When starting Visual Studio 2010, it would hang for about 30 seconds trying to load the toolbox. I found this solution online and it worked for me:
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http://michaelcrump.net/fixing-a-broken-toolbox-in-visual-studio-2010-sp1
I was recently running into a situation where every time I opened Visual Studio 2010 SP1, the following message would appear for about 60 seconds or so:
“Loading toolbox content from package Microsoft.VisualStudio.IDE.Toolbox.ControlInstaller.ToolboxInstallerPackage
‘{2C98B35-07DA-45F1-96A3-BE55D91C8D7A}'”
After finally get fed up with the issue, I started researching it and decided that I’d share the steps that I took to resolve it below:
- I first made a complete backup of my registry.
- I then removed the following key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftVisualStudio
10.0Packages{2c298b35-07da-45f1-96a3-be55d91c8d7a}] - I went to the following directory: C:UsersYour Name HereAppDataLocalMicrosoftVisualStudio10.0 and created a folder called bk and moved the .tbd files to that folder (they are hidden so you will have to show all files). I then removed the .tbd files in the root directory.
- I then launched Visual Studio 2010 SP1 again and it recreated those files and the problem was gone.
Anyways, I hope this helps someone with a similar problem. I created this blog partially for myself but it is always nice to help my fellow developer.
Thanks for reading.