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If you close the Toolbox (from where you drag various controls), it could be a monumental task trying to find it again. In fact, I still don't know where it is in Visual Studio 2008. Probably getting an earful of constructive feedback, in Visual Studio 2010, it’s at least made a little more prominent. You can find it at View | Toolbox . If you’re good at memorizing shortcuts, Ctrl+Alt+X works in both versions.

There’re times when you may need to manually edit a solution file. It helps to understand what happens behind the scenes. Here’s what changes (in .sln) as you add a project to a solution. ... Project(“{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}”) = “MyFolder”, “MyFolder\NewProject.csproj”, “{FD47D76F-4A5A-4CAD-8CD5-6E131DBC9A34}” EndProject ... Global  ...  GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution   ...   {FD47D76F-4A5A-4CAD-8CD5-6E131DBC9A34}.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU   {FD47D76F-4A5A-4CAD-8CD5-6E131DBC9A34}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU   {FD47D76F-4A5A-4CAD-8CD5-6E131DBC9A34}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU   {FD47D76F-4A5A-4CAD-8CD5-6E131DBC9A34}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU   ...  EndGlobalSection  ... EndGlobal