Visual Studio Toolbox Doesn’t Show Perpetuum Software Components: Solution

Assume that you’ve installed Perpetuum Software products and run Visual Studio in order to have a look at your new wonderful components or to make your first ‘Hello world’ reporting application using them. Most probably, you will see the following text in the Toolbox of Visual Studio:

“Controls in this category are unavailable for the .NET Framework 4 Client Profile. To change this setting, open the Project Properties window.”

Controls are unavailable in C# project

Controls are unavailable in VB project

Visual Studio sets .NET Framework 4 Client Profile to default target Framework. However, the PerpetuumSoft components don’t support for this type of Framework and you need to select the Framework in the Properties of your Application:

Select application properties

Select target Framework in C# application

Select target Framework in VB application

The PerpetuumSoft components will appear in VS Toolbox.

How to add PerpetuumSoft components to VS Toolbox manually.

If components are still not shown in the VS Toolbox, take the following steps:

1. Right mouse click on the Toolbox -> Choose Items:

Choose Items for VS Toolbox
2. The ‘.NET Framework Components’ tab in the window -> Click on the ‘Browse’ button:

Select Toolbox Items in the Window
3. Select the Perpetuum dll libraries from the Bin folder:

Select Perpetuum dll
4. Select the PerpetuumSoft components in the ‘.NET Framework Components’ tab:

Select PerpetuumSoft components
5. Click ‘OK’.

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