Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

Adding controls to Visual Studio Toolbox

Atanas Korchev — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:18:22 GMT

The Problem
As Rumen said, adding controls to Visual Studio toolbox&nbsp;can be a tedious procedure....

re: Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

JocularJoe — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:35:25 GMT

I tried this and it seems to work, but it looks like black magic.
Can you point to any resources describing the reasons for the CoRegisterMessageFilter and the creation of a dummy project?
None of that was necessary in VS.NET 2003.

re: Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

JocularJoe — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:03:23 GMT

I have adapted the above code with some changes to make it more robust into a couple of classes which can be called from an Installer run from a Custom Action in a Setup project.
One problem I hit is that custom actions in an MSI seem to be run on an MTA thread - and CoRegisterMessageFilter only works on an STA thread. The fix was to spawn an STA worker thread. I can supply the source if anyone's interested.

re: Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

chimera — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:54:11 GMT

This doesn't seem to work with custom web control dll's? Is that correct?

If so, do you know how to install them in the toolkit?

re: Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

BourqueJ — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:50:30 GMT

Thanks, that worked great! One question tough, I am having trouble getting the code to work with the Express versions of Visual Studio, any idea?

Thanks.

Can i choose tab name when adding from visual studio

esala; — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:05:13 GMT

Hello,

I'm working with c# .net 2

I'm a part of a gui team, we create and update controls that are used in our projects.

since we update them frequently, we don't want to create deploy each time.

My question is, can i determine the default tab to add my controls when adding them using right mouse button --> add... on the toolbox?

Thanks,
Eran.

re: Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

benoit.drapeau — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:17:47 GMT

You made my day. Your code work like a charm, at least with my configuration (Windows XP Professionnal, Visual Studio 2005 Professional with SP1) and adding custom web controls.

Thanks a lot

Benoit

re: Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

karthika — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:14:26 GMT

Hello Joe,

I am graduate student trying to create an installer project to install the custom controls and was wondering if you could share some ideas on how you created one. Also, could someone tell me why we need to create a temporary winform project?

Thanks for your help!

Kate

>Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:03 AM by >JocularJoe

># re: Code to install Community Toolbox >Controls

>I have adapted the above code with some >changes to make it more robust into a couple >of classes which can be called from an >Installer run from a Custom Action in a Setup >project.

>One problem I hit is that custom actions in >an MSI seem to be run on an MTA thread - and >CoRegisterMessageFilter only works on an STA >thread. The fix was to spawn an STA worker >thread. I can supply the source if anyone's >interested.

re: Code to install Community Toolbox Controls

sdadept — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:42:39 GMT

karthika, I'd like to see that. I'm having problems calling a program created with this from an msi install custom action. Email me at sd_adept at the address of hotmail.com. Or if you could post a link to your work.

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