Can't add standard toolbox items to Default.aspx

Sorry if my question is asked wrong, I am just starting to learn ASP.NET in VS2008.

I try to follow several tutorials on the web (for example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730880(VS.80).aspx#wapp_topic5) to create a web page:

• Create new Web Application
• Switch to Default.aspx, Design mode
• Drop a Label from the Standard Toolbox on the page

If I pick the Label from the Standard toolbox category, I can't drop it on the page. I don't know what to do now, since I do exactly what is written in all tutorials. Am I missing something?

I can place only items picked from the HTML category in the Toolbox.

Thanks, Petr

From stackoverflow

• Sometimes design mode messes up. I usually use source mode.

  At the same time this might be a VS.NET 2008 deployment issue, too.

  Open your default.aspx page in source mode, and paste the code blow into your form element.

  <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>
  

  then try to switch design mode can you see the label ?

  can you change it's properties ?

  and what do you see when you run it ?

  And In Visual Studio.NET go to "Help / About Microsoft Visual Studio", can you see Microsoft Visual Web Developer

  If all these questions has negative answers, I think you should deploy Visual Studio's Microsoft Visual Web Developer feature again.

  hope this helps.

• I have found a solution, so I will answer myself:

  The problem was that one of my directories was named "C#" and the '#' character makes all the problems. I was not able to add controls and I couldn't see manually added controls in the Design mode as ScarletGarden sugests. In other words, '#' must not be in the soluton path.

• Wow Thanks, i had the same problem ;)

  John Saunders : @Frans: I see you're new here. You should read the faq that's linked at the top of each page. This is a Q&A site. Unlike a discussion forum, we only ask questions and add answers, and respond with comments. What you added as an answer should have been a comment response to the Feb 28 answer from petrv.