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For a long time I thought this behavior was unique to my computer. But a few days ago a coworker informed me that his version of Visual Studio is doing the same thing. It seems that over time, for whatever unexplained reason, the toolbox icons start to go whacky.

What’s weird is that the icons for the Infragistics controls don’t have this problem. Same goes for a few other folders in the toolbox. But the Common Controls and some other control sections are affected.

The icons change every few weeks and I haven’t been able to determine a trigger yet. Anyone else had this prroblem?

This entry was posted by Chris on February 22, 2007 at 8:26 pm under Software Development. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

8 Comments

  1. John Askew says:

    Yes I have this bug appear from time to time. It’s appeared with WWF, WPF, and Windows.Forms custom UserControl applications. It’s not consistent or predictable.
    Great blog, Chris.

    March 6, 2007, 4:44 pm

  2. Fabrice says:

    Same problem here, not same icon.

    March 9, 2007, 9:50 am

  3. Bojan Sala says:

    Solution is explained in MSDN Forums (post 171125), just follow this link.

    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=171125&SiteID=1

    April 25, 2007, 3:02 am

  4. q says:

    RE: Solution is explained in MSDN Forums (post 171125), just follow this link.

    LIKE HELL!!!

    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=171125&SiteID=1

    Not Found: Forum Not Found
    The forum you requested does not exist.

    What’s Up With That Anyway???

    June 19, 2007, 6:38 pm

  5. q says:

    ok, what happened to my last comment? the situation hasn’t changed!

    this link:-
    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=171125&SiteID=1

    still yields:-
    Not Found: Forum Not Found
    The forum you requested does not exist.

    GOOD FOR NOTHING LINK!!!

    June 20, 2007, 11:52 pm

  6. q says:

    oops.

    sorry,
    remove this and last two (browser problems) :-D

    June 20, 2007, 11:56 pm

  7. Neal says:

    I get this too, though not with the green backcolor. A posible cause might be that this happens when tool groups are added to the toobar ABOVE the standard VS ones.

    July 12, 2007, 3:40 am

  8. kukac says:

    The solution is: You have to delete all *.tbd files from C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0 folder.

    Source:
    http://xman892.blogspot.com/2007/05/visual-studio-toolbox-icons-mess.html

    July 25, 2007, 1:34 am