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Adding the component to a Windows Forms project (.NET 5, 6 and Core 3.1)

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After having installed the component inside the development PC through our setup program, you can add the component to a project targeting .NET 5, 6 and Core 3.1 versions by installing the proper NuGet package using the procedure described below:

 

Open the project you are working on
Inside the "Solution Explorer" right-click the mouse button on the "Dependencies" item
From the context menu open the NuGet Package Manager by selecting the "Manage NuGet Packages ..." item

 

 

By default the NuGet Package Manager will browse packages available on the nuget.org server; although trial versions of our NuGet packages are available inside nuget.org, it's recommended using packages available inside the folder in which you installed any of our components: the default folder is "\Program Files\MultiMedia Soft" so you need to set the mentioned folder as a packages source through the NuGet Package Manager settings

 

 

On the settings form, select the "+" icon

 

 

A new default "Package source" is a automatically added as seen below

 

 

On the "Name" field enter a string that would help identifying the source (we suggest entering "MultiMedia Soft Packages")
Click the "..." button and enter the path where our NuGet packages are installed (by default it should be "\Program Files\MultiMedia Soft\NugetPacks")
By clicking the "Update" button the form should finally look like this:

 

 

Close the form by pressing the "OK" button
The new source could now be selected through the provided combo-box

 

 

Once selected, after clicking the "Browse" tab, all of the MultiMedia Soft NuGet packages installed on the development machine will be displayed (in this case a Trial version of the component)
In order to install the package inside the project, move the mouse of the right of the displayed version (circled in red below): this will cause an arrow to appear (circled in purple below):

 

 

The screenshot above is related to the usage of the stand alone Audio Sound Recorder for ,NET setup package; In case you should have installed the complete "Audio Sound Suite for .NET" setup program (which includes both the Audio Sound Editor and the Audio DJ Studio components) the NuGet Package Manager would display the following:

 

 

Click the arrow in order to start the installation procedure
Once the installation procedure is completed, close the NuGet package manager
Open the form that will contain the component
Open the "Toolbox" and drag the AudioSoundRecorder component into the container form: this will display the component's icon inside the form; the icon will be visible at design-time only and hidden at runtime

 

 

At this point the component is installed and you can start adding the needed code

 

 

The tutorial above is mostly related to the installation of the Trial version of the component; in case you should have already begun developing your application with the Trial version and at a certain extent you should decide to purchase the "Full" version, you would not have to restart your coding from scratch and you could simply upgrade using the appropriate NuGet package; below a simple sequence to perform this upgrade:

 

Close any instance of Visual Studio
Uninstall the setup package of the Trial version from the "Apps" applet of the Windows settings
Download and install the Full version from our website using provided URL and credentials
Launch Visual Studio and open the project you were working on
Be sure to close the form containing the component
Inside the "Solution Explorer" expand the "Dependencies/Packages" item
Right click the "AudioSoundRecorder.Trial" item and select the "Remove" menu item as seen below:

 

 

As explained above for the Trial version, open again the NuGet Package Manager and select the "MultiMedia Soft packages" source
Press the arrow for installing the Full version and finally close the NuGet Package Manager

 

 

The screenshot above is related to the usage of the stand alone Audio Sound Recorder for ,NET setup package; In case you should have installed the complete "Audio Sound Suite for .NET" setup program (which includes both the Audio Sound Editor and the Audio DJ Studio components) the NuGet Package Manager would display the following:

 

 

The upgrade is now completed you can continue your development.