Hello again @Kerry!
The toolbar components are not automagically installed and appended to Visual Studio as you install/upgrade the NuGet package. You have to follow some manual steps to create it. Unfortunately, the NuGet subsystem doesn't allow this installation to happen. But the bright side is, it is not that complex to add the items to toolbox.
Here is a thread with the step-through that worked for me:
Installing on VS2008
The change actually is that, instead of looking for 'coolite' you'd be entering 'Ext.NET' instead. I believe these instructions readme mentioned in the thread was lost between Coolite and Ext.NET 1 release, but the steps seems the same, given the proper name replacement (
coolite =>
Ext.NET).
In the search I given to the forums, I couldn't find specific instructions for Ext.NET to be more objective. It may be a problem that Ext.NET now resides within the project's
packages/
directory (and is not an installation system-wide as I believe Coolite was back then).
Anyway, I'm transcribing the instructions from the thread above and just changing the
Coolite references to
Ext.NET.
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MANUAL TOOLBOX INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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The following steps are required to manually install the Ext.NET controls into your Visual Studio Toolbox.
1. Open Visual Studio
2. Open an existing or create a new web Project.
3. Open or create a new .aspx page.
4. Open the ToolBox panel. Typically located on the left side in a fly-out panel (Ctrl + Alt + x).
5. Create a new "Coolite" Tab, by...
a. Right-Click in the ToolBox area.
b. Select "Add Tab".
c. Enter "Ext.NET".
6. Inside the "Ext.NET" tab, Right-Click and select "Choose Items...".
7. Wait the the ".NET Framework Components" Tab to load, then click the "Browse" button.
8. Navigate to and select the Ext.NET.dll file, choose open.
NOTE: The Ext.NET DLL will typically be under your project's 'packages/' directory, containing other NuGet packages, something like:
YourProject\Packages\Ext.NET.5.2.0\lib\net46\Ext.Net.dll
9. The component items should now be added to the list and pre-checked. You can confirm by sorting the list by "Namespace" and scrolling to "Ext.Net"
10. Click "OK". The icons should be added to your ToolBox. You should now be able to drag/drop an Ext.NET component onto your WebForm.
11. Enjoy.
Hope this helps!
EDIT: as you are going into a transition between Ext.NET 2.x to 5.x, I suggest you create a tab after Ext.NET's version (like
Ext.NET 5.2.0
so that you can discern between Ext.NET versions the component you are pulling from the toolbox complies to. They should mostly be the same, but there will be new components (and removed/renamed as well) that will not be interchangeable between the two toolbox tabs.