How to determine project type in VS2008 (C#)

[Rich]

I created a user control in C# in VS2005 under Windows Control Library. It
was a blinking label. It contained a label and a timer and some timer code.
I then wanted to create the same type of user control in VS2008 (C#). I
selected WPF user control library as my project type. I could not find a
timer control in the toolbox in the VS2008 project. So instead I just opened
up the VS2005 project in VS2008 and let VS2008 convert the project to the
VS2008 format. This happened without any errors/problems.

Question: What type of project did VS2008 convert my VS2005 user control
to? I wanted to do it from scratch so I would know how to do it.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Peter Duniho]

[...]
Question: What type of project did VS2008 convert my VS2005 user control
to? I wanted to do it from scratch so I would know how to do it.

See "Windows Forms Control Library" (practically the same name you used in
VS2005, except with the addition of "Forms" in 2008 to distinguish from
WPF).

 

[Scott M.]

WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is a whole different technology for
deisgning forms. It doesn't exist in .NET 2.0 (which VS 2005 worked
against).

You need the normal User Control (without WPF).

-Scott