I was studying for .NET 4 exam and running through one of the lab sessions and it needed me to add a button and dropdown box but then suddenly the toolbox was not coming up.
I was searching around and couldn’t find out how to add it back in, I also couldn’t understand where it would be.
Finally I found out how to add the toolbox back in.
Go to the VIEW menu
Click on Toolbox
then once again you can enjoy adding buttons and dropdowns to your hearts content
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It wasn’t in the view menu but ctrl+alt+x worked for me thank you 🙂
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thanks for this — the toolbox was missing and it also was not present on the View menu. Luckily I saw the CTRL+ALT+X option on your screenshot, and that did bring it back.
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thanks for the short cut… even i dont have the toolbox option but i saw the CTRL+ALT+X option it was very helpful 😀
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Thanks, CTRL-ALT-X worked for me as well. I was just about ready to uninstall VS10 and start over.
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ctrl+alt+X worked for me. Thanks.
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ctrl+alt+X— Great Idea, I can not see Toolbox under View menu.
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Thanxxxxx
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one more for Ctrl Alt X
thank you!!!!!
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I can’t see Toolbox in view but fortunately I say Ctrl + Alt + X, Thanks 😀
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on visual studio c# 2010 go to view and point to other windows the you will see toolbox option…..
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CTR ALT X WORKED FOR ME. BIG UPS
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This is a great post.. for toolbox VS 2010 cannot be viewed on first open.
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