Using Visual Studio designer to edit ChartTrader forms

[JerryWar]

Is there a way to import the code to add one or more of the ChartTrader buttons you can find in the forum into Visual Studio and then use the designer to be able to View , Alter and Add more Controls. It seems a logical step to do this rather than play with the grid code in N.S editor. Can anyone walk me thru this. The first problem I know about is that project output comes in as a DLL library which displays no output. I believe it needs to be set to WPF desktop app. and the code needs to be inside some main form and I don't know how to get the ChartTrader form in.

Jerry

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello JerryWar,

The samples you are referring to don't use xaml so those wouldn't be able to be previewed in visual studios xaml editor. The chart Trader is a built in control so you wouldn't have access to its original source code and xaml file to view it in visual studio. To make modifications to that control you would have to do like the samples you have seen and edit the control using C# code in your script.

[JerryWar]

Jesse thanks for the info, So I am thinking that if I convert one of the current button scripts to xaml just to have an idea of where they locate on the ChartTrader form. I can then display it in VS and add all the other controls I want in VS with zaml coming in more or less automatically as I add the controls. Is there anything wrong with my assumptions or logic here or am I asking for a big headache.
Thanks
Jerry

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello JerryWar,

The chart trader is a built in control, its code is already compiled so its xaml file is not available. I couldnt suggest anything to try and recreate that in visual studio, you would essentially have to remake that control yourself.