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all groups > dotnet windows forms designtime > september 2005

Third-party control property at design time
Posted by AlexZh at 9/30/2005 2:56:17 PM
Hi, I have a problem with changing properties of a third-party control at design time when the control is encapsulated into my own user control. I have a third-party control (TPControl) that allows me to change properties at design time. I mean, if the control is dropped on a form and some ...more >>


Deserializing a VB file into IDesignerHost
Posted by David Whitchurch-Bennett at 9/22/2005 12:31:02 PM
More than one way to skin a cat.... Still on the subject of the BasicDesignerLoader class...... I have written a forms designer, implementing IDesigner etc., and this works very well. I am having trouble implementing the BasicDesignerLoader though.. The PerformFlush sub will successfully ...more >>

XML Serialization in the BasicDesignerLoader Class
Posted by David Whitchurch-Bennett at 9/22/2005 12:10:02 PM
Firstly, I am writing my project in VB.NET in VS2005. I am working on a custom forms designer, and am trying to save and load the layout to an XML file. I have overriden the PerformFlush method of the base class BasicDesignerLoader, and want to serialize to XML. Problem is, I can't create ...more >>

VS2005b2 SplitContainerDesigner - designer.Initialize throw an exception
Posted by Günter_Lissner at 9/21/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hallo all, i try to adapt my windows forms editor to .NET Framework 2.0. Generally it works, except with the "SplitContainerDesigner". If i use a "SplitContainerDesigner" like in the following line: aSplitContainerDesigner.Initialize(aSplitContainerComp); an "Object reference not set to...more >>

Panel Inside Custom control set to design
Posted by RoadRunner News at 9/16/2005 5:03:30 PM
"I have a custom control that has a panel inside of it. I need the panel exposed as a control in design time when I place an instance of the custom control onto a form. In other words, I need to be able to put objects into the panel when the custom control has been placed onto a form. By defau...more >>

Serializing Forms and Controls on a Custom Forms Designer
Posted by David Whitchurch-Bennett at 9/15/2005 9:37:03 AM
Hi there, I have successfully created a custom forms designer in VB.NET 2005, and this works very well. However, I cannot seem to see how to load and save the designer's layout, ie. where the controls are on the form, and their properties. I have tried several ways, and researched all af...more >>

custom form designer - IEventBindingService and IReferenceService
Posted by InK_ at 9/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi) I'm implementing custom form designer.It's purpose is to provide design surface and toolbox for designing forms. Also it should make it possible to add event handlers. So i don't need generating any code. I've came across some proplems.The first one is related to Event Binding and the ...more >>

VS2005b2 automatic attribute code generation
Posted by mamu at 9/9/2005 3:07:07 AM
Hi there! I'm writing my own C# component to be used with the Windows Forms Designer. This component has a DesignerSerializer attached. Within my CodeDomSerializer I would like to generate additional attributes that get noted infront of some form controls. Like this: [My.ActionSourceAttri...more >>



Inherited Controls
Posted by Christopher Weaver at 9/5/2005 12:43:30 PM
When inheriting from a superclass, there is one situation wherein I would like to hide some of the inheritted controls at design time. Can I do this? ...more >>

PageControl
Posted by Christopher Weaver at 9/2/2005 11:47:13 AM
Is there some way to make the alignment utilities work on a TabControl page? CTRL-ArrowKey doesn't work either! ...more >>

TabControl
Posted by Christopher Weaver at 9/2/2005 11:06:59 AM
Is there some way to make the alignment utilities work on a TabControl page? CTRL-ArrowKey doesn't work either! ...more >>


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