There are no usable controls in this group. Drag an item onto this text to add it to the toolbox" Visual Studio 2012

Question

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..

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Right click on Toolbox, Click on "choose Items.". Restart IDE. That worked for me.

Answer 3

Right click on the Toolbox and press "Show All"

Answer 4

"There are no usable controls..." is shown when you have currently opened a file that is not designer file (eg "Form1.cs"). Once you open the designer file (eg "Form1.Designer.cs") the items should be shown again.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Just hover over the design and then press escape. A control that you had selected and not dropped is holding up memory.

Answer 7

Right click on Toolbar and select: Reset Toolbox.

MFC controls will reappear.