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A library for using Font Awesome in WPF & Windows Forms applications
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Cannot add FontAwesome.Sharp.dll V-5.8.3 to toolbox #27

Closed John0076 closed 4 years ago

John0076 commented 4 years ago

Hello, I try to add the controls of the FontAwesome.Sharp library to the visual studio 2015 toolbox, with these steps: add items to the tab, i.e. Choose Items -> Browse, then select $ (SolutionDir) ./ packages \ FontAwesome.Sharp.5.8.3 \ lib \ net40 \ FontAwesome.Sharp.dll

But I get the following error:

There are no items in '$ (SolutionDir) ... FontAwesome.Sharp.dll' that can be placed in the toolbox.

I get the same error in visual studio 2012-2015-2017-2019. Although in VS 2017 and 2019 the controls are automatically added to the toolbox after installing from nuget.

mkoertgen commented 4 years ago

Hi @John0076, at first glance this seems to be related more to an existing VS issue than to FontAwesome.Sharp.

The closest issue we had with this has been added to the faq, cf.:

Also, resetting the toolbox cache (.tbd) may help, as reported by users having general problems with the toolbox, e.g.

John0076 commented 4 years ago

thanks for replying and being aware :) I will try to solve with the information provided.

mkoertgen commented 4 years ago

@John0076 Likewise, thx for reporting the issue. Let me know if it helps.

John0076 commented 4 years ago

You're absolutely right, it's a VS error. It is no longer possible to add any type of control (that previously worked) to the toolbox from a dll library. However I could not solve. I will keep looking for solutions. Otherwise I will reinstall the operating system and VS.

John0076 commented 4 years ago

Hi, you cannot reset the cache of the toolbox of all versions of visual studio that I commented. I reinstalled everything- Now it works great. Thanks for your help and be aware :) And I find an interesting tutorial with the font Awesome package- Thank you for creating this awesome library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsJJl7Bhvc

regards

mkoertgen commented 4 years ago

Awesome ;-) Thanks for the info on the YouTube-Tutorial! Probably a good idea to add a link to the ReadMe.

fyi @ThomasLey

John0076 commented 4 years ago

Yes, it would be good to add to the readme file. It helped me understand how to use it, regards ;)

Rapheal123-star commented 2 years ago

Hi can I get the dll file for fontawesome.sharp

mkoertgen commented 2 years ago

Hi @Rapheal123-star ,

The easiest way is to download the nuget-package. It's just a zip-file. In the lib-folder you will find the dlls.