03.30 Stop the Toolbox from Auto-Populating from the Solution

WINDOWS

Alt,T, O

MENU

Tools | Options | Windows Forms Designer

COMMAND

Tools.Options

VERSIONS

2005, 2008, 2010

CODE

vstipTool0090

If you find that the Toolbox is taking a long time scanning a solution with a lot of projects in it, you can keep it from doing this.

Just go to Tools | Options | Windows Forms Designer, and set AutoToolboxPopulate to False.

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To display custom items when AutoToolboxPopulate is set to False, you can select Choose Items from the Toolbox context menu and add the items manually to the Toolbox.

People often set this to False accidentally. If you find your controls are not ...

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