Toolbox issue for RDLC in design mode VS2008

Question

I am attempting to design an RDLC report, however my toolbox is filled with about 10 "Textbox" controls and an odd, empty #13119 control group. I can find no other controls. I have attempted several command line switches to rebuild the VS cache, but nothing works. Do I need to point to a particular DLL to pull in the toolbox controls? Tell me I don't need to reinstall VS2008.

Answer 1

My good sense tells me that something got corrupted either in your installation.

Here's what I would try before attempting a repair (this happened recently):

I fixed this by going into my profile as follows:

C:\Documents and Settings\MYUSERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectAssemblies

There are four HIDDEN files in there that make up what is apparently the toolbox cache. If you erase them, they will be re-generated and #13119 will go back to General. As I said, these files appear to be hidden so configure the file explorer accordingly.

Second problem: my User controls disappeared from the toolbox.
I was able to fix it by going into the VS menus:

Visual Studio "Tools" menu

"Options" submenu

"Windows Form Designer" tab "General" tab Set "AutoToolboxPopulate" to "True"

Answer 2

Thanks, Vanof. this worked for me. I did find my toolbox files were not in projectassemblies subfolder. I deleted those 4 toolbox files and all the projectassemblies subfolders and all worked again.