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How to get the IDE to generate code

Greg Robinson
4/12/2005 2:45:29 PM

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We have developed our own custom designer. We have a custom control that
uses this designer. We have everything working, except.........

How do we get the IDE to recognize a drag and drop from the toolbox such
that it generates code to add the control to the container's controls
collection?

Fo example, if I add a tabcontrol to a form, add 2 tabpages to it and then
drag a textbox onto the first tabpage, I see the following generated code:

<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub

InitializeComponent()

Me.TabControl1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TabControl

Me.TabPage1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TabPage

Me.TabPage2 = New System.Windows.Forms.TabPage

Me.TextBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

Me.TabControl1.SuspendLayout()

Me.TabPage1.SuspendLayout()

Me.SuspendLayout()

'

'TabControl1

'

Me.TabControl1.Controls.Add(Me.TabPage1)

Me.TabControl1.Controls.Add(Me.TabPage2)

Me.TabControl1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(72, 104)

Me.TabControl1.Name = "TabControl1"

Me.TabControl1.SelectedIndex = 0

Me.TabControl1.TabIndex = 0

'

'TabPage1

'

Me.TabPage1.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)

Me.TabPage1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(4, 22)

Me.TabPage1.Name = "TabPage1"

Me.TabPage1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(192, 74)

Me.TabPage1.TabIndex = 0

Me.TabPage1.Text = "TabPage1"

'

'TabPage2

'

Me.TabPage2.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(4, 22)

Me.TabPage2.Name = "TabPage2"

Me.TabPage2.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(192, 74)

Me.TabPage2.TabIndex = 1

Me.TabPage2.Text = "TabPage2"

'

'TextBox1

'

Me.TextBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(56, 24)

Me.TextBox1.Name = "TextBox1"

Me.TextBox1.TabIndex = 0

Me.TextBox1.Text = "TextBox1"

'

'Form1

'

Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)

Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 266)

Me.Controls.Add(Me.TabControl1)

Me.Name = "Form1"

Me.Text = "Form1"

Me.TabControl1.ResumeLayout(False)

Me.TabPage1.ResumeLayout(False)

Me.ResumeLayout(False)

End Sub

What in the designer generated this

Me.TabPage1.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)

code?

Greg Robinson

Custom Data Systems, Inc.

www.cds-am.net

Re: How to get the IDE to generate code

joeycalisay
4/13/2005 8:52:24 AM

Do you mean you have created your own forms designer? All those code gens
are created by ControlCodeDomSerializer which is default used by controls,
including forms.

--
Joey Calisay
http://spaces.msn.com/members/joeycalisay/

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Re: How to get the IDE to generate code

Mujdat Dinc
4/19/2005 12:00:00 AM

Hi,
To do this derive your control from parentcontrol designer.
ParentControlDesigner receives dropdown message it selfs and and
Deserialize toolbox item from Drop Message And calls Toolboxitem
createcomponentscore function and then adds the return components to its
controls array then during serialization Controls propery has
SerializationVisibilty attriibute "Content" then renders the control as you
want to. Or make your designer recieve the drag & message and make these by
your self..

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