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Getting Started

These are quick setup guides to get you started. You can decide whether to create your Deskband with Winforms or Wpf.

Project Setup

Winforms project setup

• Create a new Winforms Control project in Visual Studio
• Add the CSDeskBand.Win Nuget package
• Make your control inherit from CSDeskBandWin

    public partial class UserControl1: CSDeskBandWin
    {
        public UserControl1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }

Wpf project setup

• Create a new Wpf User Control project in Visual Studio
• Add the CSDeskBand.Wpf Nuget package
• Make the control inherit from CSDeskBandWpf

<deskband:CSDeskBandWpf x:Class="WpfControlLibrary1.UserControl1"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" 
             xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" 
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfControlLibrary1"
             xmlns:deskband="clr-namespace:CSDeskBand.Wpf;assembly=CSDeskBand.Wpf" <!-- Reference the assembly -->
             mc:Ignorable="d" 
             d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="300">
    <Grid>
            
    </Grid>
</deskband:CSDeskBandWpf>

Attributes

There are 3 attributes that are needed on your deskband class

• [ComVisible(true)]
• [Guid("F61EF213-351A-4EAA-82C8-CB9221AC8ABB")]
• [CSDeskBandRegistration(Name = "Sample Deskband")]