Hi, There I used a few IExtenderProvider objects to provide properties to other components as extemdee. At the extendee side, I'd like to filter the properties by their "provider". I checked the PropertyDescriptor class, nothing found related the provider information. Anybody could help? ...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem and I hope somebody help me ! We (a very big development team) are using VS Studio .NET 2003 on a very big vb.net project. I have this problem : Steps : 1 - Create a windows form on a project. Then put controls on this form. 2 - compile the project 3 - Create a...more >>

I have a control that I wrote that acts as a layout manager so when I drop controls onto it in the designer it will automatically move and resize them based on certain properties. This works fine. However, there are times that after I move some of the child controls around manually, I'd like t...more >>

Hello, We have an assembly load problem with a custom root designer we have constructed. We separated our designer classes and run-time classes into two separate dlls, and put them in two separate directories upon installation. Both of the directories are added to the registry at HKEY_LOCAL...more >>

I have developed a number of custom control components and given them a number of design time properties. Serialisation works most of the time but sometimes after building, certain properties will magically reset to their default values .... even though the code in the InitializeComponent call sa...more >>

I need to inherit from it so I can remove access to a few properties in the designer. If I use a designer inherited from ParentControlDesigner I lose design-time mouse events. Bob ...more >>

I have to change the BackColor of a TabControl. therefore I have overriden the onPaint-Method of TabControl like this: Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, this.Width, this.Height); SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(Color.YellowGreen); e.Graphics.FillRectangle(brush, rectangle); ...more >>

Hi, Let's say I have a property on a usercontrol that is of type Label. In the dropdown I get a list of all labels on the form, and can pick one - this is great. However, as soon as I pick one, there is a '+' that shows up, which can be expanded, and various properties of this label may no...more >>

Hi I am developing a user control and for that I need to query the component tray controls to find out wether there are any controls such as errorProvider added to the project. If so, I have to list them in my user controls property browser. The problem is that I couldn't found any in...more >>

Hi, I created a new collection class derived from CollectionBase and my component has a property using this derived class... Although I marked my derived class as [Serializable], VS.Net designer does not serialize my component's property? Anybody has a clue? Thanks... Özden ...more >>

Hi, I have a control with a property that I do not wish to be visible at design time. There is a DesignTimeVisible attribute, but that works only on classes - can't apply it to a property, which is what I really want. So its ok for the property to be accessed at run time - just don't want it ...more >>

Anyone know how to determine if a control is a container control? Panel, Form, GroupBox, .. Some inherit from ScrollableControl but groupbox does not... I want to know if a control was intended to be used as a container. Thanks, Schneider ...more >>

I have a class that is a subclass from User Control and I would like to have BackColor have a default value of ... oh lets say Color.White. I noticed that even if I use ResetBackColor and ShouldSearlizeBackColor, it still shows up as bold unless I actually override the property directly and pr...more >>

VS.NET calls lc.exe at build time to extract the licenses from the types in the .licx file, but it doesn't behave the same way as if you called lc.exe from the command line stand alone. The two .licenses files generated are different even though the .licx file is the same. For example, sup...more >>

Hi designers, I've written my own designer following some articles postet here. It works as expected, but I cannot run design time serialization. I tried to get the right service this way: IDesignerSerializationService ds = (IDesignerSerializationService)this.host.GetService(typeof(IDes...more >>

Hi, How does one handle component's initialization when order is important. Here is an example, my component can be used for databinding by others. It is possible that DataGrid.DataSource=myComponent; is placed before my component's initialization by designer. I found that it just depends o...more >>

Hi, I am trying make a WYSIWYG Designer with Drag and drop. Something similar to the ASP.NET desginer which dosent generate code but stores the information to a database. But I am unable to find where should I start I am unable to visualize or decide what should I start with. Can anybody point ...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to associate a simple custom designer with an equally simple windows form. Here is what I have: public class MyDesigner : DocumentDesigner { public override DesignerVerbCollection Verbs { get { DesignerVerbCollection c = base.Verbs; c.Add(new DesignerVerb("MYV...more >>

Hi, we are using VS .NET 2003 to develop Windows Forms apps with C#... We are amazed at how slow VS works, even on top-modern computers with 1GB RAM. Drawing the form, creating new events, saving the project, everything feels sluggish. Feels like I spend more time waiting than actually working...more >>

One of my WinForms projects has recently stopped letting me add data sets to forms or components through the visual designer. When trying to drag a dataset onto the designer I get "Unspecified Error", but no additional information. I can add the data sets through code, and they even show u...more >>

I want to be able to set the PictureBox.AllowDrop property in the designer but it doesn't appear in the properties list. In the MSDN help files 'AllowDrop' is not even listed as a member of PictureBox! even though PictureBox is inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Control which has this property...more >>

Hi, I am trying to build a TypeConverter for a class that accepts a String array as the only parameter in the constructor. Dim signature as ???? Dim ci As System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo = dr.GetType().GetConstructor(signature) Return New InstanceDescriptor(ci, New String() {"a", "b"}, T...more >>

I have a control whose text property I don't want automatically set on creation in the forms designer (i.e. "MyUserControl1"), I want this left blank unless the user specifically puts in a value. Is this possible? I thought about using a custom serializer, but the only thing I could come up with...more >>

Hi, no matter what I do I can't seem to get this to work. I've read every post I can find on this, and none of the solutions help. Basically, I have a collection of objects, that I'd like for users to be able to add at design time using the collection editor. Here is the code for the type and ...more >>

Hi, I want to kwon any other options, opinions, experience, for reports design and integration with windows form .NET How many tools are there, which one is the best ? humm Who have the better integration with the ADO.NET dataset and memory objects ? Thanks in advance MajorTom multi...more >>

Hi all, I've created a combobox column style for the datagrid control. It works fine except of editing properties in the Visual Studio designer . In particular I want to change the property DataSource at design time. Have following code: public class DataGridComboBoxColumn : DataGridColum...more >>

Please, help with the following. I have a property "UserName". When user names are available, I use TypeEditor: derived from StringConverter with public override TypeConverter.StandardValuesCollection GetStandardValues(ITypeDescriptorContext context) implemented, so I'm able to select ...more >>

Is this a good solution for the reports of a desktop application using SQL Server ? Is for easy deployment of any simple application ? Please I need to decide for a report designer for windows forms applications using VS.NET, I'm not satisfied with CristalReports. Is this SQL 2000 RS the...more >>

Hi ! I created a personalized uitypeeditor with a modal dialog to edit a personalized collection in my component. The problem is that when I use this dialog to edit the collection it appears that visual studio don't notice that something has changed. Visual Studio doesn't put the "*" mark on t...more >>

Hi ! I created a windows control with one password property. I would like that the password appear as "*" when typed in property window. I tryed to create a TypeEditor for the password property and overrides the paintValue method, but this doesn't work. I have to problems in result : The "*" a...more >>

I have a component that is a part of a control How make this component NOT be shown in toolbox? P.S. I know there is an attribute, I found it once, now I've spent more than 2 hours trying to figure it out. Sorry, if it too simple ...more >>

Is there a palette statusbar control in vs .net please? I'm using demo version of professional and don't seem to be able to find it. thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.672 / Virus Database: 434 - Releas...more >>