How come I can change the values of X & Y for a Point in a Property Grid but not for a PointF? I suppose a UITypeEditor must be written but all the examples that I've seen don't show how to display the X and Y as to separate values... Is this possible? Thanks, Adrin ...more >>

I'm having a problem getting the designer to update the name of any public child controls of user control when the user control's name is changed. When I try to build after changing the name I get build errors that the child controls name does not exist. If I then build again the name is synch...more >>

Is there an easy way to exit designtime mode in runtime and switch back to designtime? Thanks in advance....more >>

I know that in C#, the Properties box has a second tab that lists all of the available Events for a selected control during design time - it would be really, really nice if this same kind of tab could be used while working in VB - the only way to list events (from what I can tell) is to go into ...more >>

Hi, I've just finished my custom windows form designer application. I can place different controls on my container. However, the next step is to serialize the container. Looking in the MSDN documentation, I need to implement the IDesignerSerializationService interface. After searching th...more >>

Hi all, I tried this one but doesn't seem to work. I looked into the IL for Padding and PaddingConverter but doesn't seem to have a CreateInstance(string)... is it possible at all to specify a DefaultValue for it? Any workarounds? [DefaultValue(typeof(Padding), "{Left=2,Top=2,Right=2,Bottom=...more >>

hello world, i'm quite a newby to .net, and so i try to follow the msdn samples. many samples refer to a System.Windows.Forms.Design.ControlDesigner class, but, what's on ? Visual Studio (IDE 7.1, Framework 1.1) obviously doesnt know anything about a 'ControlDesigner'. Where am i wrong? yours...more >>

hi all, would appreciate if somebody can point me to the right direction in writing a designer surface for my document. just like .resx, xml, xsd files have designers associated with them, i've got a file type .xsx in which needs a designer for it. 1) what kind of designer interface to impl...more >>

I am trying to create image property that will work in the designer. I want the image to be written to the resource file for the class. Here is what I have so far, but I am running into a wall here. The property comes up okay in the designer with the drill button and the file selector. But a...more >>

hi! i have a big problem with the designer in vs2003/c#. i searched the internet but can't find any solution to the problem described below... i would like to create a usercontrol with some content in it. e.g. a titlebar and a stateicon and so on. there is also a panel (i'll name it cont...more >>

When putting user controls in panels on a form, sometimes the designer just loses them. Many people have reported this issue. The potential causes people speculated were the control was not accessible or was changed in the project at runtime so the designer could not read it. We elimina...more >>

Is there a reliable place where I can do some work after all of the properties have been set? Controls/Components that need to know when all properties have been set need to use ISupportInitialize BeginInit, EndInit and use the EndInit call BUT Begin and EndInit are never called when the co...more >>

Anyone know how to change the focus to another control at design time? I have a container control and I want to be able to at design time change to another control in the container control based on the mouse click. I figured that part out, but I can't get it to set the focus with just a simpl...more >>

Some issues we have noticed with the designer: 1. Can not determine design mode before the properties are actually set, making it difficult to code the connection of controls? Is there a way to tell design mode earlier? 2. Controls/Components that need to know when all properties have been s...more >>

hi again :) in VB6 i use the Line to Draw Lines Like when i make Wizard Forms. but in VB.NET i cant find this Control...... it's realy not important Control but nice to make GUI like 3D Lines please tell me where the line Control in VB.NET??? -- ----------------------------------------...more >>

Attempting to inherit my form from a form in a different project. When I try to add the inhertied form, I get the message "unable to load assembly...dll. Ensure that the file is a valid .NET Framework assembly. The base class compiles fine and I do have a reference. Any ideas regarding w...more >>

One of the constructors for an EditorAttribute takes two strings, the type name and the base type name. These strings allow, although do not require, specifying a property editor which is in another assembly from the actual property, without having to reference the other assembly from the assembl...more >>

I'm trying to inherit from a form I've got. Seems easy enough, however, in the base form's Load Event I have something that runs off to a config file on disk (To set the runtime control values). When I inherit this form, it tells me it had an error in creating it because the file doesnt exist a...more >>

I am experimenting with a code generator that creates form class code in vb language using the codedom. I have successfully created a form file (.vb) and when looking at the code everything looks just as the vb designer would create it......however when I open it in VS none of the controls s...more >>

Hello there, I am relatively new to the newsgroups and C#. I have never been disappointed with the groups and always got the prompt replies to my queries.This is yet another strange issue, I am facing. Please please help me to solve this as soon as possible. So here we go ... I am not ab...more >>

Ok, I know this is going to sound odd but this is what I am seeing. I have a form inheritance chain that looks like this: baseform --> childform -- > two seperate endforms (endform1, endform2) When I open the designer for childform I only see the controls that were laid out in baseform. ...more >>

Hi, I get StackOverflow when I return an InstanceDescriptor which represents a constructor which takes it's own type as parameter. Could someone explain why return new InstanceDescriptor(ci,new object[]{date}); causes StackOverflow? Is it again going into the ConvertTo? Why? Short cod...more >>