How to set Custom Control Toolbox icon from existing control?

Question

I have created a new custom control deriving from System.Windows.Forms.Control.  I would like to give it the same toolbox icon as that from TextBox.  How do I do it?

Answer 1

Hi jrh7000,

Please look at this issue, Michael gives the detail steps:

 

Add a design time data file (xmta) to your project and embed a bitmap to be used as the tooboxBitmap. In the XMTA file add aTooboxBitmap tag.

In the XMTA file add aTooboxBitmap tag:

Here is a short sample:

Code Block

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Classes xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2004/03/SmartDevices/XMTA.xsd">
  <Class Name ="Your project">
    <DesktopCompatible>true</DesktopCompatible>
    <Description>Label mit Border</Description>
    <ToolboxBitmap>youricon.gif</ToolboxBitmap>
  </Class>
</Classes>

 

 

Best regards,

Guang-Ming Bian - MSFT

 

 

Answer 2

This works fine for defining your own icons.  However I want to use the System.Windows.Forms.TextBox icon.  I know this is possible on the full framework using the ToolBoxBitmap attribute.  Is this possible for Smart Device projects?

Answer 3

Hi jrh7000,

You can search the textbox icon in your vs2005 folder and take it as your own icon, it will works fine.

Compact framework doesn't support ToolBoxBitmap atribute.

 

Best regards,

Guang-Ming Bian - MSFT

Answer 4

I tried searching my "Microsoft Visual Studio 8" directory for icons but there were none for the TextBox.

 

I realise that the Compact Framework does not support the ToolBoxBitmap attribute.  There are a lot of design time attributes that are not supported but the XTMA file does support most of them.  It uses a different syntax which is fine.  I was hoping that the ToolBoxBitmap could handle the following:

 

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Classes xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2004/03/SmartDevices/XMTA.xsd">
  <Class Name ="MyTextBox">
    <ToolboxBitmap>

      <Type>System.Windows.Forms.TextBox, System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</Type>

    </ToolboxBitmap>
  </Class>
</Classes>

 

 

 

Is there a variation that would work?