topic Building a Custom Tool in .NET Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/building-a-custom-tool/m-p/549231#M6728 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />We have a customer that wants us to build them a custom tool to use in a ArcGIS implementation of a VB6 app to search and highlight items based on the "Loc_Num" field.&nbsp; We have never done this before and are having a hard time figuring out how to do it.&nbsp; I found the following article, but I don't know where to find the templates or if they even work in later versions of Visual Studio:&nbsp; <A href="http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisengine/dotnet/7bd52ed1-18ae-4aa7-8cde-e9eaed9537fe.htm#CustomTool" title="http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisengine/dotnet/7bd52ed1-18ae-4aa7-8cde-e9eaed9537fe.htm#CustomTool">Building a map viewing application using the ArcGIS Engine controls</A> </P><P></P><P>The functionality to add built-in or custom tools is already included in the VB6 app and I added the built-in "Find" tool which allows me to select a layer and then the "Loc_Num" field to do a search on, but our customer wants to make it easier for their users to not have to select a layer or at least limit the amount of layers they can select from(about 8 compared to the 60+ included in the mxd).&nbsp; Also, when you click on a search result, it only briefly highlights the item with a green dot that is not easy to spot every time.</P><P></P><P>Since the custom tool will be used in a VB6 app, should the tool be created in VB6 or can it be created using VB or C# in Visual Studio 2010 or higher?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 May 2016 20:20:50 GMT BrianKrebs 2016-05-11T20:20:50Z Building a Custom Tool https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/building-a-custom-tool/m-p/549231#M6728 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />We have a customer that wants us to build them a custom tool to use in a ArcGIS implementation of a VB6 app to search and highlight items based on the "Loc_Num" field.&nbsp; We have never done this before and are having a hard time figuring out how to do it.&nbsp; I found the following article, but I don't know where to find the templates or if they even work in later versions of Visual Studio:&nbsp; <A href="http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisengine/dotnet/7bd52ed1-18ae-4aa7-8cde-e9eaed9537fe.htm#CustomTool" title="http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisengine/dotnet/7bd52ed1-18ae-4aa7-8cde-e9eaed9537fe.htm#CustomTool">Building a map viewing application using the ArcGIS Engine controls</A> </P><P></P><P>The functionality to add built-in or custom tools is already included in the VB6 app and I added the built-in "Find" tool which allows me to select a layer and then the "Loc_Num" field to do a search on, but our customer wants to make it easier for their users to not have to select a layer or at least limit the amount of layers they can select from(about 8 compared to the 60+ included in the mxd).&nbsp; Also, when you click on a search result, it only briefly highlights the item with a green dot that is not easy to spot every time.</P><P></P><P>Since the custom tool will be used in a VB6 app, should the tool be created in VB6 or can it be created using VB or C# in Visual Studio 2010 or higher?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 May 2016 20:20:50 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/building-a-custom-tool/m-p/549231#M6728 BrianKrebs 2016-05-11T20:20:50Z