Visual Studio 2010 toolbox controls disabled or inactive

Question

I am trying to fix this from last two 2 or 3 days but failed. VS 2010 toolbox in asp application development(design mode or source) is not showing all controls(showing html

Answer 1

This worked for me..

How to completely reset the Toolbox and enable Visual Studio to rebuild it from scratch

1. Close Visual Studio;

2. Open the "c:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0" (Windows 7) folder and remove all the .TBD files;

3. Run the "regedit" tool. For this click the "Run" item in the Start menu and type "regedit" without quotation marks;

4. Find the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ToolboxControlsInstaller_AssemblyFoldersExCache" and "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ToolboxControlsInstallerCache" keys;

5. Remove everything from these keys leaving them empty;

6. Run Visual Studio again and wait until it recreates all items in the Toolbox.