OpenNetCF's Groupbox & VS.NET

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Donkey Agony

OpenNetCF.org's Groupbox looks great. But I'm missing how to use it in
VS.NET 2003.

When you download the zip, it contains six files, a EULA, and five DLLs.
I take the one I'm interested in (OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms.GroupBox.dll)
and drop it in the project directory. I then right-click on the toolbox
and add a .NET component by browsing to that DLL and selecting it. It
shows up on the toolbox, but it's grayed out, and has no functionality.

???
 
Sounds like you are adding the runtime dll to the toolbox - not the
designtime version. The file you should add to the toolbox is
design.OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms.GroupBox.dll

Peter

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Peter said:
Sounds like you are adding the runtime dll to the toolbox - not the
designtime version. The file you should add to the toolbox is
design.OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms.GroupBox.dll
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Except there is no such beast in the binaries download at

http://www.opennetcf.org/download.asp?product=Forms

(nor in the source download).

Does this mean if one wants to actually use the control in VS.NET, one
has to get the source and make the designtime version of the control
oneself?

If so, what is the purpose of the binaries download?
 
Actually I just checked and it doesn't look like we included any
design-time libraries in the download. All I can say is oops,
sorry about that. You can always download the source and build
the designer version yourself until we get it remedied.
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I notice it still hasn't been updated -- is new functionality being
added for a new distribution?

Thanks,
 
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