Toolbox Icons screwed up

Hey everyone

Recently when I opened Visual Studio 2005 I noticed that all of my icons in the tool box are screwed up. Now this isn't the end of the world, but I have noticed that alot of times I am fuzzy on the name of the control over what that dumb little icon looked like. Has anyone see this before Any ideas on how to fix it

Thanks

Kenzie

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Toolbox Icons screwed up

AnnNeedsHelp
That's great thanks, this has been messing with my head for weeks now.
BubbaHasty

found a solution that doesn't reset your toolbox ...

1. ensure you have the toolbox displayed before proceeding

2. goto 'tools' > 'import & export settings'

3. select 'import selected environment settings' then click 'next'

4. select 'no just import my new settings overwriting my current settings' then click 'next'

5. select 'my settings' > 'current.vssettings' then click 'next'

6. select 'all settings' > 'general settings' > 'toolbox' if not already checked

7. click 'finish' and your done !
SDX2000
It happens to me once in a while also. Just right click the toolbox and select "Reset Toolbox" from the context menu to get the icons back.
best49erfan
I did a "Reset Toolbox" and got my icons back, however after that VS has stopped populating the General tap with my project components.
How do I get VS to start adding my custom components to the toolbox again
Leo Ng
That works
Thanks.
Mike Teperman
Resetting the toolbox is not a solution. You loose any custom settings or controls you happen to have put into the toolbox and your forced to put them back in.
KippV
As far as I know, your project's components should never have been automatically placed in the "General" group to begin with. If they were, that sounds like a bug. The behavior you're seeing now is correct.

Regarding the problem you initially mentioned, no one has actually said what is meant by the icons being "screwed up", but if you're referring to the condition in which several toolbox items end up with the same icon, I can tell you it's fixed for VS 2008 (but not VS 2005 SP1). I think you should be able to avoid the problem in the future if you make sure that the toolbox is shown as soon as you start VS. (You can hide it afterwords, but it needs to be initialized once.) Let me know if that doesn't help.

-Josh
CSWong
Click over here: http://xman892.blogspot.com/2007/05/visual-studio-toolbox-icons-mess.html
markand

Thank you.
DKB
Thanks for the tip.
AtMyWittsEnd
Follow up: I changed the AutoToolboxPopulate property to true and that created a tab for each project in my solution. However I still don't get why the "General" tab is not populated as it used to be.
Rhubarb
Happened to me as well. Will try the second solution the next time it happens, since I've added stuff to the toolbox.
Toolbox Icons screwed up

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