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.
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I'm a PLC programmer (mostly industrial automation using Ladder Logic) who has picked up some other programming skills along the way. Went back to school, learned some basic C and java, etc. But I'm a bit baffled by the Visual Studio IDE for C#. I'm brand new to this, so please forgive my ignorance.
I have two sample applications and I've been assigned with trying to make one look/behave more or less like the other. The "working" application, when I open it in VS 2019, has a customized section of the VS toolbox. The toolbox contains all of the User Controls that appear in the "Parts" folder of the VS solution. This allows me to drag and drop these controls into a Form and it auto-generates the code. Nice.
However, on the other sample project (which is very similar) nothing from the "Parts" folder appears in the Toolbox. So I can't drag and drop the Use Controls into the forms I'm trying to build.
Not sure if it matters, but I'm running the apps on two separate PCs so I can compare easily. Both are running brand new installs of VS 2019. I mention this because I didn't do any custom setup of the IDE. So the fact that these items from the Parts folder appear in the VS Toolbox seems to be a function of the solution itself, not the IDE.
So that's my question: How do I get things from the Parts folder into the VS Toolbox so I can drag them into a form?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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Found it. Compile the project successfully and anything that appears in the "Parts" folder will automatically appear in the toolbox under a new heading with the same title as your project.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/workflow-designer/how-to-add-activities-to-the-toolbox?view=vs-2019
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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 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.
i am using visual studio 2010 and arcgis server 10 to develop Server Object Extension and while developing the manager property page esri.arcgis.servermanager is missing how to include this assembly reference in my project.
i am using this link for help http://help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/arcobjects_net/conceptualhelp/index.html#/How_to_develop_a_property_page_for_the_REST_SOE/000100000nwm000000/
plz help me asap.
First of: I am not familiar with ArcGIS Server, but I might be able to help you with some general remarks.
Check that the assemblies listed under step 6 of the link you posted are visible under References (when you expand it) in the Solution Explorer of Visual Studio. If not, you'll need to add them.
To add a reference to a assemblies, right-click the References item in your Solution Explorer and click Add Reference.... Find the assemblies that you have to include (e.g. ESRI.ArcGIS.ServerManager). This is essentially steps 5 and 6 of the link you posted. If you've done this correctly, they should appear under References in your Solution Explorer.
Note that the documentation states that the ServerManager requires the Web Applications component of ArcGIS Server. Ensure that you have this, or it might not work.
A major part of our work is creating and manipulating certain XML files, for which have a custom editor. The editor is starting to get creaky and we are looking at building a replacement. Since VS2010 has recently arrived, ostensibly with an improved add-in architecture (MEF?), I am interested in the possibility of building the editor as a custom editor within Visual Studio.
It would have to appear in the same way as the code editor or the Designer - a tab item, of which there can be many open at once, containing the GUI we use to edit the files. It would integrate with VS's Edit menu. It could use the output window to display messages. It would appear the same as any other editor within Visual Studio.
Right now, I am looking for examples of add-ins that work in a similar way - ideally with source code - to see whether this model would suit our requirements. I am also looking for any documentation or tutorials relevant to creating a VS2010 add-in, or information about VS2008 add-ins if this is still relevant.
Any input is welcome. Thanks!
You want to look at the Managed Extensibility Framework for VS 2010. Since 2010 is written in .net you can create add on components using it.
Code editor extension for VS 2010.
Working with MEF
Custom Editor Extensions
Update:
Since someone asked in a comment, I thought I would post this link on creating add ons for vs 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb968855.aspx