Stop the Toolbox from Auto-Populating from the Solution
Menu: Tools -> Options -> Windows Forms Designer
Versions: 2008,2010
Published: 9/20/2010
Code: vstipTool0090
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If you find that the Toolbox is taking a long time scanning a solution with a lot of projects in it, you can keep it from doing this. Just go to Tools -> Options -> Windows Forms Designer and set AutoToolboxPopulate to false:
To display custom items when this is set to false, you can select "Choose Items" from the Toolbox context menu and add the item manually to the toolbox:
Comments
Anonymous
September 19, 2010
I am a pretty seasoned developer, but sometimes - its the little things that make my day! This has bugged me for years, but not enough to research it. Thanks for the tip!Anonymous
September 21, 2010
Happy to help! :)Anonymous
March 24, 2011
Mine keeps coming back no matter what i do. Turned Autopopulate to false, manually deleted each tab and still after a studio restart they keep coming back. where are these stored, got to be in some file somewhere. Any clues to my next step?