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title: Adding RadControls to Visual Studio Toolbox in .NET Framework Projects
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page_title: Adding RadControls to Visual Studio Toolbox
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description: Telerik UI for WinForms are automatically added to Visual Studio Toolbox during installation. But there are also two ways to manually do that.
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description: Telerik UI for WinForms is automatically added to the Visual Studio Toolbox during installation. But there are also two ways to manually do that.
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slug: winforms/installation-deployment-and-distribution/adding-radcontrols-to-visual-studio-toolbox
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tags: adding,radcontrols,to,visual,studio,toolbox,net framework
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# Adding RadControls to Visual Studio Toolbox in .NET Framework Projects
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Telerik UI for WinForms are automatically added to Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012/2013/2015/2017/2019/2022 Toolbox [during installation]({%slug winforms/installation-deployment-and-distribution/installing-on-your-computer%}). If however they do not appear in the toolbox after the installation, you can do this manually. There are two ways to manually add Telerik UI for WinForms to the Toolbox in your Visual Studio.
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Telerik UI for WinForms are automatically added to Visual Studio 2019/2022 Toolbox [during installation]({%slug winforms/installation-deployment-and-distribution/installing-on-your-computer%}). If, however, they do not appear in the toolbox after the installation, you can do this manually. There are two ways to manually add Telerik UI for WinForms to the Toolbox in your Visual Studio.
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>caution This article is relevant when using .NET Framework. For .NET Core or newer versions, please refer to [NET Core Toolbox Version]({%slug core-toolbox-version%}).
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## Using the Visual Studio menus
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1. Run Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012/2013/2015/2017/2019/2022.
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1. Run Visual Studio.
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1. Open any windows forms project/solution.
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1. Open any Windows forms project/solution.
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1. Expand the Toolbox.
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## Using the drag-drop approach
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1. Run Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012/2013/2015/2017.
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1. Run Visual Studio.
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1. Open any windows forms project/solution.
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1. Open any Windows Forms project/solution.
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1. Expand the Toolbox.
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1. Right-click the Toolbox in the empty area underneath and choose __Add Tab__ to create a new tab. Name the tab "__Telerik UI for WinForms__".
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1. Open a Windows Explorer and locate the Telerik assemblies folder.  
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1. Open Windows Explorer and locate the Telerik assemblies folder.  
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>tip If you have installed the controls with the default settings then it would be this directory: 'C:\Program Files\Telerik\UI for WinForms\Version\Bin' or 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Progress\Telerik UI for WinForms R2 2019'. For the .NET2.0 version the assemblies are in the 'Bin' folder, for the .NET4.0 version the assemblies are in the 'Bin40' folder (note that currently RadRichTextEditor and RadSpellChecker are only available in the .NET4.0 version).
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1. Select the following assemblies and drag-drop them to the empty space in the newly created tab in Visual Studio:
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* Telerik.WinControls.SpellChecker.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.GridView.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.RadChart.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.RadDiagram.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.RadDock.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.RadMarkupEditor.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.Scheduler.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.Themes.Aqua.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.Themes.Desert.dll
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* Telerik.WinControls.Themes.Office2007Black.dll
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>Resetting the toolbox through the __Reset__ context command will remove the tools from the toolbox. If you need to reset the toolbox, just add the controls as described above.
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## Troubleshooting
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Make sure that the Telerik WinForms controls are added in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) as described in the [Add/Remove RadControls to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)]({%slug winforms/installation-deployment-and-distribution/application-deploymentadd-remove-radcontrols-to-the-global-assembly-cache-(gac)%}) topic.
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__Telerik assemblies do not appear in Visual Studio's Add reference dialog although they are added in the GAC__
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__Telerik assemblies do not appear in Visual Studio's Add reference dialog, although they are added in the GAC__
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To display your assembly in the __Add Reference__ dialog box, you can add a registry key, such as the following, which points to the location of the assembly:
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\Telerik UI for WinForms Q1 2014]@="C:\Program Files\Telerik\UI for WinForms\Q1 2014\bin\"
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> note You can create the this registry entry under the __HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE__ hive. This will change the setting for all of the users on the system. If you create this registry entry under __HKEY_CURRENT_USER__, this entry will affect the setting for only the current user. 
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> note You can create this registry entry under the __HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE__ hive. This will change the setting for all of the users on the system. If you create this registry entry under __HKEY_CURRENT_USER__, this entry will affect the setting for only the current user. 
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More information about this topic you could find in Microsoft Support Center: [How to display an assembly in the "Add Reference" dialog box](http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306149)
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* Multiple entries per control, number increasing with each start of the IDE: this is the worst scenario we have come across. All the registry entries and files on the customer machine seemed fine in this case. The only fix we were able to apply was a complete uninstall of Telerik UI for WinForms and Visual Studio 2010, followed by a clean install of the IDE and the suite.
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* Multiple entries per control, number increasing with each start of the IDE: this is the worst scenario we have come across. All the registry entries and files on the customer machine seemed fine in this case. The only fix we were able to apply was a complete uninstall of Telerik UI for WinForms and Visual Studio 2022, followed by a clean install of the IDE and the suite.
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# See Also
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## See Also
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* [How to Deal with Multiplied Controls in Toolbox]({%slug multiplied-controls-in-toolbox%})
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* [How to Deal with Multiplied Controls in Toolbox]({%slug multiplied-controls-in-toolbox%})

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