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Daniel

19y2.7k

I have a solution with two projects; a main project (windows forms) and a .dll project that contains custom controls that I want to use in the main project.

I complied both projects and added a reference to the dll project in the main project. Last week the controls I built showed up in the toolbox and now do not. I have since deleted that project and recreated a new dll project and repeated all steps to add the reference, yet no controls show up in the toolbox.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Daniel19y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that and no luck. I get a message that 'there are no components in "project path" that can be placed on the toolbox.

When I had it working before, after I added the reference in the main project, the controls showed up automatically. Not sure what is going on at this point.
Scott Lysle19y ago
You can try adding a tab to the toolbar (right click in the toolbox and select 'Add Tab') and then, once the tab has been added, right click in the new tab, select 'Choose items', and then use the browse button on the dialog box to navigate to your dll. That should add the controls to the toolbox.