Telerik + Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox = madness issues

Question

Has anyone found a solution to any of these problems:

• When I enter any development mode in Visual Studio 2010 (WPF, EDMX, Silverlight, Reporting, etc.), I see a message in the status bar, for example, Loading toolbox content from package Microsoft.VisualStudio.IDE.Toolbox.ControlInstaller.ToolboxInstallerPackage '{2C98B35-07DA-45F1-96A3-BE55D91C8D7A}'... This blocks the VS about every minute.

• Telerik toolbars have many duplicate controls.

• The toolbar does not display items when expanded. I think this is because there are too many controls in it.

I believe that all these problems should be connected. I think that when # 1 happens, duplicate controls are added to some toolbars, which ultimately leads to # 3.

I’m tired of it, and I’m quite sure that it is caused by things Telerik "Rad". I have 2 dev machines that never did this until I installed some rad controls.

Answer 1

I have already come across this before, and the problem was easily fixed, but I think that it is on Telerik that a permanent solution will be found.

It seems that when updating controls it supports instances of installations (different versions) Example

I would suggest that if you installed a lot of updates, the toolbar itself experienced some kind of problem regarding the variety of versions and, thus, led to all the problems described there. It also does not cost anything when new versions appear (Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 releases), if you update tools inside VS, your computer might still think that the old version is installed on your computer. (Go to the "Add / Remove" page of the program from the control panel and see if the latest version is installed, for example here ).

When I fixed this problem on my computer, I uninstalled the old version (which was the Q1 release). This freed up all the updates that I installed for Telerik during this quarter. Then I installed the Q2 release (which was the most recent download from the site) and just downloaded my applications and converted them to the latest version when prompted.

Kill me with the update if you try to reinstall the latest version with Telerik.

Answer 2

Take a look at this post I made on the Telerik website (September 7 post near the bottom)

In short, it might be something else that causes the Toolbox cache initialization process to fail (in my case, it was the WCF RIA Services Toolkit, April 2011). As soon as I got rid of it, everything returned to swimming. I was fortunate that I had the RIA toolkit installed for testing, so I could remove it without affecting my workflow. Not sure what you would do if you need the RIA toolkit, though ...

In any case, it's worth a peek!

Oh, and I totally agree that the problem is time consuming. I got to the point that I had to wait 5 minutes every day for the IDE to get ready ... that wasted for many hours in the past few months!

Answer 3

I know this is an old question, but maybe my answer can help people with the same problem ...

I recently installed Telerik RadControls 2012 Q2 for Silverlight and ran into the same problem. Each time I opened a new instance of Visual Studio, the Telerik controls were duplicated until the toolbar crashed. Looking for an answer, I stumbled upon the forum Spide said. In my case, the reason for this was the WCF RIA Services Toolkit (September 2011). Unfortunately, I need a toolkit, so removing it was not possible.

After another grueling marathon of Google search queries, I came across another solution that does not require removal of the WCF RIA Services toolkit:

Note: These steps include removing keys from the registry. Serious problems can arise if you incorrectly modify the registry using the registry editor or using another method. Change the registry at your own risk.

1) Open your registry and delete the following keys:

The Toolbox registry subkey under HKLM \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Microsoft SDK \ Silverlight \ v4.0 \ AssemblyFoldersEx \ Ria Services v1.0 Silverlight Libraries

The Toolbox registry subkey under HKLM \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Microsoft SDK \ Silverlight \ v5.0 \ AssemblyFoldersEx \ Ria Services v1.0 Silverlight Libraries

When you are working with a 64-bit machine, you will need to insert the WOW6432Node after the software in these paths.

2) Now find the keys ToolboxControlsInstallerCache and ToolboxControlsInstaller_AssemblyFoldersExCache in the HKCU \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ VisualStudio \ 10.0 section and delete them.

3) Open Visual Studio and reset the toolbar.

After completing these steps, everything worked as expected, and there were no duplicate controls in the toolbar.

Answer 4

In Visual Studio 2010, go to Tools → Add-ons Manager and unchecked the “startup” checkbox for “Telerik OpenAccess” and “Telerik OpenAccess DSW”, and the lag in startup disappeared. There may be other Telerik add-ons that you should disable to find out if this helps. In this case, I have OpenAccess installed, but in fact it is not used.