Custom controls in Cider?

Does Orcas currently support custom controls (user-built classes deriving from Control) If so, I'll try stripping my development project down to basics to see if I can get my custom controls working in orcas again. The custom controls I do have are fairly complicated right now. But it would be worth it for me if I can get them working.

Most of the xaml pages I'm using custom controls in don't seem to recognize the xmlns references I'm using.

Is there a way to specify xmlns references in a way that Orcas likes Will external/signed assemblies help

Visual Studio 200843

Hi Robin,

In current Cider CTPs there's no support for external referenced assemblies, etc. Obviously, referencing assemblies and creating custom controls works fine at runtime, and the tool support will come online in full Visual Studio "Orcas" CTPs in early 2007. At the risk of sounding cavalier, I hope that the current tool limitations don't have too much of a negative effect on your application architecture :-)

sorry for the sad news right now, tho...
chad

Thanks for the response.

I'm getting things done. And loving it. I think I'm doing the right things architecturally (or learning -- sometimes the hard way -- how to do things the right way), but I don't think better tools would have helped me with that.

Very much looking forward to your next release.

Regards,

R