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Hello,

I have made a component to use in a form.

I have add the component to the tools bar in Visual Studio 2005 to use in
more than one project.

I want to change the Icon asigned automatically by VS2005 to the component.
It seems like a flower.

How I can assign my own icon to the component?.

Thanks in advance.
 
Hi Tomas,

Based on my understanding, you want to assign a customized ICON to your own
component, so that it will be displayed in the ToolBox and designer
component tray. If I have misunderstood you, please feel free to tell me,
thanks.

This is mainly a .Net Winform design-time feature. You may leverage the
ToolboxBitmapAttribute to get this done. Please refer to "Attributes"
section in the link below:
"Building Windows Forms Controls and Components with Rich Design-Time
Features"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/04/design-timecontrols/default.a
spx

Hope this helps.

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I have this error:

Error C2337 'attribute name' : attribute not found.

This attribute name is not avalaible on this version of Visual Studio.

Where I can find the list of attributes available?
 
Hi Tomas,

Thanks for your feedback.

Can you provide a little sample project to help me reproduce this error?

I have created a CLR C++ Winform Control Library project and apply the
attribute like below:

[ToolboxBitmap("c:\\ico1.ico")]
public ref class CLIControlControl : public
System::Windows::Forms::UserControl

This project compiles without any problem.

In another C++ CLR Winform project, I added the CLIControlControl in the
ToolBox manually, the icon will display well.

Note: the size of the bitmap that you used should be 16 by 16.

Thanks.

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Tomas said:
I have this error:

Error C2337 'attribute name' : attribute not found.
Click to expand...

You might need to use the full name,
::System::Drawing::ToolboxBitmapAttribute and/or add a reference to
System.Drawing.dll
 
You might need to use the full name,
::System::Drawing::ToolboxBitmapAttribute and/or add a reference to
System.Drawing.dll
Click to expand...

Yes, you are right, I have made this:

[System::Drawing::ToolboxBitmapAttribute("C:\\app.ico") ]

My Icon is 16x16 size, but not all colors are displayed in the toolbar, but
it does not matter.

Thanks.
 
Hi Tomas,

Thanks for your feedback.

Oh, do you use "Windows Control Library" project type to create your
component? If you are using "Windows Control Library" project type, there
will be an already "using namespace System::Drawing;" in the file, so the
full path of "System::Drawing::ToolboxBitmapAttribute" is need. So I
suspect you are creating "Windows Class Library" project type, which will
not add "using namespace System::Drawing".

Anyway, glad to see you have figured it out. Regarding the further color
not displayed issue, I assume VS IDE can only support 16 colors in the ICO
file, so some other colors may not be displayed correct on it.

If you still need any help or have any concern, please feel free to tell
me, thanks.

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Oh, do you use "Windows Control Library" project type to create your
component? If you are using "Windows Control Library" project type, there
will be an already "using namespace System::Drawing;" in the file, so the
full path of "System::Drawing::ToolboxBitmapAttribute" is need. So I
suspect you are creating "Windows Class Library" project type, which will
not add "using namespace System::Drawing".
Click to expand...

I have made this:

[ System::Drawing::ToolboxBitmapAttribute("C:\\app.ico") ]
public ref class WindowState : public System::ComponentModel::Component
{
....
};

It is a class that save/restore the window size and position for every form
in the application.

Thanks for your help.
 
Hi Tomas,

Thanks for your clarify.

Yes, class library component project does not using the namespace of
System::Drawing by default, so you may have to add it yourself or use the
full namespace to specify the ToolboxBitmapAttribute.

If you need further help or any concern, please feel free to post, thanks

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
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