Hello, I've taken a button component and extended it's functionality by adding a couple small methods and properties. This control is contained within my project tree and has been used on various locations of my form. Now, I want to add another property to the control. In doing so I had hop...more >>

Hi, I have a custom control which works on a custom Design-Time surface in my application which is created using IDesignerHost and other necessary interfaces... I need this control to receive drag-drop notifications...I tried several approaches like applying my custom controldesigner to ...more >>

I am making a simple non-visual component and I can load that into the toolbox such that the test WinForm application can drop it into the form. The default icon for this component is a "gear" when I added that to the toolbox. How can I change it to the icon of my choice and how can I create a t...more >>

My goal is to build a non-visual custom component with a PropertyGrid like the TableStyles property of the dataGrid as a Design Time data input tool. I got as far as the following ? System.Collections.ArrayList rsource = new System.Collections.ArrayList(); public ArrayList Source1 { get {ret...more >>

Hi, I'm making some User Controls, and one custom control depends on another custom control... So , I have something as this in UserControl1 text1.text = UserControl2.MyFunction("myparameter")... If I launch the app, it works fine, but if I go to the form where both User Controls are...more >>

Hello everyone, I have a property un my form i would like to set a design time ... and the type of the property is System.Type. I'm trying to do it with an UITypeEditor but it fail to set my value... I'm able to list all the Type I need but when I select it it fail. Thanks alots i...more >>

Can I make a custom form to act like a dialog component (something like FileOpenDialog)? I have set the following attributes to my form without any success: <ToolboxItem(True), Designer(GetType(ComponentDesigner))> _ Public Class MyDialogComponent When I drop the dialog component onto a...more >>

Hello, Can someone let me know if it is possible to create a base form and set the Locked property to True, and then have all derived forms also inherit the Locked property. Currently if I try to do such a thing, the base form sets Locked to True but in the derived forms, this property i...more >>

How do I display a wizard when a component is dropped on the form the way DataSet does? The wizard needs to be displayed before adding the component to the designer so that the user can choose some options for the component. ...more >>

I am making a multi windows-form application where the parent= form is the login form=2EI want every current form to close when I= go on to the next form and not hide it or let it remain= there=2Ebut when I close the parent form the entire application= closes=2Eis there a way to do what I wa...more >>

I'm trying to find a way for changing the thickness of the groupbox borders. I've searched on this site but can't seem to find anything of this subject. Does anyone have a suggestion. Thanks in advance MikeY ...more >>

Hi, I want to show a custom collectioneditor in my property where no items could be added or removed. I just want to be able to edit the current items in that collection? I digged a bit and tried to derive from "CollectionEditor" to make my custom one but with not much success. Can anybo...more >>

Hi! I've 2 questions regarding the PropertyGrid: 1.) How can I also display the events of an object (like in Visual Studio) 2.) How can I display my own control in the 2nd column of a property in the PropertyGrid? (instead of a textbox or a combobox) Thanks Klaus Aschenbrenner MVP Vi...more >>

I'm just curious. I load everything via code at runtime. The only thing I use the Designer for is only for controls that *have* to be placed on a form (or usercontrol) ahead of time. But even then I don't configure them in designmode. I spend 99% of my time editing code, etc. Am I takin...more >>

Greetings, I am having trouble trying to pass data from one form to another within the same application. My project is set up with a main form [Form1] and I added a second form containing a richtextbox control using "add windows form" from the solution explorer [Form2]. What I want to do ...more >>

I have a series of small classes that encapsulate some style information for some custom controls. The types of information in these classes are generally ints, Fonts and Colors. I've applied the ExpandableObjectConverter to the various classes to allow me to expand and set the properties a...more >>

Hi, I have a component using DesignerVerbCollection. When one of the verbs is clicked in VS, I launch a WinForm... The structure of my component is this: Component.cs (component code and Designer code) frmOptions.cs (a properties form for component) ComponentLogic.cs (a single class ...more >>

Hi, I'm designing an User Control, with TypeConverter... If I use this: private ImageList imageList = null; public ImageList ImageList{ get {return this.imageList;} set {this.imageList = value;} } And go to design mode to my User Control properties, I can *magically* select one ...more >>

Hi, I have made a component with a properties windows (using ControlDesigner...) for WinForms. I would like to be able to load Textbox from my components properties window... Have been googling for it with no result... Any help ? TIA...more >>

Hi, As you know for example "DataSource" property is type of string but can show a dropdown populating values from the form which may act as datasource. I want to achieve the same effect to my property, I mean the dropdown part. My Property will be string and the values in the dropdown sho...more >>

I am using a PropertyGrid to expose properties at runtime and I change the line and background colors of the PropertyGrid to match the color theme of my application. I would also like to change the color of category text (i.e., text that corresponds to the System.ComponentModel.Category attri...more >>

(Type your message here) Hi, Im very new to .NET/C# development, so this could be something very simple. I want to add a treeview to an aspx file. In the toolbox, the treeview component is disabled. Is there something I need to do to enable this so as I can use it? Any help would be appre...more >>

Hello, I've created a UserControl that contains several panels. However, when I drop a Control onto one of these panels, the Control will be added to the parent UserControl and not to the Panel itself. I've read some topics on these subject but all these topics describe how to offer only on...more >>

I am trying to get this posted on the MSDN Universal account but have been unsuccessful so far and have yet to receive an answer to this. Is this appearing under a MSDN Universal account? Using the following: <Designer("MyNamespace.MyDesigner, MyAssembly")> _ Public Class BaseControl ...more >>

(Repost as my original didn't have my MSDN registered email addy) Hi all, I'm coding a custom component which is designed to be dropped onto a form and have it's properties manipulated at runtime. I have a custom implementation of the TypeConverter class called UniversalTypeConverter w...more >>

Hi all, It would be grateful if someone could tell me the answer. I have made my own DesignerHost for design-time support in my application, but there is still a problem behind it which reduces its user friendly. For some custom property, with ComplexType, I would like to proivde a customiz...more >>

(Repost as my original didn't have my MSDN registered email addy) Hi all, I'm coding a custom component which is designed to be dropped onto a form and have it's properties manipulated at runtime. I have a custom implementation of the TypeConverter class called UniversalTypeConverter w...more >>

Hi, I've developed a couple of Windows Forms controls. To extend their flexibility, in run-time, I should be able to define/add new properties for those controls. I know that Reflection.Emit namespace is for that purpose. I have searched for possible examples about this and only found th...more >>

I created a user control, some of the controls that it contains make a remote call to get data. If the remote service is not up and running, the control won't display in any form I put it in. In the constructor I have: ScreenHelper.LoadProjectSelect(selProject); ScreenHelper.LoadDamSelec...more >>

Hi All, I'm trying to force VS.NET to serialize items that have been added into a collection. This collection is a property of a complex type, which itself is a property of another complex type which resides in a collection which is a property of my component. Essentially, VS.NET is not...more >>

I want to edit a collection in the designer and it to be stored as well (not binary serialized with all its version problems i got) code should be generated with property init not with a huge constructor. any hints which interfaces how to implement and special stuff about the collection to us...more >>

I have a collection of usercontrols with each usercontrol having the DockStyle set to Top. When I add the controls add design-time, they are added correctly. But when the collection is being persisted the controls are added in the reverse order!!! Is there an easy way to persist controls ...more >>

Hi, I am having a realy annoying problem=2E I'm creating a custom= control, which uses a complex property named GradientColor=2E= GradientColor class is consisted of an (int) Angle, (AlphaColor)= BeginColor and (AlphaColor) EndColor=2E On the other hand, AlphaColor is another class that co...more >>

Hi All I would be grateful for help with this learning problem I am trying to adopt the use of Inherited forms guided by the Simple walkthrough in the VB Help file I have designed & built a mulitpurpose base form class which has a number of controls and a 'New' routine requiring three param...more >>

Hello With [DefaultValue("My string")] I can say to IDE : this defaultValue property is"My string", So it is not necessary to save the value in InitializeComponent method if this property equal "My string" Perfect, But I want to specify a dynamic value Example : If Prop1 equal the v...more >>

Hello again. I was wondering if any of you have experienced the following behavior. I wrote a custom type editor and a custom collection editor. Both work as expected. The problem lies with the collection editor. If I launch the collection editor via the property grid, the editor comes u...more >>

I previously didn't submit this under the MSDN account sign-on. Here is the question again. I have a UserControl that is acting as a container for other controls. This UserControl has a custom designer inheriting from ParentControlDesigner. During design time I want to detect that a contr...more >>

hi, I'm implementing my own "Form Designer" and now want to add Cut/Copy/Paste features for regular controls (textboxes, labels, comboboxes,...). How can I do it ? Thanks for any advice. ...more >>

Hello experts. I have a class called VisualAspect. This class stores information about how to draw things (backcolor, forecolor, font, ...). This class is complete with a TypeConverter (which returns a constructor based InstanceDescriptor), DefaultValue attributes on every public property, ...more >>

hi to all i'm working in VB.NET i need upload a page using receivers FTP info URL username password i need upload the page into receivers FTP using above information. i need u'r help. hoping of help. with regards skumar ...more >>