>I am using the book by Microsoft Press called Visual C# 2008 Step by Step by John Sharp. See page 418-419, Chapter 22.
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>I am attempting to follow the book's instrucitons to put a button on the WPF form, but the new button won't go on the form. What am I doing wrong? In fact, all of the controls in the toolbox seemed somehow shadowed or greyed out, as if they are disabled.
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>Any ideas? I am trying to learn C# as fast as I can go, but with goofy stuff like this, I do not know what to do.
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>Cecil

Hi Cecil

I just created a wpf application and dragged a button onto a form no problem in VS2008.

Could this help from http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/Vsexpressvcs/thread/31fe6c84-bf8c-411e-9f9d-2a663cf54ab7/

I was having same problem on XP and Vista. I had feeling that it had something to do with VS 2008 magically importing settings from VS 2005 C# (which I had uninstalled). I tried to reset toolbox, deleted settings file, delete dappdata folders, but VS always imported part of my previous settings.

Then I found reset command: Tools -> Import and Export Settings... -> Reset all Settings. I did that and at the same time also reseted window layout. I am not sure if the latter has anything to do with this, but now drag and drop is working.