Re: (HW) Adding custom controls within a project

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From: Helmut Wagensonner (helmut.wagensonner_at_gmx.net)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:16:46 +0100

Thanks a lot! I will try immediately. I remember, that the guy in the
presentation used a different way - but anyway...

Thx, Helmut

"Mick Doherty"
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> The common way
> Right Click the Toolbox and select "Add/Remove Items..."
> Browse to your projects Bin directory and select the exe.
> Click the OK button and the control will be added to the toolbox.
> This will be on the toolbox of every project you now open.
>
> The way I do it
> Comment out the code for your control.
> Change Inheritance from TextBox to UserControl.
> Show the controls designer and rebuild the project.
> The textbox control is now in your "My User Controls" tab.
> Reset inheritance back to TextBox, uncomment the code and rebuild.
> This will only be on the toolbox for your current project.
>
> --
> Mick Doherty
> http://dotnetrix.co.uk/nothing.html
>
>
> "Helmut Wagensonner" <helmut.wagensonner@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:eQHhTLTEFHA.3732@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have created a custom textBox within a C# project. I want to put that
>> custom textBox on a form now. I heard about a way, to place that user
>> control onto a form within the same project, without having to compile
>> it seperately before.
>>
>> An example:
>>
>> 1. In Visual Studio create a new C# Windows Application
>> 2. Add a User Control to the Project
>> 3. Modify the code of the control so that it inherits from
>> System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
>> 4. Overwrite some function (i. e. OnDragEnter)
>>
>> protected override void OnDragEnter(DragEventArgs drgevent)
>> {
>> MessageBox.Show("Test");
>> base.OnDragEnter (drgevent);
>> }
>>
>> 5. ...and this is where I stuck: Add this modified textBox to the
>> existing Form1
>>
>> It's not possible, to simply drag it on the Form (in Design View), like
>> you do with controls from the Toolbox. I know, that there's a way. I saw
>> this a couple of months before in some presentation, but cannot remember
>> how the guy did this.
>>
>> Anybody out there knows?
>>
>
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