Setting up Extended WPF Toolkit

Question

I'm trying to get Extended WPF Toolkit working in Visual Studio but I'm having difficulties following the short guide on their website: http://wpftoolkit.codeplex.com/releases/view/610794

I've installed it via NuGet and when I right click into the toolbox and try to enable some of the new elements, I can see their are already enabled. They do not however appear in the toolbox itself.

Adding a using statement doesn't give me an error, so VS seems to recognize it.

I suspect it has something to do with XAML files.

7. Add a new xmlns (for example, xmlns:xctk="http://schemas.xceed.com/wpf/xaml/toolkit") to the top of XAML files In your XAML, use the namespace prefix (in the above example, )

8. In your XAML, use the namespace prefix (in the above example, )

I really have no idea what to make of this. I'm not even sure if I have any XAML files. Sorry if this question is really trivial, but I'm fairly new to VS and coding in general.

Answer 1

You have to manually add them - right click in the Toolbox menu, then add a new tab for WPF Extended Toolkit, then select "Choose Items...", select the WPF Components tab & browse to the DLL that you installed (mine was installed to packages\Extended.Wpf.Toolkit.2.3\lib\net40 in the application folder).

Answer 2

If I have understood your question correctly, You need to set xmlns (xml namespace) as

xmlns:xctk="http://schemas.xceed.com/wpf/xaml/toolkit" in <Window> tag

and then build your program to resolve all dependencies.

Later use <xctk:> tag..