Comments on: Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update

By: Ning Zhang

Ning Zhang — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:14:04 +0000

@Morten
Sorry for the delay, Morten. Below example shows the new way of registering controls with Visual Studio toolbox:
c:\>reg query “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\microsoft sdks\silverlight\v3.0\AssemblyFoldersEx\SilverlightToolkit0910″ /s

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\microsoft sdks\silverlight\v3.0\AssemblyFoldersEx\SilverlightToolkit0910
(Default) REG_SZ C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v3.0\Toolkit\Oct09\Bin\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\microsoft sdks\silverlight\v3.0\AssemblyFoldersEx\SilverlightToolkit0910\Toolbox

By simply adding Toolbox subkey under your AssemblyFoldersEx registration, all assemblies under the registered folder will be scanned and all controls in those assemblies will show up in VS toolbox, except those with ToolboxBrowsableAttribute(false) specified.

By: Morten

Morten — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:07:10 +0000

Since you guys don’t share the source for the installer (I think you should), could you share the registry keys needed to get VS to pick up your assemblies automatically and how to create the toolboxes in VS?

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:19:19 +0000

Great info! Rather than writing a series of posts on how the design time experience is implemented, I’d much prefer to see more posts like this one that describe the details of the design time experience. It seems like many of the walkthroughs I’ve found on VS2010 are focusing on installation or highlevel overview of features, not the meat and potatoes detail of the XAML designer & toolkit like you’re providing in this post.

By: Ning Zhang

Ning Zhang — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:42:28 +0000

@Justin Angel
You wrote the spec

By: Justin Angel

Justin Angel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:12:45 +0000

Loving it
Great Work!

– Justin Angel