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GridView: Control Designer

Hi, I have a question regarding the GridView and the Control Designer of it. I've made a composite control inherited of the GridView. I would like to make some new created BoundField controls available in the designer of the GridView control? So that I can select the custom BoundField control from the Available fields list. Anyone got ...

Problem using a costum server control in a aspx

Hi guys, i am having a issue. I already developed one class (my custom gridview) and i want use it on a .aspx That class is defined in app_code and compiled to the dll of the project. namespace MyCostumControls{  public class DropDownPagingGridView : GridView{ ... I already registered the control on the aspx page using <%@ Regist...

ASP.NET auto-generate aspx.designer.cs turn off?

Hey all, As I'm working on a asp.net/c# project, I'm confronted with the foobar.aspx.designer.cs that auto generates it's content. eg, when I'm changing the code/designer, the designer.cs automatically updates it's content. As I'm bit of a control-dude, I'd like to maintain the code myself. I'm not happy with the overkill of comments I...

Visual Studio 2008 Workflow designer bug for referenced assemblies with same prefix namespace - any fixes?

In visual studio 2008 (SP1 applied) there appears to be a bug in the state workflow designer tool. On adding a HandleExternalEvent activity and setting the Interface type to that of an interface in a reference assembly with the same prefixed namespace (eg XX.Core.Contracts as the namespace of the interface containing assembly and XX.St...

WinForms designer

I have a large number of forms with a lot of controls on them and i need to do specific actions with certain groups of controls. Is it possible to select all elements with the same type using vs winforms designer? or using other instruments? It's not a problem when i'm using custom controls where i can implement my own controlDesigner an...

VS2010: "Select Resource" dialog & resx location

Got two issues with the VS2010 / VS2008 select resource dialog - the one that appears when you want to add an image to a button in a WinForms app for example. Give me my files back! It only seems to see the default project resources file (Properties\Resources.resx), and resx files in project root (say MyProject\famfamfam.resx). We ha...

Android Designer like "Interface Builder"?

We are beginning to learn Android, converting our iPhone apps over. There is a rudimentary editor for layouts in Eclipse, but it's not very good. Is there a visual designer that would be on par with the iPhone "Interface Builder" ? ...

xaml nested class path designer issue

Hi, I have nested class public class Enums { public enum WindowModeEnum { Edit, New } } In my xaml I reference code: <Style.Triggers> <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding WindowMode}" Value="{x:Static Types1:Enums+WindowModeEnum.Edit}"> <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Collapsed" /> ...

Create designer.cs file programmatically

Hi All, Can somebody tell me how to create designer.cs file by using .net code. Basically what i want to do here is that i have a bunch of aspx and ascx files created by previous versions of vs.net that lacks designer files and now i want to create designer files for those. I can generate empty designer files but what i want is that my c...

Java errors on Lotus Domino Designer Client 8.5.1

I have a clean install of Lotus Notes 8.5.1 (now with FP3) and I'm getting the following errors in Designer. This is with a new database with a couple of forms and views. I'm finding this is typical across all databases. Is there something I need to install/configure etc.? I'm not new to Notes, but I'm new to 8.5 Thanks Aidan De...

VS2010 "An item with the same key has already been added"

I recently installed Visual Studio 2010 and copied and converted an old VS2005 solution to VS2010 When I edit this solution, if I try to change a control's .image property, VS2010 creates a message box telling me that "An item with the same key has already been added" (screenshot below), and won't let me browse for an image. I can add ...

How to show controls hierarchy in Winform designer

Hi, One of our client has an old winform application that contains forms with a lot of controls on them. Some of those controls have a deep hierarchy and that make it to hard to select them in the designer. I would need to understand this hierarchy to make modification and correct some bugs, is there a tools, plugin or something to be ...

Visual Studio Designer looses / ignores data

I'm writing my own control - a datagridviewcolumn that displays integer values as texts like the comboboxcolumn can but without showing the combobox unless the cell is edited. I'm mostly there but I have problems with the databinding. I managed to get the necessary properties to appear in the designer but every time I set the datasource...

SharePoint Designer 2007 - Send Email: The whitespace inside a hyperlink tag changes to plus (+)

I am using SharePoint Designer 2007 to send custom task notification. The lookup values retail their whitespaces if they are not part of the quotations in the html hyperlink tag. However, if a lookup value is part of the tag (example link), the whitespaces inside the quotations are changed into plus (+) sign. Any ideas on this? Thanks...

Extending Visual Studio with a Custom Designer

How do I create a custom Visual Studio 2008 UI designer for a C# file? For example, when you double click on a DataSet in the Solution Explorer, a UI screen appears that allows you to edit the DataSet, even though it is defined in XML/code (which you can right click and "View Code"). Usually this code is separated from user code in som...

hierarchical statecharts designer with code generation

What is the best free and the best commercial tool that lets me draw uml hierarchical statechats like in the picture below. It would also be cool if it could generate the c# source code stubs. ...

Windows Forms Designer Float overflow

I'm not sure what's changed, but for some reason I'm getting a problem with Visual Studio 2008 Windows Forms Designer: C++ CodeDOM parser error: Line: 1978, Column: 80 --- Float overflow The call stack doesn't seem to point to any of my code either: at Microsoft.VisualC.CppCodeParser.OnMethodPopulateStatements(Object sender, Even...

Pros and cons of editing sharepoint master page in sharepoint designer or visual studio?

Pros and cons of editing sharepoint master page in sharepoint designer or visual studio? Which one do you prefer ...

C++ .net "Unable to load assembly XX.XX"

I'm developing C++.net 2.0 under Win7 with VS2008. I am working with several layers of UserControls. I have a DLL Names "MyControls.dll" that contains a control, derived from a control in "BaseControls.dll". Every time I attempt to load any controls in MyControls that derive from BaseControls, the designer breaks with the error: Cou...

Properties won't get serialized into the .designer.cs file

In VS2010, control properties won't get serialized despite the ShouldSerializeFoo method, with the DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible/Content as well. Here's the code: class Class1 : UserControl { [Browsable(true)] [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)] public string Foo { ge...