The “Navigtionmenu” control is not showing up in the Toolbox in a .NET project VS2010 and 2012 - vb.net

Why The “Navigtionmenu” control is not showing up in the Toolbox in a .NET project VS2010 and 2012?
but why did the screenshot I got from google below appear toolbox "NavigtionMenu"?
Thanks
jack

I just did a search here for "navigationmenu" and got no relevant matches, so I don't think that such a control even exists. Given the generic icon in that screenshot, it's probably a third-party control or even second-party, i.e. created by the person who posted that screenshot. In fact, I think that that is the icon that used to denote a user control and is still used for a user control in the Add New Item dialogue. I suggest that you check that link you found and see whether it includes instructions for creating it.

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App modeller, Identify button not showing up in blueprism spying

I am creating calculator VBO in blueprism object studio.
In application modeller I gave calc.exe path and able to launch calculator, but I am not getting identify option to spy on any element..
In Element, After clicking Launch buttion, identify is appearing for a split of sec and Launch button is coming back instead of Identify
PS- As mentioned in videos and links, I have launched calc via application modeller not directly via windows..
I am using windows 10, BluePrism V.5.0.11.0 versionenter image description here
Windows 10 calculator is complicated case, please consider using different application in your training. For example paint is much simpler to get started.
If you really need to get that going, then you may need to launch application first, using one object, and afterwards use second object to attach and interact with it.
can be two reasons
1. Either your application is not launched properly.
2. Sometimes we face problems with some versions of applications.
The best way to fix your problem is
Edit your settings remove the application path from the navigate stage.
Launch the application separately
Open Navigate stage > Action > Attach
Provide the window title within quotes (example: "Calculator")
Click OK then run the object
Now if you go to application modeller
You will be able to see the identify button under the element.
Hope this will help you.
I resolved this by unchecking "Disable invasive techniques (hooking)".
The Windows 10 calculator runs with process name win32calc which is also located under c:\windows\system32.
So when you launch the application please make you identify the applications process name and its location
I resolved this by circumventing to windows 7 calculator instead of a windows 10 calculator on windows 10.
Link to download win 7 calculator for win 10-
https://winaero.com/download.php?view.1795
This will be installed in the same place as your default calculator.
Inside-
C:\Windows\System32
The name of the app in my case was "calc1.exe" to avoid collisions with the default calculator.
I used this as my base reference app for spying and it worked.
Also note, the hover to highlight button seems to be a bit buggy, try a bit hit and trail to get you required button to be highlighted and mark using "Ctrl+LeftClick"

why does Visual Studio modify "Windows Form Designer generated code" on designer open?

When working w/ a WinForm project in VS.NET 2015, our team has noticed that the mere act of opening a .VB form in the designer view (default action when double-clicking the file in Solution Explorer) will cause VS to modify many object properties in the "Windows Form Designer generated code" section of the actual .VB code-behind. It seems to be limited to the .Size and .Location properties for sometimes dozens or more of UI objects, always changing their X,Y coords just slightly.
Mind you we don't perform any action to drive this -- simply open the file (obtained from source-control and residing in the local solution/project) in VS.NET's form designer by double-clicking the file in Solution Explorer, and bam -- it has the "unsaved" asterisk and if you save it and compare to source control version you can see the modifications already made.
I couldn't find much on this. Is this a known behavior? Any idea why it does this? Kind of reminds me of the old days w/ MS FrontPage's designer view, and even the early days of ASP.NET in VS which would apply some HTML changes if you opened a WebForm in designer view, until they gave the option to disable that on a later release.
thanks for any input.
UPDATE: this appears to be continuing even with myself as the only editor of the .VB form in designer. various form elements are shifting their position very slightly. Here's a diff screenshot between my last check in and today, and I know I'm the only one editing:
...there are many like that. Always these two properties, always just a few pixels difference.
I don't have an specific answer for this, but since this drove us crazy a bit a few months ago with my team, while working on a WinForms project, I am glad to share my experience!
Every time someone opened any form on VS2015, it would ask other people who has the same solution open at that time to reload the code. We first thought the third party controls (at that time it was both DevExpress and Infragistics) we are using were re-generated on designed initialization - because they tend to do that a lot but then we realised this kept happening on forms that only contains .NET controls.
Now the funny part. This only happened to us on VS2015. We were using VS2013 before, without this annoying problem.
Long story short, then we realized the screens we are using have different DPIs, just like Cody Gray said. I am not absolutely sure if this was the reason, but since we started using TFS, obviously we don't have the problem anymore... Hope this helps somehow lol.

How to resolve Windows Forms designer issue - controls move on debug?

Is there a reason / fix for this weird designer issue (at least, I think it's related to the designer), whereby the controls on the form do not appear as they do in the design window when I debug the application..!
Please see the following two screenshots to demonstrate the problem (note: I have blacked out some of the content of the form, this is not the problem):
Picture 1: Showing how the form appears in the designer view
Picture 2: Showing how the form appears in debug mode
You can clearly see that some of the buttons have moved position on the form.
Note: At first glance, this may appear like a duplicate of: Windows Forms Designer destroys form layout. However, I have not installed any additional tools or components. This is simply a standard "vanilla" build of Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 7 32-bit.
I've also come across this question: UI Controls Overlapping & Fonts Issue in Windows Forms Application. However, I am not using "large fonts", nor am I using any non-standard fonts on my controls (all label and button text is left as default). Still, I can see how this would affect the control positions and will do some more checks in this area.
There's nothing happening within the form's Load method.
I'm also using TFS 2012.
What could be causing this? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
EDIT: I've removed the font property for each label and button control, allowing the system to set the default value. Still no change. Interestingly, if I open the form in design mode, then save it, then close it, then open it again, the buttons have moved... If I do this a few times, the buttons migrate until they're off the form.
OK, I've found the answer, after a bit more fiddling. It seems to be related to the Anchor property on the controls. I made a bunch of changes, testing between each change to see if there was any difference. When I selected all the controls and set the Anchor property to Top, Left, this solved the issue.
I hope this helps someone else at some point!

where i can find input panel, i can't find it in toolbox?

I want to handle SIP. So i have gone through the article http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/archives/42
. I don't find Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.dll in the references. Then i downloaded the dll and tried to add it to the project, then it gives an error that it can't be added because its not build in Microsoft.Phone.Runtime environment.
So how can i get the dll and input panel.
That dll is for Windows CE, which is NOT the same as Windows Phone 7. The SIP for WP7 is handled by the operating system and is displayed automatically when a text input control receives focus (TextBox, PasswordBox, etc).
There is an article that discusses creating a Bulgarian keyboard, but it requires a custom input control, too.

Adding an item to the system context menu

How do you add an item to the system context menu? I would like to let my users be able to right click anywhere and launch this program. I cannot seem to find it documented anywhere either.
Thanks for your help!
I am coding in vb.net
What you're looking for is creating a Shell Extension Handler for Windows Explorer.
Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776881(VS.85).aspx
Unfortunately doing this in a .Net application is a bit of a problem due to the way in which the CLR is loaded for COM plug-in style extensions. Raymond did a great job of exploring this problem here
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/18/1317290.aspx