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In VB.NET 2017 PRO, for my Windows app project, Toolbox > Common Controls were enabled, and dragged to form OK. But Standard controls were dimmed, and I needed Drop Down List. I did: right-click Toolbox > Reset

..now ALL controls are dimmed, and I'm dead-in-the-water.

Doug Null
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  • Have you tried a new project? Have you repaired VS? - the installer to do so is likely to be in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vs_installer.exe". – Andrew Morton Jun 29 '17 at 17:53

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'Busse' suggestions did not work.

I at least got the default tools re-enabled: 1. Restarted Windows... no effect 2. Restarted VB.NET ... no effect 3. Closed solution and opened new VB Windows app project... default tools restored! 4. Closed this new solution, and re-opened my original project... default tools are back!

Doug Null
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I've lost access to my toolbox in two situations (one being considerably more obvious and silly than the other):

  1. Application is presently running (debugging)
  2. I changed the target framework under the Application Tab (It was NET Framework 4 Client... changed it to 4.5.2) under My Project.

Option one is probably not the issue, but should it be - just stop debugging. For Option 2, the only result that was successful for me was closing everything and re-creating the application from scratch. Hopefully it is not either of those for you, but I wanted to at least point them out.

Busse
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I know this is about 2010 but it seems to be the same issue (not that there was anything definitive, there were a lot of things that people said worked for them).

One of the things that was in there that I would try since you said you already did a reset on the tool box is to add a new tab. Right click, select Add Tab, give it a name. Then once added, reset the toolbox again.

Charles May
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