In my Visual Studio 2015, Windows Forms Tool Box (where we have controls like Text box, button etc) is not showing up.
I tried checking all the check marks in Views->ToolBars, but no use.
Please help.
Thanks,
Make sure you have opened a Windows Forms project.
Open View menu and check Toolbox or use Ctrl+Alt+X shortcut and you will see the toolbox.
The toolbox will fill with controls when you open a Form or UserControl in design view.
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i a problem
i updated visual studio latest version.
but !
Can Not find Button & gridview Control in Toolbox In .Net Core WinForm App
of course the previews version i have this problem
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To restore the Button control, see the following excerpt from the announcement of the Windows Forms Designer;
Some users might not see some controls (like Button, CheckBox, etc.)
in the Toolbox. That happens due to the Toolbox cache corruption issue
that will be fixed in the next version. Meanwhile, there is a simple
way to fix it on your machine:
Right-click on the Toolbox > Choose Items… In the Choose Toolbox Items
dialog click “Reset” button This should fix the problem.
GridView does not exist in .NET Core, but DataGridView will be released in the future. See announcement.
In the web application, we just right click on the page go to properties and can see the opened page path. How to achieve this in WPF application. I am running a WPF app having windows with many user control. I want to edit a user control. So I want to know its name and location in my project folder.
That is not possible like how you can in a web application, however there are some tools that can help you.
WPF Snoop
Used to inspect WPF application rather like 'Inspect Element' in a webpage. After inspection, pressing ALT+SHIFT will higlight what element is under the mouse and show you its name. Then you can search for that name in Visual Studio to find the class to edit.
See https://github.com/snoopwpf/snoopwpf
Visual Studio XAML Inspector
The microsoft version of the above 'Live Visual Tree Inspector' now built into Visual Studio and compatible with .NET Core 3.0 as well as .NET Framework.
See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/visualstudio/xaml-tools/inspect-xaml-properties-while-debugging?view=vs-2019
I'm working on a visual studio extension. It has a command that opens up a WPF window that has a single item which is a textbox. If you type in the textbox you can see the text show up, but if you hit a key combination such as ctrl+a the visual studio editor which is behind my window captures the key press and selects the content from the editor instead of my window. If I click on something like the solution explorer and go back to my window though ctrl+a will work fine. It seems that I only have the issue while the editor has focus. Any ideas what I can do to get around this?
Open your WPF window as modal using ShowDialog or create a Visual Studio tool window to host your textbox, if you want a modeless window.
When the WPF window is opened in design view in Visual Studio, the Toolbox pane automatically loads WPF controls into "Common WPF Controls" tab and "All WPF Controls" tab.
Does anyone know how Visual Studio does this?
Seems like they would be loaded through either the Project References or the (more likely) user options saved when you rightclick on the tookbox and choose "Choose Items...".
I would imagine that somewhere, there is a setting where by default when a XAML page is open, it loads a bunch of items in System.Windows.Controls into the Toolbox. If you want, you can deselect those items you dont want, and put different items in the toolbox
How can i undock the WinForms form design in Visual Studio (so that it's not embedded in a tab, or encased in a "penalty box") so that it reacts similar to how Delphi-7 could undock the form?
e.g. This is what i have:
Note: The yellow highlight indicating the area of the form visible in the designer, red indicating the area of the form obscured by the penalty box.
This is what i want:
Note: A free-floating designable form, circa 2003.
Click-and-hold on its tab, and drag it.
Is that what you’re looking for?
EDIT:
Here's an Alt+PrtScrn:
Edit: Here's a snipping tool screenshot: