Any support planned for WinForm Designer for .NET 6?

I have had to manually add the RibbonControlAdv to the WinForm designer.  Smart tags are not available in .NET 6.  Also, any edits to the RibbonForm that contains the RibbonControlAdv (such as adding a splitter container) will delete the work done on the ribbon.

Are there any plans to include WinForm designer functionality to the .NET 6 controls?  It takes a good deal of time to manually add groups and buttons to a RibbonControlEx manually through code.







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SM Subashini Mahendran Syncfusion Team March 24, 2022 11:32 AM UTC

Hi Doug,


The .NET core does not have full designer support for custom controls to customize the settings through smart tag and interaction over the controls in the designer. You can find the details in below GitHub query,

GitHub Link: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/4887


Also, they have added designer works in WinForms roadmap. Please refer to the below link also,

https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/main/docs/roadmap.md


As this feature is not available in our product, we have already added it to our feature request list, but we don’t have any immediate plans to implement this feature. At the planning stage for every release cycle, we review all open features. We will let you know when this feature is implemented. The status of implementation can be tracked through our Features Management System.

https://www.syncfusion.com/feedback/19702/need-to-provide-smarttags-and-designer-support-for-ribboncontroladv-control-in
   


If you have any more specifications/suggestions to the feature request, you can add it as a comment in the portal and cast your vote to make it count.    


Regards,

Subashini M.


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