In visual studio 2008 all Items in toolbox are grayed out

Question

All my controls are grayed out in the toolbox when I open a Winform Project. I have already reinstalled VS2008 and tryed all the steps indicated here, but nothing:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/8db82810-bffd-4d07-8e50-029d2a26f7be/

If it can be related when reinstalling VS2008 I had problems with the installation of .net Framework 3.5, it was complaining about .NET 2.0SP1 missing. I solved it installing .net Framework 3.5 SP1 and then VS2008. At the moment I'm trying to install .NET Framework 2.0SP1 but it doesn't work: the set up stops and shows "set up error" that's it. I don't know if the issues are related.

Answer 1

Start from scratch and try again (starting with .NET 2.0)

• .NET 2.0 (followed by SP1)
• .NET 3.0 (don't remember if this is necessary before 3.5 or not)
• .NET 3.5
• Visual Studio 2008

Answer 2

See my answer in this topic...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/198691/why-do-my-toolbox-items-disappear-in-visual-studio-2008