I was browsing around the VS2005 directory and messing with things... when I came across something very interesting.
I was able to find a bunch of controls (some working, some not), including that really cool VS Tab control!
The tab control and about half the others all throw errors, but I'm working out the kinks and will return with a sample as soon as I get it fixed!
To try it on your own, browse to \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ and add the following DLL to your toolbox (preferably on a new tab, it has quite a bit of components):
microsoft.visualstudio.commonide.dll
It seems to be missing two references when added, but I'm working on tracking down those references.
I'll be back in a few days with a full working sample duplicating the VS IDE UI if I can get it working!
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JoeMcCreary
Tabbing: The tab control doesn't appear to do anything at design time except complain of errors and make it next to impossible (with out changing it via the property window) to switch tabs while designing, though when you run the application, you get some nicely themed tabs. They arent really VS style, they're more like Office2003 tabs in a brownish color.
Tabs are really the only major thing I've uncovered so far, but I have found some neat things like a picture box that handles icons perfectly (no more weird shadowing like with imagelists) and some weird options pages.
I hope to fix the tabbing issues and get a truely VS2005 themed tab going, but I'm pretty busy on an existing project.
Be back later with more goodies.
-Eric
Rebecca23
a site where there are a lot of plug ins for reflector, and reflector itself of course
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx id=0f5846c3-c7aa-4879-8043-e0f4fc233ade
Sandhya
Thanks,
Igal
Dean100000000000000
The Tab control indeed is in microsoft.visualstudio.commonide.dll but for the control itself you don't need any references besides Windows.Forms and System.Drawing.
I decompiled it, put it in my own dll and everything works fine, even in the designer. Also, it's not this brownish office2k3 style that you mentiond but the real whidbey style.
Feel free to ask if you need any hints in how to get this working
andrew17
i use reflector, but then u cant compile a whole file...
please let me know!
thanks, alwin
MarcoDissel