How to add User control in the toolbox for C#.net for winforms by importing the dll to the reference?

Question

I have one dll of usercontrol and I add to it to the references in my project. And now I want to access this usercontrol from toolbox but it does not appear in the toolbox.

Answer 1

Right Click on empty field of toolbox and select "choose item" and then go to your project folder and select your dll file (or EXE file)

Answer 2

Right click on the toolbox -> Choose items...

Answer 3

You need to right click on the toolbox, select "Choose Items.." and browse to the dll containing the control.

Answer 4

Drag & Drop the dll (from explorer) to the desired category (in VS 2012).

Answer 5

The user control must have a default constructor. Otherwise it is not shown in the choose items pop-up. It might be also necessary to rebuild solution to add it to toolbox.

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