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Did you know... How to stop the Toolbox from auto-populating with items found in the solution? - #167

Another co-authored tip with a tip of the day reader.  I admit i didn't know how to do this either, but i get the advantage of asking the developer on the feature directly =)

If you have a solution with lots of projects in it, and you notice the toolbox is taking a long time scanning the solution for all possible toolbox items, you can go to Tools - Options - Windows Forms Designer - General and set AutoToolboxPopulate to false.

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Posted: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:00 AM by saraford

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jstangroome said:

Hello,

My only question with this setting is, once it is set to False, how do I selectively add components in my solution to the Toolbox?

Regards,

- Jason

# March 7, 2008 8:06 PM

Stanley said:

Sara,

Thanks for this one. I did not ever see that setting and really hate that this is set to True by default. It is annoying to have to keep closing the expanded solution stuff.

# March 10, 2008 8:13 AM

lpope said:

You would have to right-click on the toolbox and "Choose Items", select the assembly and check the controls you want to display.

The other option which I use is to apply the ToolboxItem(false) attribute to the classes you don't want automatically populated.

# March 10, 2008 8:33 AM

Goutami said:

Sara,

Thanks for your tips.

Is there a way to arrange the auto populated assemblies. In our solution we have many projects and all of them get added. It becomes hard to find the right assembly.

# March 11, 2008 5:38 PM

Greg said:

Thank you,thank you, thank you

# March 26, 2008 8:54 AM

xjb said:

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# December 29, 2008 10:53 PM
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