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all groups > dotnet windows forms designtime > july 2004

User Controls Property VS .resx files
Posted by Tony at 7/30/2004 5:03:43 PM
Hi all, I have a simple question here. I developed a user control which inhreits from the UserControl class. I exposed an custom property and then build the project. In another project, I added this control to a Window Form, set that property to a value, save and build the project. Everything...more >>

Designer serialization samples?
Posted by schneider at 7/30/2004 2:32:21 PM
I look for a sample on how VS serialize/deserialize a Form in the designer. So If a was making an IDE how could I serialize/deserialize a form... Anyone have a sample to start from? Thanks, Schneider ...more >>

User Control Constituents As Containers?
Posted by mlanza NO[at]SPAM lycos.com at 7/29/2004 4:21:46 PM
I am designing a user control that is made up of several constituent controls (Panels to be precise). Basically, my user control is made up of 4 Panels that I am using to define a very specific layout. The goal is to add this "Layout Control" onto a form and then to drop certain controls direc...more >>

Urgent Problem in adding Events tab to propertygrid
Posted by gurjinder NO[at]SPAM beesys.com at 7/29/2004 12:21:45 AM
Hi, I am making a form designer. It is same like VS.net IDE. I am facing difficulty in adding Eventstab to propertygrid control. In some forums it is mentioned that just assign some Site to sIte property of propertygrid and then just do grid.propertytabs.addtabtype(typeof(eventstab),Pr...more >>

My controls keep dissapearing!
Posted by Simon at 7/27/2004 4:49:15 PM
I have a c# solution containing the following projects - a windows form control library containing some custom windows form controls a windows form app with forms containing these controls (with a local solution reference to the controls proj) Randomly(?) the designer will just wipe these co...more >>

Custom component problem - ANY help appreciated
Posted by Alexander Kolev at 7/27/2004 11:17:07 AM
I'm writing a .Net component in C#. Let's name it component A. This component represents a collection of other .net components ( component B ) that are not visible design time in VS 2003. Component B provides several events. I take advantage of the .net Collection Editor and the addition and r...more >>

Updating Properties Window at design-time
Posted by Jamie Burkholder at 7/26/2004 8:26:59 AM
I have a control designer that is manipulating my control through the use of a verb on the property window. Everything works fine except for the fact that the property that I am modifying is not updated to its current value until the user clicks on the property in the Properties windows. Is there...more >>

control throws exception at design time
Posted by Mitch at 7/23/2004 9:21:02 AM
I create a new control (derived from Control, not UserControl). The OnPaint method is driven by application data. In other words when the application is running it passes the data to the control, and the control does the painting. When I drag the control to a form in the VS designer, that data...more >>



non-resizable control
Posted by Victor Irzak at 7/21/2004 1:19:41 PM
Hello, How can I disable resizing for a custom control in design-time? TrackBar control, for example cannot be vertically resized. Thanks, Victor ...more >>

Problems with IsupportInitialize and CodeDom
Posted by Dennes Torres at 7/18/2004 6:48:34 PM
Hi ! I created a new component for my project. One of the properties of this component is a collection of a class created by me, I called this class "UmaTabela" The class (each element in collection) has two properties, one of them is another class, created by me. I called this class as "Mape...more >>

How to get the parent form?
Posted by Deena at 7/15/2004 4:47:36 PM
I want to get a reference to the parent form in the constructor of a child form? I.e. I want to do something like this : FormX Child = new FormX(); //FormX inherits from the Form class In Child's constructor I want find the parent form? I've tried .Parent and ..FindForm() to no avail! Rea...more >>

Relative path for <value> of .resx data element (ResxFileRef)
Posted by Ly Lam at 7/13/2004 3:24:45 PM
In my .resx file (below) I wish to reference an external bitmap that is located in my project's folder. When I try to compile the project I get an error on my .resx file: Resource transformation for file 'Images.resX' failed. Could not find file "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET ...more >>

Problem: Assemblies cannot be replaced at VS designtime
Posted by Bernd S at 7/6/2004 5:26:19 PM
Hi, is it possible to copy assemblies from the original place in the solution to another place in the file system and then - at Visual Studio designtime, in order to create an instance descriptor for a property for code serialization in InitializeComponent - loading them from there (in order t...more >>

Edit addButton and removeButton in CollectionEditorForm
Posted by magic13 NO[at]SPAM korea.com at 7/4/2004 10:59:23 PM
I implemented a class that inherited the System.ComponentMode.Design.CollectionEditor. It's has two buttons - addButton(Insert) and removeButton(Remove). I want to change their Enable property to false. How can I try for it? Reference) I can control their Visible property to false....more >>

IExtenderProvider: How can I change property name?
Posted by WALDO NO[at]SPAM WALDOLand.com at 7/2/2004 6:51:46 AM
I have a class, let's call it ExtenderComponent, that implements IExtenderProvider. It Extends a property called ImageIndex via CanExtend, GetImageIndex, and SetImageIndex. What I want to do is on the component that it is extended to (extendee), have the property simply read 'ImageIndex', rath...more >>


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