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This is a workaroung to deal with the migration of ToolBarButton.DisplayStyle to two different ToolStripItem classes: Button and Separtor

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I have this VB6:
    With frmMainForm.tbrMain.Buttons
      .Add , gstrTOOLBAR_BUTTON_KEY_COPY, , tbrDefault, gstrTOOLBAR_BUTTON_KEY_COPY
            ...
      .Add , , , tbrSeparator
      
      The calls are passing the Key, Style, and ImageKey
      
And I get this C#

   withTemp1 = frmMainForm.DefInstance.tbrMain.Items;
   withTemp1.Add(null,modAddToolbarButton.gstrTOOLBAR_BUTTON_KEY_COPY,null,System.Windows.Forms.ButtonStyleConstants.tbrDefault,modAddToolbarButton.gstrTOOLBAR_BUTTON_KEY_COPY);
   ...
   withTemp1.Add(null,null,null,System.Windows.Forms.ButtonStyleConstants.tbrSeparator,null);

and this error:

   The type or namespace name 'ButtonStyleConstants' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Windows.Forms'
   
The IDF has this default definition for The Toolbar.Buttons.Add

   Source Name     = GM.MSCOMCTL.OCX
   Run Date        = 7/24/2019 9:29:03 AM
   Pattern         = "Add"
   Location Name   = DescriptionFile/library:GM.MSCOMCTL.OCX/class:IButtons/method:Add
   
      <method id="Add" type="Button">
         <argument id="Index" type="Variant" status="ByVal" optional="Default"/>
         <argument id="Key" type="Variant" status="ByVal" optional="Default"/>
         <argument id="Caption" type="Variant" status="ByVal" optional="Default"/>
         <argument id="Style" type="Variant" status="ByVal" optional="Default"/>
         <argument id="Image" type="Variant" status="ByVal" optional="Default"/>
      </method>   

This is occurs in a custom IDF that is migrating MSCOMCTL to Winforms.  WinForms.Toolbar.Buttons.Add has this:

        public ToolStripItem Add(string text, Image image, EventHandler onClick);
        public int Add(ToolStripItem value);
        public ToolStripItem Add(Image image);
        public ToolStripItem Add(string text, Image image);

The most useful form is the one that can take a ToolStripItem: either a ToolStripButton or a ToolStripSeparator

   ctor: public ToolStripButton(string text, Image image)
   or 
   ctor: public ToolStripSeparator()

I ended up fixing this with some rules and some hand coding.  It is not general, but for this situation it is clean.

The rules go for this type of translation:

    With frmMainForm.tbrMain.Buttons
      .Add , gstrTOOLBAR_BUTTON_KEY_COPY, , tbrDefault, gstrTOOLBAR_BUTTON_KEY_COPY
      .Add , , , tbrSeparator

becomes:
   
      withTemp1.ToolbarButtonsAdd(modAddToolbarButton.gstrTOOLBAR_BUTTON_KEY_COPY,modAddToolbarButton.gstrTOOLBAR_BUTTON_KEY_COPY);
      withTemp1.ToolbarButtonsAdd();

Here are the rules done as changes to the IDF GM.MSCOMCTL.OCX/IButtons.Add:

      <method id="Add" type="Button" nPram="6" migPattern="%1d.ToolbarButtonsAdd(%3o,%6o)">
         <argument id="Index" type="Variant" status="ByVal" optional="Def.Overload"/>
         <argument id="Key" type="Variant" status="ByVal" optional="Def.Overload"/>
         <argument id="Caption" type="String" status="ByVal" optional="Def.Overload"/>
         <argument id="Style" type="Variant" status="ByVal" optional="Def.Overload"/>
         <argument id="Image" type="String" status="ByVal" optional="Def.Overload"/>
      </method>

Here is the support code:

   namespace MigrationSupport
   {
       public static class MSComctlLibHelper
       {
           public static ToolStripItem ToolbarButtonsAdd(this ToolStripItemCollection tbr, string Caption, string ImageKey)
           {
               ToolStripItem itm = new ToolStripButton(Caption)
               {
                   ImageKey = ImageKey,
                   DisplayStyle = ToolStripItemDisplayStyle.Image
               };
               tbr.Add(itm);
               return itm;
           }
           public static ToolStripItem ToolbarButtonsAdd(this ToolStripItemCollection tbr)
           {
               ToolStripItem itm = new ToolStripSeparator();
               tbr.Add(itm);
               return itm;
           }
       }
   }