Reset Lightspeed Designer Toolbox

Hi guys, After installing Lightspeed 3 the toolbox components for the Lightspeed model seem to have disappeared. I've tried searching for the UI components in a few assemblies however without any luck as of yet. I've also tried reinstalling a couple of times to no avail; do you have any tips you might be able to give me to point me in the right direction as to how to get my toolbox back? Thanks!

I don't know if this will work, but it's resolved a different issue I've been having with the 3.0 beta:

After installation has completed, open a Visual Studio command prompt and type devenv /setup (return)

This will take a bit of time to run.  After this, reopen your model and see if the toolbox has reappeared.

If this does help, please let us know in case someone else runs into this problem!

You can also try right-clicking the toolbox and selecting Reset Toolbox, though be warned this will lose any other customisations you have made (e.g. snippets), so you may want to do an Export Settings first!

Also, please ensure that LightSpeed 2.2 was uninstalled first and that no 2.2 components remain in the GAC.  (3.0 does not install into the GAC.)  JD is working hard on fixing the installer (when he's not busy on the Windows Forms sample) but at the moment upgrading from 2.2 to 3.0 without doing an uninstall could easily cause nasty effects.

Hmm - unfortunately none of those worked. Nevermind; I'll wait until the next version to see if it solves any issues :)

Hmm, that's worrying.  Any info you can provide us on your environment e.g. OS version, 32/64-bit, Visual Studio service pack level, etc., just so we can try to ensure we cover this off in testing?  Thanks!

 Sure thing.

 Well to begin with I DID install it over top of Lightspeed 2.2 however later uninstalled both LS3 and LS2 to check to see if that would solve the problem which didn't - I'm not sure if that started my problem?

I'm running Windows 7 32 bit on Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

When I click on Show All on the Toolbox I can see the Lightspeed tab, it just doesn't have any components inside it (just a pointer).

I don't suppose it's just a matter of re-adding the components via the "Choose Items" menu on the Toolbox?

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for providing the environment info -- that's all pretty vanilla so I don't think that's the problem. 

Unfortunately, the way the Visual Studio designer toolkit works is rather strange: it adds the items to the toolbox procedurally.  I'm not aware of any way to select them in "Choose Items" the way it lets you do with controls.

I do suspect that having LS2 in place when you did the LS3 upgrade is the source of the problem.  Maybe the LS2 components in the GAC interfered with it finding the LS3 DLLs.  If you have the time and patience, I'd suggest uninstalling both, ensuring the GAC is clear, running devenv /setup (to make sure any cached garbage gets booted out), then installing LS3 again, then running devenv /setup again.  But I'm not hugely optimistic...

Another thing you could try is deleting your toolbox.tbd and toolboxindex.tbd files.  These will be under your AppData >  Local > Microsoft > VisualStudio > 9.0 folder (path may be slightly different on Win7, not sure).  Again you may want to back them up so as to be able to restore customisations if all goes pear-shaped, and you may need to run devenv /setup after deleting/moving them.  And again, I can't promise it will help.

 Almost fixed it! I did all of the above and now have an Entity object I can work with but nothing else. Unless this is correct for the new version?