Anyway you can find here in answers link to the SVN repository. Feel free to download it and rewrite it for yourself.

When I tried to install a few controls from library I failed actually (

If your are familiar with SVN you can download full project from http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/wbr_VSToolboxInstall
Within this project the main interest for is in the “InstallVSComponent” class (WBR.VioletTape.InstallVSToolbox.InstallationLogic.Services)

To uninstall components – just find and delete tab from VS.

Thank you for sharing this code. However, I was not able to install a control by using it. I am using VS2008 Team System and I have a question. When I try to install a control called ButtonEx, it gives me “Value doesn’t fall withing the expected range” exception. The ButtonEx control is created in a custom control library called WindowsFormsConrolLibrary1.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;

namespace WindowsFormsControlLibrary1
{
public class ButtonEx : Control
{
public ButtonEx()
{
}

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pevent)
{

base.OnPaint(pevent);
pevent.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Red, new Rectangle(0, 0, 5, 5));

}
}
}

I have created a new Winforms application and do the following when I run it:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using InstallCustomControl.Services;
using System.Reflection;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication2
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();

Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load(“WindowsFormsControlLibrary1″);
InstallToolBar toolbar = new InstallToolBar();
toolbar.Install(assembly.Location);
}
}
}

It throws an exception in the Add method:
foreach (var control in controls) {
var tab = GetToolBoxTab(tabs, control.TabName);
if (tab != null && !control.IsToolBoxTab) {
tab.Activate();

tab.ToolBoxItems.Add(“ButtonEx”, control.Control, vsToolBoxItemFormat.vsToolBoxItemFormatDotNETComponent);
}
}

Please Advice.
Thanks