Standard controls disappear

[Chip]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I don't see a
newsgroup for Visual Studio question. I have a program I'm writing in
VS2008, using vb.net. I have it about done but need to add a few other
controls to some forms.. I know I can get around this by manually creating
the controls, or copying an existing control, however what happened
yesterday has happened a few times and I have no idea what I'm doing to
cause it.

All of the standard controlls (combo boxes, text boxes, buttons) are missing
from the toolbox. I closed down the project and created a new one from
scratch and it's the same thing there.. doesn't seem to be related to the
project, but something in the VS environment. I found a few places online
that give some strange and unhelpful answers, I figured I would check here..

thanks for any help

 

[Chip]

found it.
right click on the toolbox and "Reset Toolbox"

in message news:%[email protected]...

 

[Dennis]

found it.
right click on the toolbox and "Reset Toolbox"

My VS2005 Toolbox icons recently got "lost". Most, but not all, appeared
as an exclamation mark in a red circle. Resetting solved this also.

I wonder what caused it in the first place?

 

[Chip]

me too.. What ever it is, I seem to do it about 3 or 4 times a year.