Just downloaded the Silverlight 3 Toolkit and executed the MSI file.
Now I need to reference the Microsoft.Windows.Controls.dll file but don't know where MSI unpacked it. Can't find it at C:\ or in C:\Program Files. Where might it be?
ok, this post says that all the components should be in the toolbox, e.g. DockPanel, they are for Visual Studio 2008 Professional but not for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (it has some controls but not DockPanel for instance)
Answer:
Ok, the answer is: reboot and restart everything (until then Silverlight got a AG_E_PARSER_BAD_TYPE error, and brought down both Visual Studio versions and Firefox). After restarting everything, it works fine: the controls are automatically in the toolbox so you just have to drag them in, no need referencing the dll anymore as in Silverlight 2.
It didnt automatically add anything for me for Silverlight Beta 4 Toolkit and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
I followed these instructions. My toolkit bin was located :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\Toolkit
In addition I had to select additional DLLs for additional toolkit items from those described in the article. I also had to check the checkbox to indicate I actually wanted those items.
There must be a better way! Anyone?
Just in case anyone was wondering, I was :-).
There is a start menu group named "Microsoft Silverlight 3 Toolkit March 2009" with all the relevant info. The toolkit assemblies can be found in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v3.0\Toolkit\March 2009\Libraries"
The July 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit added a "Open the welcome page" choice at the end of the MSI setup.
The path names for the July release are also slightly different, but using the Welcome page (a link is also added to the Start Menu), you'll always have a quick method to find 'em.
Checking that box will make sure that a page opens up with details about everything that's installed, including links to all the binaries, themes, the documentation, etc.
Also, since the controls are all referenced through the AssemblyFolderEx registry key, you can add a GAC-style reference in your C# or VB.NET project...
<Reference Include="System.Windows.Controls.Input.Toolkit" />
And that will just work when built on a machine with the Silverlight SDK.
Hopefully it's a step in the right direction.
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I just installed Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise and selected Desktop-Development for .net features.
Now when I'm starting up Visual Studio and create a new WPF project, theres no advanced objects in the toolbox like the arc Control or more Effects other than BlurEffect and DropShadowEffect. These and many others are just missing. When I look in the object browser in Visual Studio Blend, I can't find them there either.
Do I need to install something else explicitly?
Okay so I found it out: You have to manually select "Blend for Visual Studio SDK for .NET" in the Components section of the installer. This will actually install all the advanced WPF Controls, which where missing for me.
Those where always installed from VS Installer versions 2012, 2013 and 2015 automatically (its a package of 100mb).
I can just imagine that the Idea of a much more modular installer led the designers there to think "we need to make the installation faster so push out every little package that was used commonly throughout the last 5 years.".
And then they thought: "BUT hey, when it comes to the Xamarin installation, let's KEEP IN all the Google-Emulators for Android which pack a WHOPPING 17 GB!!!"
They surely thought also: "Most people wont need these, since they either have a android device on their own or they use one of our emulators, which are vtx enabled, so 10 times faster than googles emulators, and ours also only need 1 GB of disk-space. But well, we wanted to make a fast installer after all, so let it pack our customers drives full of stuff they don't need at all".
You can right-click on a category in the toolbox and click on the "Choose items" option and try to find the tools that you are missing:
visual studio 2010 toolbox standard controls missing
Blend is more design friendly than Visual Studio though so you shouldn't be suprised if you see more options in Blend. After all, Visual Studio is a programming/coding tool and Blend is a design tool.
You rarely (or never) use the toolbox to add elements to a WPF view in a "real-world scenario. In fact it is quote common to disable the designer altogether: http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/03/24/disable-the-xaml-designer-in-visual-studio/. If you are a serious WPF developer you should really learn XAML and MVVM :)
I had my project written in Silverlight 4. Recently I've reinstalled my system and installed Silverlight 5. But when I re-installed "everything" I got the problem with BusyIndicator. It does look like this control was removed from System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit and attempts to compile my project (targeted still to Silverlight 4) fails with error:
The type 'ToolkitControls:BusyIndicator' was not found.
The namespace is defined as follow:
xmlns:ToolkitControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;
assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit"
I saw a lot of other topics on StackOverflow and see people use this control widely. That sounds like I don't have some toolbox installed or miss any assembly.
I do have the following components installed:
MS VS 2010 SP1
Tools for Visual Studio® 2010 SP1 ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28358)
Silverlight 5 Toolkit - December 2011 ( http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/78435)
Do I need something else?
Probably I need to add some reference to my project to have already installed toolboxes linked to my project?
Please advise, any help is very much appreciated!
P.S. Recently found similar problem and solution for WPF ( The type toolkit:BusyIndicator was not found). But in my case I don't know with which assembly to start... I've looked through the GAC and "Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight": can't find any assemblies in that looks like related to Silverlight control toolbox...
I just added the same Tools and Silverlight 5 ToolKit to my Visual Studio installation. I was able to find the BusyIndicator by going to the ToolBox right clicking and then selectin ChooseItems I found it there not enabled.
Namespace = System.Windows.Controls
Assembly Name = System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit
Directory = C:\Program files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v5.0\Toolkit\dec11\Bin
Heh, the answer was easy though not really obvious:
I should install toolkit for the 4th Silverlight (http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/43528)! :)
I instaled nuget package and now working right.
PM> Install-Package SilverlightToolkit-All
I have been unable to revert a winforms project from .net 4 back to .net 3.5 due to bugs in visual studio 2010. The program manager says in a forum it was not a design goal to permit round trip development to previous versions (!). The error is in the resx files:
error RG0000: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/557469/visual-studio-2010-generates-invalid-assembly-in-some-cases
"This is the intended way in which the product was designed. And, we do not support round-tripping with previous versions of the product. As such, I am resolving the issue, "By Design"."
I tried manually editing a resx file back to 3.5 and couldn't do it. Any suggestions for this appreciated.
Assuming you haven't got a previous version for what ever reason, the simplest solution would be to delete the .resx files and recreate them in the 3.5 version of the project. Take a copy of the project so you can open the offending .resx files and copy the resources to the clipboard. Pasting them back into the 3.5 version should just paste the content.
Get the last working version just before you did the upgrade from source control. You do use source control right?
I created a new Silverlight Navigation Application using Visual Studio 2010. I didn't make any changes to the code. Just Pressed F5 to run. I get the following error message:
The type 'System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationEventArgs' exists in both 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\Silverlight\v4.0\System.Windows.Controls.Navigation.dll' and 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\Silverlight\v4.0\System.Windows.dll'
I right clicked the Silverlight Navigation Application folder in the solution explorer and changed its "Target Silverlight Version" from Silverlight 4 to Silverlight 3 and then ran the application (by pressing F5) and it works fine.
I've already spent a lot of time trying to fine a solution. I want to develop application using Silverlight 4.
Would really appreciate any help with this.
Regards,
Vivek
It sounds like you have Silverlight 4's runtime, but an older set of VS tools or an older SDK, or your project is somehow referencing the older SDK.
Basically, that type moved from the System.Windows.Controls.Navigation DLL (where it was in SL3) to System.Windows.dll (where it is in SL4). CLR type-forwarding should take care of this.
Since Silverlight version numbers on assemblies didn't change between SL3 and SL4 it can be somewhat hard to tell if you're in the situation where you have outdated tools/SDK. Check the last modified date on System.Windows.Controls.Navigation.dll and see if it looks like about the time SL4 was released, or check if the Frame control has a property called ContentLoader - if so, you have the updated bits (and my answer is thus not helping). If not, however, then try reinstalling the SL4 Tools and/or SDK and check that your project is referencing the v4 Navigation assembly.
I want to use WrapPanel in Silverlight 3.
It is apparently in the Silverlight Toolkit.
All the information I can find on it say to download the toolkit, unzip the download, look in the folder binaries and you will find Microsoft.Windows.Controls.dll.
This works for December 2008 version of the Silverlight toolkit just fine, since it is a zip file.
But I would like the newest version.
However, the November 2009 version of the Silverlight toolkit is an .msi file which installs but doesn't tell me where Microsoft.Windows.Controls.dll is.
Nor is it in the Add Service | .NET tab.
How can I get the Microsoft.Windows.Controls.dll from the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit install so I can use WrapPanel in Silverlight 3?
When I installed it I didn't change any defaults and it's installed to:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v3.0\Toolkit\Nov09\Bin
But I can't see a Microsoft.Windows.Controls.dll in that folder.
As far I as can ascertain you want System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit.dll
The DLLs for the toolkit are located at:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v3.0\Toolkit\Nov09\Bin
(though, as someone else mentioned, that particular DLL isn't available)
They should also be available if you Add a Reference as well. Just look under the .Net tab (when you have a Silverlight Project open).
Microsoft.Windows.Controls had been changed to System.Windows.Controls
http://silverlight.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Silverlight%20Toolkit%20March%202009%20change%20list&ProjectName=silverlight
The controls in the silverlight toolkit use to be in the microsoft.windows.controls.dll. The March 2009 version of the toolkit moved the controls to system.windows.controls.dll
http://silverlight.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Silverlight%20Toolkit%20March%202009%20change%20list