MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Initialize the usercontrol of a toolwindow from a Visual Studio package.

July 8, 2014

Although creating a toolwindow and hosting a usercontrol in a Visual Studio package seems easy (thanks to the package wizard), initializing the usercontrol to receive an instance of your package (or the value of some property of your package) is somewhat tricky. I have seen this question from time to time in the forums and […]

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MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Host a Windows Forms usercontrol in a toolwindow from a Visual Studio package.

July 8, 2014

When you create a toolwindow with the Visual Studio package wizard, a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) usercontrol is used. If you are migrating an add-in to a package, chances are that your toolwindows use Windows Form usercontrols and you don’t want to change the forms technology (migrating the add-in to a package is enough work…). […]

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Posted by Carlos Quintero