C#.net 2008 custom controls

Question

As two girl developers at work we want to to know how to do the following in a C#.NET 3.5 non-web application: 1. I have a delgate in one project and I want to have the delegate be executed from a click event in another project. How do I setup this type of a project refernce? (Note: This is existing code that is not working. Some other programmer wrote it.) 2. I have setup a control that I want to share with several projects within one solution and a copy of different solutions. Thus can you tell me: a. How to compile(build) the custom contol to generate a DLL? b. Once I have the DLL where do I place in the folders so that various projects can access it? C. What do I do in the .net to solution to add it (be connencted) to other parts of the solution? What should I do to include the custom control in other C#.net solutions?

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Mahesh: Note that my comment was about the question  not the answers. I am sorry that I was not as clear about that as I could have been. My comment was intended to say that when the same question is posted more than once then people trying to help might waste time by answering something that someone else has already answered. I really thought for sure that the forums rules request that questions not be posted more than once; am I wrong? I thought that the rules say that posting a question more than once might be considered spam. I often see the same question posted many times and it is frustrating to spend time answering a question that has already been answered. Are you saying that the forum moderators think it is acceptable to waste people's time? When a question is answered more thn once in more than one thread I have never seen answers in more than one thread getting credit for helping.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Sam It is possible two people answer same way. I have seen that Mike and I answered same question exactly same at the same time. Then we talked to each other. I do not see this as a major problem. It is a community and we should live together happily and not worry about these little things. Cheers! Mahesh

Sam Hobbs · Answer

PJ Martins' answer is very much like mine in C# controls . I think the forum moderators request that people don't post the same question more than once.

PJ Martins · Answer

You can create your DLLs by creating a Class Library project and sticking your custom controls in there. Once you have done that create a solution with the project that will be using the user control and add the Class Library project to the solution. You can then add a reference to the project with your custom controls by Add Reference and selecting it from the Projects tab.