How do you remove items from the "Choose Toolbox Items" dialog?

[emaduddeen]

Hi Everyone,

Can you tell me how do you remove items from the "Choose Toolbox Items" dialog?

I uninstalled some WinForms controls but the installer did not remove the items in that dialog.

Thanks.

Truly,
Emad

 

[jebenson]

I believe you need to unregister the component's DLL in Windows.

The following works for Win XP and Vista, not sure about 7:

1) open a command prompt
2) Type: regsvr32 /u <FileName.dll>
3) Press the Enter key

Note: <FileName.dll> is the name of the DLL file you want to unregister. If the command prompt is not active in the directory that the DLL is in, you will need to either navigate to that directory with the command prompt, or include the full path in <FileName.dll>.


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[Bluejay07]

If you follow jebenson's comments, make sure you run command prompt as administrator.

I know that you can't register files without running as admin, so I'm assuming the reverse is true for unregistering.

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[Sorwen]

Note that if you unregistered an item it should cause problems for the program that put it there in the first place and shared resources. If it is there it generally is stupid isn't a good idea to just remove it.

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[emaduddeen]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the replies.

I tried to locate the dll files and the installer removed them which I was hoping for, but the references to the dll files still exist inside Visual Studio.

I can uncheck them but they are still listed in the dialog.

Hopefully you can help me remove these.

Truly,
Emad