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Hi

I am trying to make a plugin to run in Open Dental. The problem I have is after importing OpenDental and OpenDentBusiness project ins the plugin project, somehow, I can only see UI controls of OpenDentBusiness (e.g. ODGrid) but OpenDental ones which are much nicer than common VS.NET controls.

I am wondering if that how OpenDental set up or I miss something to import the OpenDental project properly.

Thanks
H

Read your question again. It's malformed. I don't understand.

OK, I follow the Plugin example instructions. To be able to run it, I need to add OpenDental and OpenDentBusiness projects into PluginExample solution. It all works well and I can compile and run the plugin. However, there are so many nice user controls created in OpenDental project but I could not see any of them from the designer toolbox when I try to add UI controls in plugin GUI.

For example, I create a new form in plugin project, I can't use OD button, ODGrid or OD textbox, numberbox, etc to make the plugin GUI consistent with the main software. I have to use standard .NET controls. The weird thing is I still can see and use a few UI controls created in OpenDentBusiness project.

I hope it's clearer.

Thanks
H

You should be able to right click on the toolbox and import more tools. Pick the project/file/types for what you want to import and show. If that doesn't work, I think you can copy and paste controls from existing forms.

i copy and paste controls