I have Visual Studio 2008 installed with my Infragistics controls. We just purchased Visual Studio 2010 and I would like to install it as well as keep VS2008. Can I do this and
how would I install my Infragistics controls in the VS2010 toolbox without screwing both environments up?
Hello legalke,
There is Toolbox Utility available with every ASP.NET installation that adds automatically all of our controls with certain version and CLR to Visual Studio toolbox.
The tool works for Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010.
The tool is available for CLR 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0 and is located by default in:
Start > All Programs > Infragistics > NetAdvantage 2012.1 > ASP.NET > Utilities > Create Toolbox Tab for CLR
Once run it will inspect your system and add our controls to the toolbox of corresponding Visual Studio installation. This means that when you run it for CLR 2.0 for example and you have VS 2005, 2008 and 2010 installed on same machine controls will be added in all these versions.
If you run it for CLR 4.0 however, controls will be added in Visual Studio 2010 only.
If the same controls were added previously they will be removed and added again.
More information you can find here - http://help.infragistics.com/NetAdvantage/ASPNET/2012.1/CLR4.0/?page=Web_Getting_Started_Running_the_Toolbox_Utility.html
If you need further information let me know.
Alex,
Thank you for your well documented and explained response
Spoke to soon. When I tried to run the utility to install the controls it placed it into VS2008 but it did not put them into VS2010. In
addition when I tried to manually add the CLR 4.0 controls to the VS2010 toolbox it would hide the tab not allowing me to use them.
What's going on?
This is very unusual behavior.
Do you close Visual Studio 2010 before running the utility? Also did you install SP1 for this version of Visual Studio?
I can recommend you to remove all Infragistics toolboxes or controls from your Visual Studio 2010, close it and then run the utility again.
In the process of installation you should see if Visual Studio 2010 is recognized correctly by the installer and if there are any error messages shown in the console while utility runs, let me know.