custom component (not control) showing as gray in toolbox

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Hi,

I have created several custom controls that i have in the toolbox and can
drag and drop onto forms with no problem. However, if I create a custom
component by inheriting from " System.ComponentModel.Component" and compile
the runtime and design time versions, the component appears but is grayed
out and not selectable from the toolbox.

Is there an extra step to create drag and drop components?

Thanks

 

[Tim Wilson]

You need a couple more attributes.
http://www.google.ca/groups?hl=en&l...&selm=uWoUlBO3CHA.1280%40TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl

 

[news.austin.rr.com]

thanks tim,

but when i try that my code compiles with no errors from VS but when i try
to build the designer dll, from the command line compiler using my batch
files i get the following error...

MyComponent.cs(9,1): error CS1518: Expected class, delegate, enum,
interface, or struct

i have 2 bat files i use to compile the design time dll, the first bat file
calls the second.

first bat file >>>
BUILDDES.BAT MyComponent.dll MyComponent.cs /o

second bat file >>>
csc /noconfig /define:NETCFDESIGNTIME /target:library /out:design.%1 %2 %3
%4 %5 /r:.\System.CF.Design.dll /r:.\System.CF.Windows.Forms.dll
/r:.\System.CF.Drawing.dll /r:System.Windows.Forms.dll /r:System.Drawing.dll
/r:System.dll /r:System.XML.dll /r:System.Web.Services.dll
/r:System.Data.dll /nowarn:1595
This compiles my designer controls with no problem but I get the error above
when i call the bat file to create the designer component dll. I do not get
an error when i compile the runtime version of the dll from VS.


Any ideas?


thanks

 

[Tim Wilson]

Are you sure that everything defined with NETCFDESIGNTIME is properly scoped
inside a namespace? The error that you got would seem to indicate a problem
there.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...n-us/cscomp/html/vcerrCompilerErrorSC1518.asp

If everything looks ok then if you post the source for your MyComponent.cs
file I'll take a look at it and see if anything stands out.

 

[Guest]

I need your help

I create a component, but when I drag the component and drop in form,
nothing happens.

 

[Tim Wilson]

I replied to the new thread you started.