I am attempting to follow a tutorial regarding Winforms and Entity Framework, but am having difficulty following along.
The tutorial I am using is from CodeProject.com and can be found here. The problem I have is that the tutorial references two controls, EntityDataSource and EntityBindingNavigator, which I cannot find in my toolbox.
I have tried to right-click on my toolbox and clicked "Choose Items...", but I still cannot find these two controls. Although EntityDataSource is selected in the following image, it does not appear in my toolbox (perhaps because it's from the System.Web assembly?):
I have chosen the references I would assume I need, but it does not help the situation:
I am using Visual Studio 2012 Update 4. The tutorial is from Feb 2014, so I can't imagine I cannot find these controls because the tutorial is using an extremely old version of VS or something along those lines.
I am completely lost, especially because the tutorial has so many good ratings; apparently, it's just me who can't find these dang controls! I have found other posts from users who cannot find them, but the solution is usually to right-click the toolbox and click "Choose items..." (which I have done, to no avail).
Any other suggestions? Your help is greatly appreciated!
According to the sidebar in the link, the CodeProject article is about "A component that makes it easy to use Entity Framework in WinForms projects, including design-time binding support."
The article itself (I didn't read it in detail) appears to be more about how to use the component, not directly about using Entity Framework in WinForms. The article author has created a library (EFWinForms), and it is included in the downloads. For example, I downloaded the EF6 C# code, which has two projects and one solution - an EF6WinForms project and Sample project.
To follow along with the example, or use the EFWinForms library in your own project, you can add the project (from the download) to your solution and reference it, and then add the appropriate using (Imports for VB.NET) statements.
If you want to add just the DLL pick then build the EFWinForms project (it'll probably have a slightly different name depending on the version), and then add a reference to that DLL.
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I am using VS 2013 (Express Version) and I want to create a WPF user Control Library project. But I am not able to find the template in my installed templates list. If I use Winforms, I am able to build a DLL out of my Winforms Application Project just by changing the Output type as "Class Library". But it is not happening in WPF and it is throwing errors if I do so. Is this the correct method of doing it or am I going wrong?
And in the Create New Project dialogue window, I am not able to find the .NET Framework selector drop down. After creating the project only I am able to change the .NET framework version by going inside the properties of the project.
Kindly help me to get out of this. Thanks in advance.
I have been working on this exact same problem for hours this morning. Here is what I think I have learned:
With Visual Studio Express 2013, it is by design that the WPF User Control Library template is not available for making a New Project. This is because it is the free Express version.
With the Express version, you don't have a "devenv.exe" for trying the "devenv /installvstemplates" to "fix" things. It is, instead, called (just a moment while I look this up again...) "WDExpress.exe" and will be located (if you have default location) in the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE" directory. BUT - this won't help you. It won't fix your problem, because, as I mentioned, your Express installation is designed to not have that template available for New Project, so your "fix" won't put it there. I know this because this is what I tried myself. (Also, note that the instructions for doing this tell you to uninstall any extensions you've installed before doing it. And then, of course, if you still want them you have to reinstall them. Like I still have to do, incidentally.) I'm letting you know all of this so you don't go through the headache I'm having.
Note that I have not done this yet, so this is somewhat hypothetical on my part, but is based on my research on the Internet so far - Your solution is to create a WPF User Control Library manually [but now see UPDATE below]. (No, I don't know how to do this yet. I got into this in the first place, because I'm a WPF novice - just started working with it a few days ago - and late last night I got this great idea to add a "spinner" progress indicator to my "WPF play/learning project" I'm working on, and found a couple of relatively easy-to-work-with samples on the Internet - both of them are a WPF User Control Library - and at first I wanted to use the copy-and-paste to put the code in. But then I discovered... well, our mutual problem, because I'm using Visual Studio Express 2013. No such template under New Project. And literally at the tail end of my about-to-throw-in-the-towel, I'm googling and your post, Dhivakar, is already showing up with the right Google search.) So I haven't finished my research yet, but my next step is to learn exactly how to create a WPF User Control Library manually (the code and various project property settings), and then I can just save a WPF User Control Library skeleton for future use and document the details.
UPDATE: This guy totally has the solution for Express versions. I have followed his steps and it works great. The only additional piece of information I would add is that in my version (VSE2013), after you've created your WPF User Control Library template, when you open Visual Studio again and use File -> New Project, my selection in the tree (for a Windows app) came up under Templates -> Visual C# -> Windows (which is what I've been using). I did not see my template showing up there, after I created it, and I thought, "Great! Another piece of advice that doesn't work." But then I clicked up one on the "Visual C#" parent - and there was the template!
Here you go:
How to add a WPF control library template to Visual C# Express 2008
https://dotupdate.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/how-to-add-a-wpf-control-library-template-to-visual-c-express-2008/
Yes, it works this way for VSE2013 too.
UPDATE 2: I'm not absolutely positive about this, but I think he missed one little piece. In his step #4 he says to delete Window1.xaml and App.xaml. Maybe this didn't apply with VSE 2008, but in VSE 2013 there is also the App.config file which I believe is extraneous for our purpose. So you can delete App.config as well. As I said, I'm not absolutely certain about this yet, but I noticed that file in the project when I added a WPF User Control Library project to my solution, and I deleted it, and the solution compiled okay.
Try running devenv with the /installvstemplates switch, from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms247116(v=vs.100).aspx
If this doesn't work, browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\CSharp\WPF\1033\WPFUserControl (this could change dependent upon your installation directory), open the .vstemplate file in a text editor, and make sure the setting is set to true, then try running devenv with the switch again.
Hope it helps.
I am using MS VS 2010.
I can not for the life of me find any instructions on how to install something like this to use on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
I was wondering how to install and use this control in this version of MS VS with C#.
http://www.denisbauer.com/ASPNETControls/DynamicControlsPlaceholder.aspx
I am making a very dynamic page with a lot of post backs and I think this has great potential!
I need to know how to get this one working bolded below:
Download (V2.2):
The sourcode is available in C# as a VS.NET project (Wont convert for
me)
A ready-to-use assembly (including help file). A demo shows the usage of this control. Sourcecode for this Demo (C#) or Sourcode for
the Demo (VB)
Any help would be greatly appreciated I can't find much information on this on the web. Perhaps I am using the wrong keywords... I am stuck on this at work for the time being and no-one here can help. Its become one of those aggravating programming moments were the fun is wearing off!
I saw one other post on here "Install Custom Control in VS Toolbox" But he too has no luck and I wasn't really looking to install it with a program. I swear I did this long ago with 2008 in college just through a process with MS VS.
Thanks
You need to store the assembly somewhere (we usually store them in an assemblies folder relative to the project), then add a reference to that assembly.
If the assembly supports being added to the toolbox, you can drag the assembly from windows explorer and drop it on the toolbox and it will automatically add all of the appropriate designable items to the toolbox. It is best, if you do this, to create a new tab to hold these items (right-click in the toolbox and select Add Tab).
If the assembly does support addition to the toolbox, your next step is to drag the item from the toolbox onto the page or control and visual studio should take care of wiring it up.
Otherwise, you will need to follow the instructions on the website or copy details from the sample projects to configure the control in your page.
I want to create a VS2010 c# solution template generator and I'm looking for free/open tools to achieve this.
An example of what I'm trying to do is a winform application takes project name, namespace and database connectionstring and produce a c# customized solution with my custom classes, namespace and references.
I found those:
EnvDTE
Code Generation and T4 Text Templates
Is this the right way to do this? Do you know better tools?
You need to look at project templates. Normally you only get prompted for a project name (used as the solution name as well if creating a solution at the same time).
However the project template system can run code (as seen with C++ and ASP.NET MVC Projects).
There is a lot of information in the VS SDK, but you might find examining project templates that launch wizards useful to isolate the useful bits of documentation.
I am trying to make a C# game. I want to include XNA libraries there (e.g. Microsoft.XNA.Framework.Graphics). But, if I do so, I get an error :
The type or namespace XNA doesnot exist in the namespace Microsoft.
Can anyone please help ?
First of all, check you are using the correct case, the namespace and assembly names are Xna not XNA. If that doesn't work:
You should follow the instructions here. These describe how to install (as well as some flavour of Visual Studio 2010) XNA Game Studio and to create a project using the template. Using the template project is much easier than adding the references manually.
To add a reference to the XNA assemblies, you need to right click your project in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio and select "Add Reference".
If you do not see the DLLs you are looking for, you may need to right click your project, select properties, and then ensure that the target framework is one of the flavours of the .NET 4.0 framework (for XNA 4.0).
First you should right click on the "References" folder shown (usually) at the top of the project you are working in. From here you can select add references and manually browse to the location of the XNA .DLLs.
First, you need to add a reference to the XNA binary files. Second, I recommend you start off with the Built-In Visual Studio XNA Game Template, and work from there.
To add the references manually, you'll (probably need XNA Game Studio installed) and then add references to Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll and whatever else you need.
Personally, I still think you should start with the built-in visual studio template for a Game. Once you get a feel for it, move on to advanced concepts like embeding your game into a standard WinForm app or whatever.
In the solution explorer. Go to reference, add reference and then add th Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Xact reference 4.0 It is somewhere near the bottom if you leave it unsorted. Then you can access the Audio Engine class.
I had the same problem and then found it at the 3rd time of trying. Worked fine for me. Hope this helps.
Instead of hassling around in the references list in Visual Studio, just download the DLL from HERE, or the direct link:
https://www.dllme.com/dll/files/microsoft_xna_framework_dll.html
I have two projects in my solution one a silverlight library and the other a wpf control library, ive added the sources as a link from my silverlight library to my wpf library and after a bit of refatoring hit a road block, my wpf library project does not want to build the generated files needed for the code behind to recocnize the named elements from the xaml sources (which where added as links), does anyone know how to prompt visual studio 2008 to actually perform the gen operation on my linked sources?
Stab in the dark - but have you renamed a namespace or class name?
Make sure all the code/xaml namespace/class names are the same in wpf and silverlight versions.