I have recently installed Visual Studio 2022. I see that the options in the Toolbox is not getting highlighted and is not clickable. Please help to fix.
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The only way I can reproduce this is if I right click in the toolbox window and click "List All". That will show all the controls, including the ones listed under "Standard", which are also greyed out for me. If you uncheck "List All", there is no "Standard" section, leading me to believe that this is the case for you. Thus:
- Check if you have "List All" checked when you right click in the toolbox and uncheck it.
- Expand the "Common Controls" or the "All Windows Forms" section and your items should be activated again.
You could also leave List All checked and just expand the other sections, but the toolbox will be quite cluttered with List All checked.
Toolbox gets activated only if the webpage(.html,.htm etc) or the designer view is open.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/toolbox?view=vs-2022
Toolbox appears in conjunction with designer views, such as the designer view of a XAML file or a Windows Forms App project. Toolbox displays only those controls that can be used in the current designer.
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