Hi everyone. This is a bit embarrassing to ask, but how on earth do you add a custom control to a System.Windows.Form? How can you get it to the toolbox? The only way I found so far is by hacking the Form.designer.cs and add it manually. Is there seriously no way to add a control in the same or a referenced project using the designer?
I can do it by compiling and then using the Choose items dialog select the projects exe/dll, but that seems extremely ugly..?
[.net] Adding a custom control to a form
That is the normal way unless the Custom Control is in the same solution as the project you are trying to use it in (which will auto-populate into the toolbox) . I usually just create a new tab in the toolbox and just add it via the Choose items dialog.
I currently have a form with a custom control that's defined in a referenced project, maybe you should go to Tools->Options->Windows Forms Designer and then set the AutoToolBoxPopulate property to True, then rebuild your solution and it should show up in the toolbox.
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