Mark Wills
Member
Hello, this is my first post.
I am trying out Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and am very happy with it. It seems to be quite stable (so far) - I can't wait for the full release!
I have developed a user control as a project, and it works well. When I run the project, Visual Studio launches it inside a small utility called User Control Test Container. Everything seems to work fine. The project produces a DLL.
Now, I want to start a second project that uses my User Control. However, I can't work out how to include this user control in my new project.
In earlier versions of .Net, one had a 'Solution' and could create projects within the solution, but this seems to be missing in Beta 2, or is it just hidden somewhere?
When I open a new project, I go to the Project Menu, and click on Add Reference, but I cannot see my user control anywhere in the lists... What do I have to do to make my control appear? It was easy in VB6, you just compiled it and was registered as a COM component!
Is this something to do with the 'Global Assembly Cache'? I have heard about this, and I presumably have to tell the GAC about my user control somehow. Could someone please provide some pointers. Any help gratefully received.
Many thanks
I am trying out Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and am very happy with it. It seems to be quite stable (so far) - I can't wait for the full release!
I have developed a user control as a project, and it works well. When I run the project, Visual Studio launches it inside a small utility called User Control Test Container. Everything seems to work fine. The project produces a DLL.
Now, I want to start a second project that uses my User Control. However, I can't work out how to include this user control in my new project.
In earlier versions of .Net, one had a 'Solution' and could create projects within the solution, but this seems to be missing in Beta 2, or is it just hidden somewhere?
When I open a new project, I go to the Project Menu, and click on Add Reference, but I cannot see my user control anywhere in the lists... What do I have to do to make my control appear? It was easy in VB6, you just compiled it and was registered as a COM component!
Is this something to do with the 'Global Assembly Cache'? I have heard about this, and I presumably have to tell the GAC about my user control somehow. Could someone please provide some pointers. Any help gratefully received.
Many thanks