I'm using Visual Studio 2005 for a project I'm working on right now. I've created a new, custom control that inherits from 'UserControl'. Now I need to add that control to another Windows Form within the same project. I thought that the IDE would place this custom control into the Toolbox (as I know it's done in the past when I was using Visual Studio 2008), however, it did not. Now, I'm unsure how to get the control added to my form correctly and/or how to make it show up as it should in the Toolbox. The "Auto Toolbox Populate" option under Tools is set to 'True', so I really don't know what else needs to happen at this point. The help of anyone who's had any experience with this would be greately appreciated. Thanks a lot!
You may first build your custom control and create a dll. Then,
Right-click on the Toolbox panel -> Select 'Choose Items' -> Go to '.NET framework components' tab in the 'Choose Toolbox Items' dialog box that appears - > Browse to the dll of your custom user control -> Click OK.
Now the user control will be displaying in your tool box.
Hope this helps...
Try this
Open Solution
Build project
Open your form
Reset the toolbox
Drag the user control from solution explorer to the toolbox
Close the toolbox and all open documents
Open toolbox then the form
User control should appear
worked for me.
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I created a new C# WPF app project in visual studio 2017 and added a user control to the project. Now when I try to add that user control to my main window it doesnt show up in the toolbox.
Ive checked the AutoToolboxPopulate property and it is set to true and Ive rebuilt. Ive tried closing and opening the project and Visual Studio.
What do I need to do to get my controls to show up in the toolbox?
You can try to add it to the toolbox manually
In the toolbox, select the WPF Components. At this time, click Browse, find the dll, add it, and click OK.
I accidentally made a normal user control instead of a WPF user control.
I want to add my custom control into the VS Toolbox. But I need it to appear in toolbox always when a new project is open. How can I do that?
Create a VSIX package to install the control
You can create a VSIX package to distribute and install user controls to toolbox.
To do so, you can create a VSIX Project and add a Windows Forms ToolBox Control to the project. The control is decorated with a ProvideToolboxControl attribute which determines the tab that the control will appear in. You can pass an existing or a new tab name to the attribute:
[ProvideToolboxControl("Some Tab Name", false)]
public partial class ToolboxControl1 : UserControl
You can also fill the information in .vsixmanifest file. Then when you build the project, it creates a .vsix package file in \bin\debug folder of the project which you can distribute this file. If you run the file, it installs the control in visual studio toolbox.
More information:
Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Forms Toolbox Control
Note:
VS 2013 has a Windows Forms ToolBox Control Project Template under extensibility group of new project window and you can use it to create the project. Starting from VS 2015 you should use VSIX Project template.
Manually Add Control to Toolbox
You can copy the dll of your control to a permanent location. Then right click on ToolBox, for example on general tab, then click Choose Items ... then in Choose Toolbox Items window in .Net Framework Components Tab, click Browse... button and open the dll of your control. Then in the components list, check the control and click OK button. The control will appear under the selected tab. You also can add your own tab simply by right click and choose Add Tab.
I entered in work with Telerik RadControls. In web.config telerik set in many places. But can anyone give me algorithm how in new project asp.net (web application) in Visual Studio 2010 add dll? (dll library I have)
If you want to add the items to the toolbox so you can do Drag And Drop, do this:
1). Open Visual Studio
2). Open a new project (or existing)
3). Find your "toolbar" window in VS.
4). Right click in the tool bar white space (somewhere where there are no existing controls)
5). Click "Add Tab"
6). Name this tab "Telerik"
7). Now, right click again, and hit "Choose items"
8). A Window will pop open, you can select your Telerik DLL, and it will fill the tool box with
all the controls you need.
You can then Drag and Drop these controls to your pages.
I hope this helps.
If you have Telerik installed on your Visual Studio machine, but it is not currently part of your project, the easiest way to add the proper Telerik DLLs and web.config entries would be to go to the Telerik menu at the top of your Visual Studio, and select Convert to Telerik Web Site.
You can try with this article
http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/resources/step-by-step.aspx
I'm creating in a Windows forms application using VS2008. I need to add ActiveX controls to it. But unable to do so.
this example is what i try to achieve LINK sub topic "Interop with ActiveX Controls"
The following are the steps provided to achieve it, but i cant find the below mentioned options in my Visual studio.
(1) When you have a form displayed, right-click the Toolbox and select "Choose Items".
(2) Click the "COM Components" tab.
(3) Locate your ActiveX control and tick the box for it anc click
"OK".
(4) Now it should appear on the toolbox; drag and drop it onto your
form and set its properties.
Open the windows form file that you want to add an Activex control.
Right click on any tool on the tool box.
That menu contains "Choose Items".
Click on it and you can see the COM Components tab on the pop up window.
Select any COM component that you want to add.
Then it appears on the tool box.
Drag and drop it on to the form.
I want to create a CustomControl in toolbox in my C# application
If your component is within the project, you can have them automatically added to the toolbox. Go to: Tools -> Options -> Windows Forms Designer and enable the "AutoToolboxPopulate" option.
If it's in a separate solution, you can build the control library, and drag and drop on the toolbox to add the components.