I had a problem with Visual Studio on Windows Vista today. I was finding that Visual Studio was sitting there for an eternity with a message "Initializing Toolbox…" and it was sitting with the CPU at 100% and it was taking an eternity (in reality, never coming back).
I spent a long time on this so I thought I'd share how I got around it. I've no idea why I got into this situation.
It turned out to be related to some .TBD files that are stored in;
c:\documents and settings\username\local settings\application data\microsoft\visualstudio\8.0
In order to fix it for myself, I got rid of those TBD files (watch out, they're all hidden) and I then ran Visual Studio as another user and, having done that, captured the TBD files from that user's documents and settings folder and dropped them into my folder.
With that done, my toolbox came back - took me about 90 minutes to figure it out though :-(
Posted
Tue, Feb 7 2006 4:33 AM
by
mtaulty