Adding Custom Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox
In the Visual Studio Professional Edition, when a project is set to depend on a control library, the control of the dependent control library appears automatically in the project's toolbox. This is not the case, however, for Visual Studio Express Edition. A control must be manually added to the toolbox in order for it to be used by the form designer.
To add a control to the toolbox, right click at the tab where where the control to be added and select "choose items..." from the context menu:
Click the "Browse..." button in the "Choose Toolbox Items" dialog box. The file open dialog box will open. Navigate to the dll of the control to be added and click "open". The control will be added to the list of the controls:
Click "OK" to close the dialog box. The control should show up in the toolbox and available for drag and drop to the form:
