Problem in adding user controls to toolbox programatically

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to add a new tab and my controls programatically to visual studio 2010.
Its creating tab but its not adding the controls to tab.

//Getting design time environment
DTE DesignTimeEnvironment = (DTE)Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.10.0"), true);

//Getting tool box object
ToolBox VSToolBox = (ToolBox)DesignTimeEnvironment.Windows.Item("{B1E99781-AB81-11D0-B683-00AA00A3EE26}").Object;
ToolBoxTab MyTab = null;
string TabName = "MyComponents";

//checkin if Tab already exists
foreach (ToolBoxTab VSTab in VSToolBox.ToolBoxTabs)
{
    if (VSTab.Name == TabName)
    {
        MyTab = VSTab;
        break;
    }
}

//If tab doesn't exist, creating new one
if (null == MyTab)
    MyTab = VSToolBox.ToolBoxTabs.Add(TabName);

MyTab.Activate();
ToolBoxItem tbi = MyTab.ToolBoxItems.Add("FileBrowser",
    @"MyComponents.FileBrowser, MyTestComps, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2283de3658476795",
    vsToolBoxItemFormat.vsToolBoxItemFormatDotNETComponent);
DesignTimeEnvironment.Quit();

 If i run as administrator its working fine adding Controls to control library,

but whwn I use to add the library which is not in GAC its not working. It doesn't theough aany exception.

Ea:

ToolBoxItem tbi = MyTab.ToolBoxItems.Add("FileBrowser",
    @"C:\MyComponents\MyTestComps.dll",
    vsToolBoxItemFormat.vsToolBoxItemFormatDotNETComponent);

 

Answer 1

Move to VS Extenstion forum for better support.

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Answer 2

Please try this method instead: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/quanto/archive/2009/06/12/how-do-i-deploy-a-toolbox-control-as-a-vsix.aspx

 

-Josh Stevens

VS Shell team