I’ve created an extensible control and shared it with consumers via a deployment package. I expected that consumers would be able to right-click in their form and use the “New” dialog to select my control, but it doesn’t appear as an option.
I also tested this in another environment and noticed the control doesn’t show up there either.
Is this approach (sharing an extensible control through a deployment package) supported, or am I missing a step to make the control available in the form designer?
Thanks!
To clarify my setup:
On Machine A, I created Model A in Visual Studio and built a deployable package via VS.
I deployed that package via command line to Machine B.
On Machine B, I created Model B and set it to reference Model A.
I can see Model A listed in the Application Explorer (in italics), although the source code itself isn’t visible—which I assume is expected.
I’m able to create extension classes for the extensible control, but I can’t get them to show up as new controls either. I’m wondering if this is due to inheritance not working as expected, or if I’m missing an extra step to make the control available. I would not expect this is required for consuming the extensible control, though.
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