Question

I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point, my Visual Studio 2005 grew a group named “#13119” that I can’t delete (it even shows in the toolbox when I have a code file open – it’s the only thing in there.

Is there any way to fix this? I tried resetting the toolbox, and that didn’t help. It’s not a really big deal, but rather irksome.

Answer 1

Seems like you’ve run into this issue:
http://zinovate.com/weblog/archive/2009/01/16/38234.aspx

From the blog post:

1. Make sure you can see all of the folders on your box. We are heading to the realm of hidden files: (Under Tools –> Folder Options)

2. Close Visual Studio if it is open.

3. Go Here: C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\

4. Backup the following files in a temp folder for saftey and delete the originals.

   • toolboxIndex_reset.tbd
   • toolboxIndex.tbd
   • toolbox_reset.tbd
   • toolbox.tbd

5. Restart Visual Studio and the files will be recreated. It’ll take a few seconds for the toolbox to repopulate.