I was trying to use a third-party component developed in C in a VB. NET project. When I tried to add the component to the toolbox the components were always greyed out - disabled.
After much searching on this problem example, one of many: Visual Studio toolbox controls disabled or inactive I found that the components were probably not enabled because they were created for a different sort of project.
The usual example given is "web application" vs. I looked at the demo project that came with the components and the demo project output type is "Windows Application".
The VB. Since this is VS Express, these are the only Windows application types available in the two projects. My question is, what is the difference between these two output types? Can I rebuild the components to work in a "Windows Forms Application" and if so, how?
In the case of "Microsoft Windows", windows programs are software applications that are run on a computer that is also running Microsoft Windows as an operating system. A software application, or program, is a set of logical conditions grouped together to perform some function. Typically a Microsoft Windows application will be run within a "window" although that is not a requirement.
A "window" in the context of software is an area of the screen set aside to run a single program and may or may not have options for controlling the position and size of the program area.
Some examples of Microsoft Windows applications are:. Some after-market and third party libraries have been created to provide this functionality. WPF - look here. Console applications are light weight programs run inside the command prompt DOS window. They are commonly used for test applications. Console-based applications include Alpine an e-mail client , cmus an audio player , Irssi an IRC client , Lynx a web browser , Midnight Commander a file manager , Music on Console an audio player , Mutt an e-mail client , nano a text editor , ne a text editor , newsbeuter an RSS reader , and ranger a file manager.
Windows Application Windows Applications are form based standard Windows desktop applications for common day to day tasks. Microsoft word is an example of a Windows application.
Console Applications don't have user interfaces and are run in the Command Prompt. WriteLine " Web Methods" ; Console. WriteLine "" ; Console. ToInt32 Console. ReadLine ; Console. ToString ; Console. Such applications typically run under all bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the bit versions. Example of Windows application programming using System; using System. Web; using System.
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