Monogame with winforms

Question

I'm planning on creating a map editor for a C# game I'm building. I've done this previously using XNA and XNA's old GraphicsDeviceControl, GraphicsDeviceService and ServiceContainer. I want the ability to create a class and inherit from the GraphicsDeviceControl class and then drag that class onto the form from the toolbox just like this: Youtube Video

I've installed OpenTK using NuGet and followed this tutorial but when I create a class and inherit GraphicsDeviceControl it doesn't show up in the form toolbox. Am I doing something wrong? Isn't this possible using monogame? If it's possible, what should I do to get it working?

Thanks in advance!

It's certainly possible, although I can't remember the exact details. I think I found a control in the SharpDX framework that can be adapted to work with MonoGame. — craftworkgames, May 04 '16 at 12:24
@craftworkgames Could you see if you can find the details? I've searched around a bit but I can't find it. Thanks in advance! — TS1997, May 05 '16 at 09:30

livin_amuk · Answer 1 · 2016-05-11T11:57:36.977

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If your simply after a GL window within a form, look into GLControl, it does exactly that. Right click in some empty space of the Toolbox, browse and select OpenTK.GLControl.dll.

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answered May 11 '16 at 11:49

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I wrote this earlier today, somehow deleted it, undeleted it for reference. Glad you got it sorted. – livin_amuk May 11 '16 at 14:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '16 at 13:03

I finally managed to get it working :D I added every class that exists in the project called MGWinFormsControls in this github repo to my project. I already had a monogame.framework as well as OpenTK and OpenTK.GlControl reference. Then I created a class and inherited from GraphicsDeviceControl. At first this didn't work but after only writing one line of code in the draw function in my class it worked. I just wrote GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.Black). Now the class shows up in the toolbox

Monogame with winforms

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