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Tuesday, August 4, 2015 7:24 PM | 1 vote
I installed Visual Studio 2015 Pro and the Toolbox is missing. I tried Reset Toolbox and it did nothing. I tried /uninstall /force and it hangs even when run as administrator. I previously had the RC version installed. The toolbox issue started months ago after I installed the Ajax Control Toolkit and other controls from DevExpress. I was able to get the toolbox back for Visual Studio 2013 Pro after doing a system restore which is no longer an option for me.
I tried /SafeMode which gave the Toolbox controls back but it turned off Server Explorer, so I am back to square one.
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Thursday, August 6, 2015 5:36 AM ✅Answered | 2 votes
Hi RayADub,
Please open Windows Explorer, and navigate to <Visual Studio Installation Path>\Common7\IDE (by default is C:\Program Files \Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE)
And then run the following commands:
a.devenv.exe /resetskippkgs, it will clear all SkipLoading tags that have been added to VSPackages by users who want to avoid loading problem VSPackages.
b.devenv.exe /resetsettings, it will restore Visual Studio default settings. Optionally resets the settings to the specified .vssettings file.
c.devenv.exe /resetuserdata, it will take a couple of minutes to run as Visual Studio cleans up and sets itself back to its original state. You may open Task Manager at this point to check whether the devenv.exe process is still running. After it has completed running, you can restart Visual Studio.
Besides, if the /uninstall /force doesn't work, please try to use Fix It, it will fix the problems that program cannot be uninstalled, I know VS2015 is not listed there, but someone fixed old VS2015 issue by using this tool so you may give this tool a test.
If you still cannot remove the RC version totally, I need more information to troubleshoot, please use http://aka.ms/vscollect to gather the installation logs. After using it, you will find vslogs.cab from %temp% folder. Please upload the file to https://skydrive.live.com/ and share the link here.
Best Regards,
Jiayi Li
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015 7:55 AM | 3 votes
Hi RayADub,
Could you press the CTRL+ALT+X key to show the toolbox window?
If you couldn’t open the toolbox window, please try the following steps:
1. Close Visual Studio;
2. Open the “c:\Users\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0” folder and remove all the .TBD files;
3. Start regedit;
4. Find the “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ToolboxControlsInstaller_AssemblyFoldersExCache” and “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ToolboxControlsInstallerCache” keys;
5. Remove everything from these keys leaving them empty, before you removing it, please remember to back up the keys;
6. Run Visual Studio again and wait until it recreates all items in the toolbox.
If the above doesn’t help, >> The toolbox issue started months ago after I installed the Ajax Control Toolkit and other controls from DevExpress.
Does this issue occur in the RC version?
If it is, to make sure whether it is related to the remained components of RC vesion, please use /uninstall /force to remove the shared components of RC totally.
If the /uninstall /force doesn’t help, To make sure whether it is related to the DevExpress tools, please uninstall them to see whether this issue occur again.
Best Regards,
Jiayi Li
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015 1:46 PM
The toolbox window is there but there are no controls in it. If I create a new web site or new web application the toolbox window has all the controls. When I open an existing web site there are no controls in the toolbox. The same web site has the controls if I open it with VS2013.
Months ago I uninstalled all DevExpress controls. Deleting the tbd files and registry keys did not help. The issue did occur with RC.
When I do /uninstall /force I get the splash screen and it never does anything else. I let it run 24 hours and it did nothing.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 9:06 PM | 1 vote
1. Open VS 2015
2. Click Window\Reset Window Layouts
This worked for me