TL;DR: Enhance your Visual Studio projects effortlessly by adding custom controls to the toolbox in just 7 steps. Visual Studio automatically manages assembly referencing, so you can focus on selecting and dragging controls onto your designer for seamless integration.
You can add custom controls to the Visual Studio toolbox so that they can be used easily in Visual Studio projects just by dragging them in the designer. To do so, you don’t have to add the assembly reference manually. The reference is automatically added to the Visual Studio reference manager.
To add custom controls to Visual Studio, create a new project (ASP.NET Web Forms, WPF, or WinForms) and open the designer. The toolbox items will only be visible in the designer window. If the toolbox is not visible, click the View menu, and then select the Toolbox option. Now, the toolbox will be displayed. Then:
To configure Syncfusion’s custom controls in your Visual Studio toolbox, refer to this documentation.
In this blog post, we’ve seen how to add custom controls to the Visual Studio toolbox. We hope this blog could help you to configure Visual Studio toolbox easily, to drag the custom controls to the designer.
Syncfusion provides around 1800 custom controls to ease the work of the developers on various platforms. Please have a look and make use of them in your application development.
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