ToolBoxBitmap not showing for custom control

ToolBoxBitmap not showing for custom control

• EnigMa_AnGeL

  1: not really, just the way it works. Maybe they'll make the toolbar code a little smarter, considering how many people have a problem with it.
  2: dunno, and I don't want to find out. It took me a day to recover from yet another toolbar bug after I worked on that answer. Check this thread for the gory details.
  
  
  

• BCossa

  Just move it to the bottom of the source code file.
  
  
  

• Alex Yakhnin - MSFT

  Good God! :-)

  Ok her eis a little update on my findings. The fix like i said works great except in my situation it also causes yet another problem. The problem is that i'm working with the designer and so since my main class is not the first class, i get an error. Following i the error i get and a snipet of code: Thanks for the help

  internal class resfinder{} <--- Note this becomes the first class.

  namespace Gui.IFrame

  {

  [Designer( typeof( Gui.IFrame.IFrameDesigner ) )] <-- Designer does not like this

  [ToolboxItem( true )]

  [ToolboxBitmap( typeof( IFrame ), "IFrame.IFrame.bmp" )]

  public partial class IFrame : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl

  {

  }

  }

  Error:

  The class IFrame can be designed, but is not the first class in the file. Visual Studio requires that designers use the first class in the file. Move the class code so that it is the first class in the file and try loading the designer again.

  at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomDesignerLoader.EnsureDocument(IDesignerSerializationManager manager) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager manager) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager serializationManager) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.BasicDesignerLoader.BeginLoad(IDesignerLoaderHost host)

  
  

• Cla82

  Good God why didnt i think of that LOL.

  Thanks again!

  
  

• Newbie75

  Hi!

  Obviously most easy rare it is said.

  Its way is correct, but to work right with bitmap embedded, lacks to make the basic one, that I did not find in none forum that I looked for, until discovering on account: it is enough to click the right button of mouse on the icon when it appears as RESOURCE inside of the VIEW SOLUTION/PROJECT and to change the property ACTION for

  "Embedded Resource".

  Then its bitmap will go to work.

  Curious that when you add a Bitmap as Resource, it it does not come automatically as embedded.

  (It forgives me for the bad English, but it is lack of practical.)

  Rodrigo.

  Brasil.

  
  
  

• Porko

  nobugz,

  Thanks a bunch as that did the trick. I do have 2 questions:

  1) Is this a bug and if so do you know if its fixed in the upcoming SP's

  2) Do i need to do the same thing if i decide to import the bitmap into a resource file instead of having it directly under the solution

  Note: I was having the same problem when i inserted the bitmap into a resx file which i prefer to do.

  Thanks again!

  
  

• simon_56387

  Check my answer on this thread...
  
  
  
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