Heiko
Contributor
Hi there,
has anyone of you ever experienced the following odd behaviour (and can provide a solution or workaround) ?
I'm afraid I have messed up the project settings of my UI project (which compiles to the final .exe by the way).
There are several custom controls in the UI project. Whenever I pick one of them, look at them in design mode, a new entry is made to the toolbox in the "Windows Form" segment. This new entry has the typical "user control" icon and works just fine. I can put it on other usercontrols via drag & drop.
However, when I try to customize my toolbox by adding all relevant usercontrols from the exe file, the usercontrols get a different icon: A gear wheel (Zahnrad). Now drag & drop of user control *from* the toolbox *to* the designer won't work anymore. (Object reference not set to an instance).
This is obviously NOT a coding problem of mine, because it does work (as I said) under certrain cirumstances.
What can I do??
** Workaround **
New page in the toolbox: [myPage]
Open user control in designer --> new icon in toolbox on windows forms page.
Drag icon from windows forms page to [myPage].
While icon on windows forms page disappears after next start of IDE, the one on mypage is still there.
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has anyone of you ever experienced the following odd behaviour (and can provide a solution or workaround) ?
I'm afraid I have messed up the project settings of my UI project (which compiles to the final .exe by the way).
There are several custom controls in the UI project. Whenever I pick one of them, look at them in design mode, a new entry is made to the toolbox in the "Windows Form" segment. This new entry has the typical "user control" icon and works just fine. I can put it on other usercontrols via drag & drop.
However, when I try to customize my toolbox by adding all relevant usercontrols from the exe file, the usercontrols get a different icon: A gear wheel (Zahnrad). Now drag & drop of user control *from* the toolbox *to* the designer won't work anymore. (Object reference not set to an instance).
This is obviously NOT a coding problem of mine, because it does work (as I said) under certrain cirumstances.
What can I do??
** Workaround **
New page in the toolbox: [myPage]
Open user control in designer --> new icon in toolbox on windows forms page.
Drag icon from windows forms page to [myPage].
While icon on windows forms page disappears after next start of IDE, the one on mypage is still there.
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