Windows Forms
A set of .NET Framework managed libraries for developing graphical user interfaces.
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Try Right Click on the Tookbox and select Show All.
Toolbox has no items
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cshermak
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Visual Studio 22 Windows Forms App has the following message in the Toolbox, "There are no usable controls in this group. Drag an item onto this text to add it to the toolbox." I have tried the reset toolbox and choosing items but neither worked. Also tried devenv.exe /SafeMode and /ResetSettings and that didn't work. I have Net.Core 6.0 selected and tried going back to the framework 4.8. I was also trying Blazor out and there wasn't any components there either. How do I get Visual Studio Toolbox functional again?
Windows Forms
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
A family of Microsoft suites of integrated development tools for building applications for Windows, the web and mobile devices.
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Viorel 118K Reputation points2022-01-05T17:14:16.593+00:00 Did you open the form by double-cliking it (e.g. Form1.cs) in Solution Explorer?
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Anna Xiu-MSFT 29,831 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2022-01-06T09:55:22.357+00:00 Can you share us more details such as screenshots? Have you tried to right click on Toolbox and select “Show All”?
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![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(153.6, 57.99999999999999%, 24%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3ES9%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
SeanD-9054 101 Reputation points2022-06-10T17:43:24.583+00:00 Is there still no resolution to this problem?
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![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(195.2, 28.999999999999996%, 28%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EMR%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Mark Ronollo 0 Reputation points2023-09-05T13:52:42.07+00:00 Similar issues... I started with a xaml (WPF) project, then turned on Enable Windows Forms for this project. This allowed me to add a WinForm (MDI) but when i tried to add controls like a menustrip the toolbox showed up empty.
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Mark Ronollo 0 Reputation points
2023-09-05T14:00:40.2166667+00:00 this is killing me - it would be something stupid like show all - thanks Anna!
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sha 0 Reputation points2023-09-09T21:49:16.12+00:00 -
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(208, 50%, 30%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3ENM%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Norton, Mark 0 Reputation points2024-10-27T21:12:05.3433333+00:00 Had same problem. As i restarted VS it asked if I wanted to stop debugging first. I didn't realise i was still in debug, so could be that? Fine when I restarted VS.
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