Visual Basic Power Packs also included with Visual Studio 2010

Published 27 July 09 09:56 AM

If you’re like me and used to having line & shape controls, PrintForm and a handy DataRepeater as part of your toolbox then you’ll be excited to know that these controls are also going to be installed with Visual Studio 2010.

On Friday, Yunfeng Dong mentioned on the VS Data team blog that the VB Power Packs 3.0 release was installed by default with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. In the comments of that post someone asks about VS2010 availability and it’s good to know that these controls will also be available in that release.

However you don’t need Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Studio 2010 to use these controls. If you have Visual Studio 2005 you can download the web release here. (Note that if you are using Express versions of Visual Studio, the controls will not automatically show up in your toolbox. Take a look at the readme on how you can add them.)

Enjoy!

by Beth Massi
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# Vinod said on July 29, 2009 4:25 AM:

Any chances of including these in .net framework 4.0 ?

That way the extra deployment needed on user machines can be avoided as we know that if users have installed .net framework then these will controls will also be avl there..

# Beth Massi said on July 29, 2009 2:21 PM:

Hi Vinod,

It's a good suggestion I can take back to the framework team, especially as more folks use them in their applications. But I assume this case is just like the ReportViewer controls -- the PowerPacks are a separate redistributable to to cut down on the size of the .NET framework install. If all teams were allowed to put their controls directly into the framework redist, I think it would get way too big.

Cheers,

-B

# Waleed El-Badry said on July 30, 2009 7:01 AM:

I agree with Vinod. It would be much feasible to include it with .NET FW 4.0. I don't think by doing this it increase the size of it drastically. Don't you agree Beth?

One more thing, don't tell them,but fight for it. You Beth were one of the enthusiastic devs for data repeater control :-)

Cheers

# LuoLong said on August 21, 2009 12:00 PM:

I agree with Vinod.  So, to help cut down on the size of .NET 4.0, how about just include the PrintForm component?  It is powerful and easy for a developer to include.

Thanks!

Luo Long

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About Beth Massi

Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.

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