Vista - How do I use toolbox controls in VS2005 Orcas?

In the read me file, they are saying that this is just an early release, and
many of the features are not working.
I am expecting that Microsoft will release .NET 3.0 and the SDK with the
Vista RTM, but I don't see VS.NET ready yet, it looks to me that Microsoft
just shifted every developer there to Windows Vista to get that product
completed in time, so we will have the final runtime and the compilers for
some time, but without the final development tools :-)

Just a personal opinion, the reality maybe different.

"Nightdrive" <misternightdrive@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159899217.581836.227480@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I've got Windows SDK, Orcas and .NET Framework 3.0 installed (all
> downloaded today - 3 Oct 2006, so Sept CTP), and it all seems to be
> working fine.
>
> I've got a Hello World application running using XAMLPad (thanks to a
> third party site - MSDN is no help at all - as usual it's all theory
> and sales pitch and no practical examples). Intellisense works fine in
> VS2005.
>
> What is puzzling me is how to use the VS2005 toolbox with the fancy new
> XAML controls.
> I have all the new controls available, but it seems I am only able to
> drag a single control onto the designer area. If I drag some sort of
> container control, I then can't drag anything else. Double clicking
> seems to work better than dragging, but this replaces the last control
> I added.
> Also, why does the toolbar become unavailable when I'm in the code
> pane? It works with standard .NET controls.
>
> Is this functionality complete? It doesn't appear so when compared to
> drag and drop of controls in standard Visual Studio application.
>
> Any light which can be shed on this will be much appreciated.
>

I've got Windows SDK, Orcas and .NET Framework 3.0 installed (all
downloaded today - 3 Oct 2006, so Sept CTP), and it all seems to be
working fine.

I've got a Hello World application running using XAMLPad (thanks to a
third party site - MSDN is no help at all - as usual it's all theory
and sales pitch and no practical examples). Intellisense works fine in
VS2005.

What is puzzling me is how to use the VS2005 toolbox with the fancy new
XAML controls.
I have all the new controls available, but it seems I am only able to
drag a single control onto the designer area. If I drag some sort of
container control, I then can't drag anything else. Double clicking
seems to work better than dragging, but this replaces the last control
I added.
Also, why does the toolbar become unavailable when I'm in the code
pane? It works with standard .NET controls.

Is this functionality complete? It doesn't appear so when compared to
drag and drop of controls in standard Visual Studio application.

Any light which can be shed on this will be much appreciated.

Nightdrive wrote:

> I've got a Hello World application running using XAMLPad (thanks to a
> third party site - MSDN is no help at all - as usual it's all theory
> and sales pitch and no practical examples). Intellisense works fine in
> VS2005.
>
> What is puzzling me is how to use the VS2005 toolbox with the fancy new
> XAML controls.
> I have all the new controls available, but it seems I am only able to
> drag a single control onto the designer area. If I drag some sort of
> container control, I then can't drag anything else. Double clicking
> seems to work better than dragging, but this replaces the last control
> I added.
> Also, why does the toolbar become unavailable when I'm in the code
> pane? It works with standard .NET controls.

Keep in mind that you are dragging controls onto a Window. That window
has a property called Content. The content property can only have
*one* control. What you need to do is drag a container control that
supports multiple children. One of the panel controls should do the
trick.