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User Controls and the Designer (VS.NET 2005)

JawzX01
7/25/2006 1:53:49 PM

dotnet windows forms designtime:

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 has to do with developing user controls and their
interaction with the VS.NET (05). Currently, as I test my control it
runs as a run-time control perfectly (except for a few minor known
issues). However, it causes VS.NET 05 to crash - hard - in the
design mode. It locks up the environment.

Specifically, it does this when I open the Items Collection editor
(to add items to the ToolStrip.) Any thought or suggestions? All would
be appricated. If more details are needed, please ask, I will answer
your questions to get my question answered.

Second, are there any good resources on the internet in regards to
developing a Windows Forms User Control with complete designer support?

Thanks All,
Frank V.
jawzx01@gmail.com
http://www.TheOpenSourceU.com

Re: User Controls and the Designer (VS.NET 2005)

Frank V
7/25/2006 2:23:05 PM

Also, are there any tools useful for debugging user controls under
development.

For example the ability to step the code while "designing" the control.

Thanks Again,
Frank
jawzx01@gmail.com
http://www.TheOpenSourceU.com

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Re: User Controls and the Designer (VS.NET 2005)

Frank Hileman
7/27/2006 7:04:37 AM

Hi Frank,

You have two choices:

- before triggering the problem behavior, open another instance of VS 2005,
and attach the debugger to the previous devenv.exe process (Debug/Processes)
or

- Create a test project to test design-time behavior. In the debug options
for your library project, specify the application to launch as devenv.exe
(browse to the VS folders). For the command line argument, pass in the path
and name of the test project. When you launch the debugger it will bring up
another instance of devenv.exe with the debugger already attached to the
project.

Regards,
Frank Hileman

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