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custom control icon

Last post was 05 Jan 2008 at 15:42
Kingston, Canada
  • 13 years ago

    so I made my own custom control dll to add to my toolbox ....

    it gives me a default icon ... what looks like a blue wheel or something ...

    I couldn't find an icon property anywhere, how do I give my tool its own icon?

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  • 13 years ago
    There is no property because that has nothing to do with the class as it's used in code.  That is purely design-time behaviour and, like all design-time behaviour, it is controlled by attributes.  In this case it's the ToolboxBitmap attribute.  Check out the documentation for the ToolboxBitmapAttribute class for more information.
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  • 13 years ago

     Hi there,

    Your bitmap file name must be like your Control fullname : Test.UI.WebControls.LinkButton.bmp

    ToolboxBitmap("AjaxRating.Rating.bmp")
    And set "Build Action" property of bitmap file to "Embedded Resource".
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  • 13 years ago

    I've figured this out now, thanks for the help

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