In my designer host, if I have a MainMenu component called "mainMenu", I am unable to get a Designer using the following techniques:

GetDesigner(mainMenu);
TypeDescriptor.CreateDesigner(mainMenu, typeof(IDesigner));

I would like to get this to work ASAP, so I don't want to wait for MenuStrip.

Does anyone know how to get the IDesigner that Visual Studio uses for MainMenu design?

Thanks,
Greg

Hi,

Designer for Menu class (base class for MainMenu, MenuItem and ContextMenu) is in Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll assembly (can be found on Microsoft Shared folder or Visual Studio/SDK/bin folder).

Adding reference to that assembly or loading the assembly on runtime would allow you to get/create the designer's instance by calling:

IDesigner menudesigner = TypeDescriptor.CreateDesigner(mainMenu, typeof(IDesigner));

Regards,

-chris

Hi,

Designer for Menu class (base class for MainMenu, MenuItem and ContextMenu) is in Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll assembly (can be found on Microsoft Shared folder or Visual Studio/SDK/bin folder).

Adding reference to that assembly or loading the assembly on runtime would allow you to get/create the designer's instance by calling:

IDesigner menudesigner = TypeDescriptor.CreateDesigner(mainMenu, typeof(IDesigner));

Regards,

-chris

Chris,

Thank you very, very much!

-Greg

Hmm...

Are we allowed to distribute Microsoft.VisualStudio.dll?

If anyone knows, please respond, otherwise I will contact Microsoft to figure out if I can distribute that assembly.

Thanks,
Greg