I am trying to create a custom control and put three of them on the main form of the project. I have the control made, but I can't figure out how to add it to the toolbox.
Note: I am using Visual Studio 2010 EXPRESS EDITION. I don't know if this matters for something like this, but I thought I should probably mention it.
How do I inherit an existing control (user control) and add it to the ToolBox?
View 2 RepliesI know how to get a user control into the toolbox, but is there a way to get it to be part of vb.NET's startup as a permanent control? In other words, if I start vb.NET and begin a new project, it would be nice that the custom control is already available without having to load its dll each time I start a new project.
View 3 RepliesI am building an application in VS2008 (VB.NET) that contains several user controls. When I was developing under VS2005, all the components in my application would load into the toolbox so I could access them during design.
Since upgrading to VS2008, however, those application-based components do not load, and I cannot access the user controls I have built.
1. Exit Visual Studio
2. Navigate to %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0
3. Delete the TBD files found there (these are hidden by default)
4. Re-start Visual Studio and open your WPF application - the toolbox will now be reinitialized
and that worked for one session, but it did not get preserved -- when I shut down and came back into VB.NET, the application-based controls no longer loaded.
Is there some setting in VS2008 that I am missing? Or is there another step to getting the app-based controls to reappear each time I load the development files?
Does VS 2008 have a control availible like the toolbox control from within the studio? I've looked through the list in the toolbox for choose items and am not finding it, but since I don't know what it would be called I might be over looking it.
View 3 RepliesMy project, which has 2 user controls in it- does not display the user controls in the toolbox. Has anyone else had this problem, and/or know of a solution?I have tried adding other user controls to the project, they do not appear in the toolbox.I have tried creating a new project, and it's user controls DO show up in the toolbox. If I add the user controls from the first project to the new project -THEY show up in the toolbox for that project.So it must be something tweaked out with the project right?
View 14 RepliesI have to develop a software able to perform some scientific calculations in the field mechanical engineer; to be more precise, this software must be able to predict the torsional vibration behaviour of crankhsfts and drive-trains.To build my model I need a library of pre-configured elements (organised in a toolbox), that I can drag&drop in my working area and then link together properly to build the model itself.Also the load cases and the input data should be organised in a toolbox as pre-configured elements that I can chose and fill-in accordingly.Here my questions:
1. how can I develop such a toolbox?
2. how can I develop my working area?
Many commercial software are organised like that but I have no idea how to do it.
I 'am using Visual Studio 2008 Version 9.0.30729.1 SP with Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1..Every time I try to add a control to the ToolBox I receive the following message:"The following assemblies are installed SDK assemblies but could not be shown in the customize toolbox dialog because they are missing one or more components. Please make sure that all necessary libraries are available.
View 1 RepliesHow to add an IDE toolbox control, I came up with? I want it to appear in the list when I click on toolbox and let me drag it onto the form. Is there a tutorial or video somewhere I could read?
View 10 RepliesThis illustration shows how I'm trying to get 2 vb.net user controls into the toolbox to use on a c# form. In toolbox Select Items I see the items checked but clicking OK or Reset doesn't make them appear in the toolbox. How do I do that? somehow the controls appeared in the Toolbox, but they're greyed out and unavailable.
View 3 RepliesI have created a series of custom user controls for a wizard interface that I am making. Each user control represents one step in the wizard and really shouldn't be used outside of the wizard. The thing that is bugging me is that each wizard step user control shows up in the toolbox of components to insert into a form.
Is it possible to hide a user control from the toolbox? Better yet is it possible to hide a user control from other classes not in the same namespace of an assembly? Is this a good approach or should I think of a different approach?
How can I add winsock Control in my toolbox?
View 1 RepliesI'm having trouble adding a new control to my toolbox.I downloaded the projected and extracted.I the went to the VB toolbox, rightclicked the mouse button and selected choose items. I then clicked the browse button. I selected the folder I had extracted to and then went to bin/debug/menucontroltest.exe.
View 2 RepliesI have created 2 WPF control which reside in the same folder and i want to add one control to the other.
The controls are added in a Win Forms project.
the thing is that in a custom Win Forms control I can see my two WPF controls in the toolbox but in the WPF designer I cannot see any WPF controls.[code]...
I know you can add a control or collection of controls to the VB IDE toolbox by adding a dll file to it.Is there an example of how to create a tool somewhere. I would like to be able to design a skin and add it as a toolbox item.
View 3 RepliesI am using VS2008 and dont know about wpf. I would like to add a control that will dock to the left side of the MDI container, and have the same functionality as the tool box (be able to pin, and mouse over to show)in this i will be adding a treeview control that will be used as a menu.
View 2 RepliesIn the com component list there is no Microsoft Char Control selection. How can I find it.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to get a heads up on converting a vb6 project to vb.net. I can not find the sstab control in the toolbox, does it have a different name ?
View 9 RepliesI have read and played with code that streams output to a richtextbox but that is runningit from cmd.exe but I run kix32 programs like anything.kix using commmand line kix32 c:anything.kix and it can be run from a *.cmd file as well.
why havent' experts made a toolbox item/control that is say called console? like they seem to have many others dialogbox - browse box etc...? It has been years since VB.net has been out. why why dont they make one??huh? I have looked all over net and it ant no easy job either.
I mean all the code i see makes it very difficult you have to be an expert just to make the coding. Is there some class or something that maybe a beginner/intermediate might be able to tackle..
I just want the command line that is initiated by the kix32 engine to be streamed to my richtextbox in my gui vb.net program
Is there anything like shapes control of VB 6.0, in Vb.Net? I need to draw lines etc. at design time. But I could not find any shapes control in the toolbox.
View 2 RepliesI want to create a visual studio-Toolbox like control in my windows application. How can I do that?
View 1 RepliesI made a custom control that is a 15x15 grid designed to show a tiled map. Inside I have a class that inherits from pictureBox. The problem comes when I try to place my DLL inside the toolbox. When I click "browse" and select my DLL to import it simply import my class inheriting pictureBox instead of the whole package.
Here is a picture of my files. Grid.vb is the control, clsTile is the pictureBox class and the other one is irrelevant. [URL]
Does anyone know an easy way to produce a "Common Tasks" menu similar to the one in My Computer, Control Panel etc..I can't seem to find a control in the toolbox and it would be insanely useful for the app I'm currently writing.
View 4 RepliesI have the following references in my project:
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, .ReportSource, .Shared, .Web, .Windows.Forms
I also tick crystalReportViewer in .NET Framework components, but the crystalReportViewer control is not get added up in the toolbox.
I made a customized TextBox that I'd like to permanently add to the toolbox. But when I close the project that I created it in, my new control also disappears and I have to copy/paste or import the class-code every time I want to use it. Is there a way to get the control in the toolbox "forever"?I tried to enclose the class in a "Namespace CustomClasses" statement and changed the root namespace in the project properties to "CustomClasses", but nothing of what I tried is permanent. I prefer to store my classes in a "real" root namespace, in the same root as the microsoft and system namespaces.
View 4 RepliesI've been reading up on this and it seems I'm not understanding something to make this work.It seems that the ToolBoxBitmap() isn't picking up the image I specify (which is a 16x16 bmp and is part of the project) and I'm at a loss to why.
View 3 RepliesI'm interested in a description of the step-by-step process for creating a custom control and making it available in the toolbox with vb2008. Just for an example, suppose one wanted to have an array of 9 buttons in a 3x3 pattern already labeled 1-9 as a control usable from the toolbox just as a single button or label etc. is, so that one could drag it from the toolbox to the form or a groupbox.
View 1 Repliescustom control, by inheriting the Label class like this
<ToolboxBitmap(GetType(CButton), "img_20_16px.png")> _
Public Class CButton
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Label
[code].....
I am using VBExpress 2008 and trying to use of graphs. I tried to locate Ms Chart control in Chose Toolbox Items but I am not finding that.
View 3 RepliesThe particular control I'm trying to figure out is a UserControl. When I design it as a separate DLL, add it to the Toolbox, then drag it onto the form, it shows up. But when I declare the instance in Form_Load & add it to the Forms Controls, it doesn't show up. (Note that I'm dealing with two different UserControls here as what I don't really want to do is create it as a DLL. It's specific to this project & that's where I want it-in this project. I suppose I could create it as a separate project in this solution, but again-that's not what I want to do. I can add a UserControl to this project, but I can't seem to *use* it. Frustrating.)
Dim X As New Class3
X.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(96, 74)
X.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(5, 5)
Me.Controls.Add(X)
Me.Refresh()
Class3 inherits System.Windows.forms.UserControl, and contains a label.OK, found that I can make the UserControl appear by setting the BackColor (X.BackColor=). Doesn't seem like I should need to do that as it's set in Class3, but apparently when I add it to the form it picks up the form's backcolor-which might be the way UserControls work.
But, it still doesn't show the label that's on the UserControl-just a block of color where I placed the UserControl.And now, I might have solved this problem only to raise another. I finally noticed that although Class3 had an InitializeComponent sub it lacked a Sub New-so it never called the InitializeComponent sub.
I added a Sub New that does nothing except call InitializeComponent & now I'm getting the whole thing. I guess now the question is why the Sub New is required for Class3 but not for the DLL? (Or maybe it was created automatically for the DLL but not for Class3? I'll check the hidden code in the DLL project to see if it was created or not.)
