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all groups > dotnet windows forms designtime > july 2006

User Controls and the Designer (VS.NET 2005)
Posted by JawzX01 at 7/25/2006 1:53:49 PM
Hello All, I have two questions. I'm developing a user control which turn out to be custom controls derived from the ToolStrip class/control and the ToolStrip Button class/Control. There is both a Custom ToolStrip and ToolStripItem (a different type of button). My first question h...more >>

Force component location winthin a form
Posted by A.User at 7/24/2006 6:27:23 PM
I have a simple panel custom user contol that I want to force to a certin location (not 0,0) when added to a form. Is there a way to do this so it shows up correctly in the designer? ...more >>

Generic controls
Posted by GROM at 7/20/2006 10:50:12 AM
Hi group I have created a generic control such as this one : public class SuperControl<E> : Control{} It work very fine, but i can't have it in design time. I saw on this group that it is a known problem, and that the designer don't know how to work with generics. My first question is Hav...more >>

Setting GenerateMember property from ControlDesigner derived class
Posted by vladimir.khvostov NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 7/17/2006 5:07:04 PM
Hi, I implemented a simple control - HorizontalBevel that can be used to render horizontal lines on a form (2 pixel in Height). I wanted to display only what make sense for this control in properties window, so I wrote a HorizontalBevelDesigner class, which removes most properties by overriding...more >>

Cannot open a form in the IDE of VS2005
Posted by Juan Dent at 7/17/2006 4:10:02 PM
Hi, I have a Windows forms app with some user defined visual components in it and for some reason I cannot open it in VS2005 IDE. If I build it, it will run okay. What could be going on and how can I go about debugging the problem? The biggest problem is that VS2005 will hang every time I...more >>

designers typeof(IRootDesigner)
Posted by Krzysztof Gorniak at 7/13/2006 11:35:58 PM
hi there, I'm looking for good tutorial on making iroot designer. I need a custom designer just like this one http://windowsforms.net/articles/shapedesigner.aspxbut i want the shape to be a containerfor onthers windows forms controls. Is it possible ?Are there any good books or other know...more >>

Sub Componets as Properties in other Controls
Posted by Christian.Wall NO[at]SPAM gmx-topmail.de at 7/12/2006 4:17:30 AM
Hello, I've got the following situation: I want to create a component, which has one public property. This property is an ImageList. Now I want to drop this new compnonent on my form. On this form i also have a TreeView which have a property "ImageList". And now my question is: How can I s...more >>

vs2005 DT Perfomance problem
Posted by Roman at 7/12/2006 12:00:00 AM
Vs2005 becomes definitely unworkable if the number of components on the form is greater then 100. I wonder if Microsoft published this limitation. Below is a simple class, which illustrates my words. Just add it to any winforms app, drag drop vs2005worker from the Toolbox and Resize. You w...more >>



Changing the Toolbox display name of a custom control
Posted by k.saunders NO[at]SPAM comcast.net at 7/8/2006 11:01:16 AM
I have created a custom control and I would like it to display in the Toolbox with a non-default name and bitmap. I have a custom bitmap displaying, but I can't figure out how to change the display name. My first thought was to extend ToolBoxItem and override the DisplayName property -- yet t...more >>

Can't Create New Data Connection
Posted by JamesJ at 7/8/2006 7:49:40 AM
Just installed Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. When attempting to link to a data source which is a ms access database I get the following error (if I wrote it down properly). Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at 0. I thought it would be a bit e...more >>

Dock and TopLevel properties not appearing in the designer.
Posted by Kaine at 7/7/2006 4:31:01 AM
We have found that the Dock and TopLevel properties do not appear in the .NET 2005 C# forms designer so we added the code below to our base forms, but still the properties would not appear for our derived forms. Once we changed the names of the properties and removed the override keywords the...more >>


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