Problems with tools

Question

Yes I have Visual Studios 2012 and I am tying to write code.  The problem I am having is that on random certain tools will bug out.  For instance all text boxes will become all laggy and when I click on them they will not show up in the properties.
 Only thing that appears is in the top right portion of the tool is a play button and when clicked it brings up the tasks.  I am sometime able to right-click the tool and access the properties that way but not always.  This is not just with
text boxes but also it has happened with labels and list boxes. 

Answer 1

Hi White54143,
Thank you for posting in MSND forum.
>>The problem I am having is that on random certain tools will bug out.
Based on your issue, could you please tell me what tool as you said?
Is it refer to the VS2012 tool or other tools?
If you said the problem is occurs in the VS2012 tool, I know that generally we can get the textbox control, label control or the listboxes control's properties such as a windows form application.
So if your issue is that you could not see the textbox's property such as an windows form application in VS2012, I suggest you could try the following suggestion to check your issue.
(1) I suggest you could try to create a simple windows form application and then add the textbox control in the design view and then click on the textbox check if you can get the property for this textbox control.
(2) I suggest you could try to open your application in VS safe mode and then check if you get see the property be showed for this textbox control.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241278(v=vs.110).aspx
(3) If this above suggestion still could not help you, maybe you will need to repair or re-install this VS2012 and then check this issue again.
If you said is not the VS2012 Tools problem, please share me more detailed message about this issue so that we will further help you.
Best Regards,
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