A recent experience which might be encountered by fellow travellers ...

I just updated GAT/GAX, SCSF etc with the latest versions. I created a new app with thesmartclient template and noticed the various CompositeUI components did not appear on my VS toolbox so I added them, no sweat. But when I tried to drag a TabWorkspace control on to the design surface I got this:

Failed to create component 'TabWorkspace'. The error message follows:

'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8004D745): A reference to
the component 'Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.Winforms' already exists in the project.

The mistake I made was to choose the components from the original ComponentUI.Winforms.dll. What you have to do is choose the version of the dll used by SCSF.

Hi dickP

Please post this question to the SCSF forums in Codeplex where team members of SCSF hang around and may be able to help you with your SCSF-specific issue.

This forum is for general GAX/GAT development questions and not any of the particular factories.

thanks,
-Victor.