Shawn Knight
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Shawn Knight
asked on 07 Jul 2010, 04:14 PM
Hi,
I am using Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and have just installed RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2010. There have been no previous installations of RadControls or Visual Studio on this machine.
After installing RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2010 I noticed that there are two of every RadControl in the toolbox.
Why is this and is there a way to fix it?
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Hi Shawn,
This happens because the RadControls installer actually contains three different assemblies, built targeting specific .NET Framework versions. Two of them (located in the bin20 and bin35 folders respectively) are applicable for use in Visual Studio 2008 and get registered to the ToolBox. The Visual Studio 2008 ToolBox does not provide an interface to filter the items depending on the TargetFramework, which results in the items duplicated. FYI, the ToolBox item filtering is fixed in VS2010.
You can easily have only one RadControls group if you don't use the other. To do that, please, uninstall RadControls, then start the installer again and click the Custom button when asked to choose the setup type. In the next screen, deselect the .NET 20 Components feature (providing you'd use only the .NET35 controls) and continue with the installation.
Let me know if that helps.
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Erjan Gavalji
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This happens because the RadControls installer actually contains three different assemblies, built targeting specific .NET Framework versions. Two of them (located in the bin20 and bin35 folders respectively) are applicable for use in Visual Studio 2008 and get registered to the ToolBox. The Visual Studio 2008 ToolBox does not provide an interface to filter the items depending on the TargetFramework, which results in the items duplicated. FYI, the ToolBox item filtering is fixed in VS2010.
You can easily have only one RadControls group if you don't use the other. To do that, please, uninstall RadControls, then start the installer again and click the Custom button when asked to choose the setup type. In the next screen, deselect the .NET 20 Components feature (providing you'd use only the .NET35 controls) and continue with the installation.
Let me know if that helps.
Kind regards,
Erjan Gavalji
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Shawn Knight
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answered on 08 Jul 2010, 03:27 PM
Actually I am not sure that is the same issue. The issue I was having is that under both the .Net 20 and .Net 35 tool box categories each control was listed twice. So if you expanded any of the RadControl categories (and sorted alphabetically) you would see for example: "RadDock" twice in a row.
Another interesting issue we had with the tool box after the install of Q1 was that one of our installs resulted in an empty toolbox. The RadControl categories were there but the listed no controls.
The solution to both these issues was staring us in the face however. All that was required was right clicking on the tool box and clicking on "Reset Toolbox".
Thanks
Another interesting issue we had with the tool box after the install of Q1 was that one of our installs resulted in an empty toolbox. The RadControl categories were there but the listed no controls.
The solution to both these issues was staring us in the face however. All that was required was right clicking on the tool box and clicking on "Reset Toolbox".
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Hi Shawn,
Yes, we noticed that sometimes the VS2010 toolbox does not get updated automatically. Unfortunately we haven't been able to identify the exact circumstances in order to implement a decent solution. In most of the cases a toolbox Reset fixes the problem though (as you've found yourself).
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Erjan Gavalji
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Yes, we noticed that sometimes the VS2010 toolbox does not get updated automatically. Unfortunately we haven't been able to identify the exact circumstances in order to implement a decent solution. In most of the cases a toolbox Reset fixes the problem though (as you've found yourself).
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Erjan Gavalji
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Dave Galligher
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answered on 14 Feb 2012, 12:27 AM
I've noticed the following behavior after performing these steps (the Reset Toolbox option):
Controls that were there before are now gone, items like the RadTextBox, Rad Button controls, etc. are GONE. Controls that are broken up individual groups appear multiple times such as RadThemeManager, I've tried this now four times and now I have four instances in the toolbox - each time I reset it, it adds it again and again and again.... Groups this happens in: RadControls for WinForms - Themes 2011 Q3, RadControls for WinForms - Dialogs 2011 Q3, RadControls for WinForms - Data Controls 2011 Q3, RadControls for WinForms 2011 Q3, RadControls for WinForms - Containers 2011 Q3
This is incredibly frustrating.
Controls that were there before are now gone, items like the RadTextBox, Rad Button controls, etc. are GONE. Controls that are broken up individual groups appear multiple times such as RadThemeManager, I've tried this now four times and now I have four instances in the toolbox - each time I reset it, it adds it again and again and again.... Groups this happens in: RadControls for WinForms - Themes 2011 Q3, RadControls for WinForms - Dialogs 2011 Q3, RadControls for WinForms - Data Controls 2011 Q3, RadControls for WinForms 2011 Q3, RadControls for WinForms - Containers 2011 Q3
This is incredibly frustrating.
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Hello Dave,
I am sorry to hear you are experiencing such issues. While a few customers have reported the issue, we are still not able to get a solid repro.
It would be most helpful if you could send us a Visual Studio activity log. You start Visual Studio with logging enabled by using the following command line:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /log C:\Temp\VisualStudioActivity.log
Having done that, you can try to reproduce the issue and then send us the log.
If you have any concerns about privacy, you can send us your log via a support ticket rather than the public forums.
Best Regards,
Andrey
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I am sorry to hear you are experiencing such issues. While a few customers have reported the issue, we are still not able to get a solid repro.
It would be most helpful if you could send us a Visual Studio activity log. You start Visual Studio with logging enabled by using the following command line:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /log C:\Temp\VisualStudioActivity.log
Having done that, you can try to reproduce the issue and then send us the log.
If you have any concerns about privacy, you can send us your log via a support ticket rather than the public forums.
Best Regards,
Andrey
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Ronny
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answered on 25 Oct 2012, 07:11 PM
Having the same problem and it's duplicating up to 4 times for each control. I have tried doing a reset and nothing..
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Hello Ronny,
Can you check whether the following forum thread addresses the issue on your side?
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/vs-extensions/multiple-radcontrols-entries-in-the-toolbox.aspx
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Petar
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Can you check whether the following forum thread addresses the issue on your side?
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/vs-extensions/multiple-radcontrols-entries-in-the-toolbox.aspx
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Petar
the Telerik team
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