I just started using Visual Studio 2012.
Got into the designer, added a button, but I'm unable to move it.
Am I missing something? I thought this worked extremely similar to visual c# express.
Yes you're probably missing something, the designer should move the controls using drag and drop.
I don't know if there's an option to block control (probably there is) and maybe you pressed it
Try to go in the document outline panel there you can block/unblock controls
Sorry guys! seems I had to go to Tools, HTML Designer, CSS Styling and activate "Change positioning to absolute for controls added using Toolbox, paste or drag and drop".
Not sure what the consequences are, though.
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So I'm trying to load the XAML designer in visual Studio, and it won't show up, only the source editor shows up
I use the XAML WPF designer to make a lot of decisions, as I'm not on a team and do everything myself with this program including UI design so I tried to turn it back on, so in the settings I tried to turn it on
I set it to these settings and restarted visual studio and I still can't open it, can someone please help me load the designer?
thanks
What is below your bottom bar in your screenshot? you should see the Design/XAML tabs to toggle between them, or mouse on the border to drag up the designer/xaml splitter.
My project has some form that are similar for some components: title, istruction for user, some button and label.
I maked a "base" form and, from this, I created a specific form for every functionality: I inherits from "base".
I don't understand why on inherited form, I can't resize every controls on visual designer, that I've inserted (like TextBox, Label or CustomControls, ...).
I read some messages about this problem, but I don't found a workaround.
Do you have any idea?
In older version of Visual Studio this was possible.
Now, I'm using Visual Studio 2015.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Matteo
Suddenly I can no longer see the option to show potential fixes when hovering over a squiggled item. I don't understand why this option disappeared.
Try using the shortcut.
Ctrl+.
or
Alt+Shift+F10
You want to hover over the item and hold your control key, this should display your error correction menu. If not it's most likely a settings issue, you can contact Microsoft support for quick efficient help, it's been awhile since I've dabbled in visual studio.
Here's a link to their visual studio help center. I hope you work it out!
https://www.visualstudio.com/support/
Its Not a Programming Question But about Visual studio express 2012.
Trying to create a new report in the visual studio 2012 but can not see the list of data sets, parameters etc: In general tab i am seeing this
"There are no usable controls in this group. Drag an item onto this text to add it to the toolbox"
I have searched to fixed it but not succeeded till now..
I came across this same issue today and read plenty of things such as "this is VS bug...." but the solution was much simpler than that, I just needed to stop debugging (Shift+F5).
If that doesn't work, I recommend restarting the IDE.
If this doesn't work, I guess that uninstalling VS and doing a fresh installation is the answer you're looking for. It's important to note that it's recommended to restart Windows after installing VS and before launching it.
Right click on the Toolbox and press "Show All"
Right click on Toolbox, Click on "choose Items.". Restart IDE. That worked for me.
Right click on Toolbar and select: Reset Toolbox.
MFC controls will reappear.
I also had this problem, and it turned out I was trying to open the wrong toolbox: what I was actually looking for was the 'SSIS toolbox'. If none of the other options have worked, try selecting View -> Other Windows -> SSIS Toolbox. That fixed it for me.
[I found this out from this blog by James Serra]
In VS 2015, the SSIS Toolbox is under SSIS tab, not under View.
"There are no usable controls..." is shown when you have currently opened a file that is not designer file (e.g. "Form1.cs"). Once you open the designer file (e.g. "Form1.Designer.cs") the items should be shown again.
Just hover over the design and then press escape. A control that you had selected and not dropped is holding up memory.
This happened to me, and it was because I was currently debugging. Once I ended debugging, the usable controls appeared.
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 for a project I'm working on right now. I've created a new, custom control that inherits from 'UserControl'. Now I need to add that control to another Windows Form within the same project. I thought that the IDE would place this custom control into the Toolbox (as I know it's done in the past when I was using Visual Studio 2008), however, it did not. Now, I'm unsure how to get the control added to my form correctly and/or how to make it show up as it should in the Toolbox. The "Auto Toolbox Populate" option under Tools is set to 'True', so I really don't know what else needs to happen at this point. The help of anyone who's had any experience with this would be greately appreciated. Thanks a lot!
You may first build your custom control and create a dll. Then,
Right-click on the Toolbox panel -> Select 'Choose Items' -> Go to '.NET framework components' tab in the 'Choose Toolbox Items' dialog box that appears - > Browse to the dll of your custom user control -> Click OK.
Now the user control will be displaying in your tool box.
Hope this helps...
Try this
Open Solution
Build project
Open your form
Reset the toolbox
Drag the user control from solution explorer to the toolbox
Close the toolbox and all open documents
Open toolbox then the form
User control should appear
worked for me.