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Visual Studio Hacks
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Visual Studio Hacks

by James Avery
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Customize the Toolbox #27
Chapter 4, Customizing Visual Studio
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Customize the Toolbox Hack #27
Everything you need can be at your fingertips in Visual Studio’s toolbox. In
this hack, learn how to enhance the toolbox with custom controls and code
snippets.
The toolbox is used to store controls and code snippets. The controls and
code snippets can be dragged from the toolbox to either the editor or the
code window. The toolbox is designed to save time during development.
Instead of writing control code manually, you can drag and drop controls or
code snippets.
Controls and the Toolbox
The most common use of the toolbox is for Windows controls and web con-
trols (including HTML controls). When you work with either the Windows
Forms designer or the Web Forms Designer, you will constantly interact
with the toolbox to drag and drop controls onto the designer. By default, the
toolbox contains controls from within the .NET Framework, but you can
also add custom controls to the toolbox. Adding new controls to the tool-
box is a relatively simple procedure.
First, right-click on the tab of the toolbox you want to add the control to
and select Add/Remove Items; this will display the dialog shown in
Figure 4-12.
From this dialog, you simply need to select your control from the list of .NET
Framework Components or COM Components or use the Browse button to
manually browse for the control. When browsing ...
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