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all groups > dotnet windows forms designtime > june 2006

Annoying behavior of the Design Editor
Posted by SHB-MSDN NO[at]SPAM newsgroup.nospam at 6/29/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi, does anybody has the same problem, that quite often when you try just to select an object on a form, the Designer instead of just selecting the object inserts an unwanted OnClick event handler e.g. private void label1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { }and I defenetly didn't do a ...more >>


VS 2005 - new properties for controls
Posted by daniel at 6/22/2006 1:05:31 AM
Hi, In VS 2005 there are new propertis for a control (like GenerateMembers, Modifiers..). I would like to create a custom control and to hide them. What should I do? Thanks, Daniel ...more >>

Cannot write to a richtextbox control from outside
Posted by havish14 NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 6/21/2006 1:29:58 PM
Hello guys, I'm just a newbie as far as VS2005 and winforms go, so please bear with me on this question. I'm implementing a windows forms application that has tab controls and one of the tabpage containing a rich text box. I have a public function in "Form1.h" that takes in a string as input a...more >>

Object of type 'MyType' cannot be converted to type 'MyType'
Posted by Thomas Pagh at 6/16/2006 1:23:02 AM
Hi, I am experiencing some weird problems with Visual Studio 2005's Property Grid in the designer, whenever I rebuild my assemblies containing my custom TypeConverters. It seems to me that the Property Grid doesn't reload the rebuilded assembly. I have created a class called CornerType w...more >>

Component shows up as being private
Posted by wolfmail NO[at]SPAM writeme.com at 6/14/2006 11:26:34 PM
Hello all, I have created a custom component to implement our business objects. I'm able to drag a BO into my designer from the toolbar and can then use it for databinding etc. Unfortunately when looking at the generated code for the declaration of the added component, i find the declaratio...more >>

Flexibility for the end user
Posted by Juan Dent at 6/9/2006 2:50:02 PM
Hi, Some time ago within the last 2 years or less, I read an article about how Windows Forms applications could be configured to be easily customized in appearance by end users. I have been looking for that article with 0 success. Does anyone remember about that or has anybody some info re...more >>

CollectionEditor - validation that only allows unique items in the collection
Posted by Sergiy at 6/8/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi all, I have a custom UI control with a collection property that I can edit with a CollectionEditor at design-time. To achieve this I've used the Editor attribute (from System.ComponentModel) on the collection property and created a class that derives from CollectionEditor and overrides ...more >>

Microsoft has let me down -- form breaks in designer
Posted by Daniel Manes at 6/1/2006 10:58:21 AM
Sorry for cross-posting this all over the place, but I've already lost two days to this problem, and I'm at my wits end. I've searched the usenet archives up and down and tried everything I can think of, but I just can't get the Visual Studio designer to stop breaking on me. My problem is that...more >>




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