Questions tagged [toolbox]

The Toolbox displays icons for controls and other items that you can add to Visual Studio projects.

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Making a personal programming toolbox

Lately I've been considering creating a sort of "toolbox" for myself in java. It would consist of standard algorithms and data structures that are frequently used, but a pain to implement. (I'm thinking graphs, trees, etc) What would be the best way…
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Filtering the Visual Studio toolbox

Does anyone know if it is possible at all to filter the Toolbox's items in Visual Studio using an add-in? Visual Studio 2010 introduced the ability to search but I want to filter, for example: type in button and it must show all items containing…
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Can't find Shockwave player object reference in WPF application

I'm trying to use google maps in my wpf c# project, I've installed Adobe Flash player but cannot for the life of me find the shockwave player object reference or when I add a new item in the toolbox find in, both in the COM lists. I've searched…
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SSIS fails to create this task?

UPDATE: After having restarted my BIDS, deleted my dll from GAC and task folder, and redoing the whole process, I was able to sort things out. So I don't know exactly what was wrong but that's something worth trying. So I have exactly the same…
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Usercontrol, embedded image as icon in toolbox

I'm making a control for Visual Studio, and I want to give it an icon to see in the toolbox. I can easily make it happen when pointing at a location on the hard disk, like this: [ToolboxBitmap("G:\Graphics\icon.png")] But I don't want to depend on…
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Why does the Visual Studio Toolbox display empty?

It used to be that when I launched the Toolbox in Visual Studio, it would show all the UI controls available (based on whether the project is of type WinForms or WPF). In Visual Studio 2019, the Toolbox displays empty, and then I have to do a…
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VS2008 Toolbox Controls Repeated

I'm not really sure why but my VS2008 toolbox controls (Data, Validation, Navigation, Login & Webparts) are displaying multiple times. Does anyone know how to correct the issue? I'm still using XP if that has any bearing on the answer. Thanks!
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Is there a way to achieve real transparency with ToolboxBitmap?

I'm creating icons for my usercontrols using Paint.NET. I'd like to have proper transparency like 32 bit PNG or BMPX provides. Is there a way to achieve that? Looking at the toolbox, the regular Label control does seem to use a fully transparent…
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Attunity component Source and Destination for Oracle in Visual Studio 2019 SSIS

I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 community Edition. SqlServer Data tools. And the Attunity component for SSIS. I downloaded and installed the component from the Microsoft Attunity/Oracle download. The Oracle Source and Oracle Destination does…
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Webpack 4 configuration for react-toolbox

I try to upgrade my app from webpack 2 to webpack 4.16.5. Because I want not again end up in a hard to understand some hundreds line config, I start with a minimal config. This is my current: const path = require("path"); const HtmlWebPackPlugin =…
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Slow extraction of data with the Bloomberg API (Matlab Datafeed Toolbox)

I am using the Datafeed Toolbox to extract data from Bloomberg. In particular I use the functions: d = history(c,s,f,fromdate,todate) I found however that the data extraction is quite slow. E.g. for a list of 248 tickers, and for the field PX_LAST…
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How to add types from external assembly to toolbox control? (WPF)

I am trying to do something like this in my WPF application: ToolboxControl ctrl = new ToolboxControl(); Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(file); var category = new ToolboxCategory(assembly.GetName().Name); foreach (Type t in…
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How Do I Get Visual Studio ToolBox to Auto-Populate Projects Components?

I have a Visual Studio 2008 .NET Framework 2.0 project that I'm building. It has some custom components. These are not populated into the Toolbox. Why not? I once added a custom user control to the box, and it auto added all my components. But,…
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Audio Toolbox playing an mp3 file (iOS)

I've tried to get an mp3 file played with Audio Toolbox and Audio Queues, but whatever I try, I don't get anything played (neither in the simulator nor on the device). When I run it in the simulator it tells me: "Prime failed (-66674); will stop…
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Adding Custom UserControl to Visual Studio 2005's Toolbox

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 for a project I'm working on right now. I've created a new, custom control that inherits from 'UserControl'. Now I need to add that control to another Windows Form within the same project. I thought that the IDE would…
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