I have a custom user control with a textbox on it and I'd like to expose the baseline (of the text in the textbox) snapline outside of the custom control. I know that you create a designer (inherited from ControlDesigner) and override SnapLines to get access to the snaplines, but I'm wondering how to get the text baseline of a control t...
My team developed a GUI application on Visual Studio 2005, managed C++. Since some deliveries it is not possible to open the form in the designer, even if the source code and the project settings have not been changed. The designer reports this error: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. *at Microsoft.VisualStu...
Hi all, Has anyone ever had the issue where trying to "View Designer" on a windows form in Visual Studio .NET causes the error: "Could not load file or assembly…" ? In this case, the assembly in question was XYZ.dll. I managed to fix this by adding XYZ.dll and all its references to my project's references (even though my project doesn'...
I have a control that is created like so: public partial class MYControl : MyControlBase { public string InnerText { get { return textBox1.Text; } set { textBox1.Text = value; } } public MYControl() { InitializeComponent(); } } partial class MYControl { /// <summary> /// Required de...
I decided to change a utility I'm working on to use a tabpage. When I tried to drag various controls from the form to a tab page on top of the form, it made copies of the control, giving it a different name. It's easy enough to just remake the form on top of the tab or just edit the source code in the designer to have everything be add...
How can I get my control members to show their events on the Visual Studio event grid? Visual Studio does this for certain things like the "(DataBindings)" member by putting them in a collapsible section, like so: I'd like to do this for some of my own components, since their events are usually handled on the form, and having to creat...
Hi, I just tested which type of code is executed by the WinForms Designer in VS 2008. It seems that the designer is not executing the default constructor anymore. I added a simple thing like this.Text = "foo"; nothing is changed in the designer. Did I miss a change between VS 2005/2008? (or SP1) tia ...
When you load an UserControl in the WinForm designer, VisualStudio executes the InitializeComponent() method of the control, but not its constructor. This really makes a difference because it's quite common to have some code in the constructor which cannot run at design time. Unfortunately, when you add an UserControl to another control...
My workshop has recently switched to Subversion from SourceSafe, freeing us from automatic locks. This led to concurrent editing of the Forms, which is wonderful. But when multiple developers commit their changes, the code files created by the designer (all the files named TheFormName.designer.cs) cause conflicts which are very difficult...
Overview In another question, I asked about deploying localizations for some runtime compiled UserControl's. However, before I can get to deploying the localizations, I need a way of localizing the controls. Background The controls are created by our own WinForms-style designer (using .NET's support for design surfaces, etc.) and save...
Some of my forms show errors when i load them in the designer. This is because in their constructors they use system settings loaded from a configuration file. When the form is loaded in the designer it uses some random path and unsurprisingly the config file isn't there. eg. The configuration file C:\Documents and Settings\Rory\Local...
I have a user control with the following code in it. [System.ComponentModel.Category("Appearance")] public override string Text { ... } private int myVar; [System.ComponentModel.Category("Appearance")] public int MyProperty { ... } MyProperty shows up in the property grid when the control is inserted in a form, but Text does not. Ho...
I'm using Visual C# Express to write Windows Form applications, and call me old school, but I don't like the designer. It is a nuisance and pollutes my project with lots of unwanted files, as well as unwanted monkey-generated source code. Please please please tell me there's a way to turn it off completely. ...
I have read a bit about Design-Time Attributes for Components. There I found an attribute called CategoryAttribute. On that page it says that The CategoryAttribute class defines the following common categories: And then lists up a number of common categories. One of them are for example Appearance. I thought, brilliant! Then I can...
Hi I cannot view DataSet file in designer mode in VS 2005. When I try to it another solution it is ok but in one of my project solution I cant. The projects are c# class library projects in a solution file. Is there any suggestion? Thanks for your help. ...
I would like to hear some opinions on hand coding your GUIs as one typically do when using Java or Qt with C++, vs using a gui-designer tool? Examples of GUI designer tools would be MFC GUI-designer, Qt designer, Interface Builder (Apple). I used to be a fan of hand coding but from recent experience I have switched. The problem I have s...
If I have a form that is localized and has User Controls that are localized, how I can I view the form and the controls in the language specified in the VS Properties? Right now when I change the language, all my controls that are not part a user control adjust appropriately, but my user controls do not. ...
The Windows Forms Designer in C++/CLI projects generates both the declarations and definitions of all event handlers in the header file itself. The .cpp it generates is a mere stub which simply includes the generated header and stdafx.h. I feel that I could reduce compile times if I moved the implementation (i.e. definition) of all class...
Is it possible to give individual cells in a data grid view row different styles such as backcolor, fontcolor etc? I do not mean giving the whole row a new style, only a specific cell. ...
I have a custom WinForms designer, and I've just added functionality to create duplicate components using drag & drop (with the ctrl key held down) by inheriting from CodeDomDesignerLoader. Unfortunately, this works a little too well: the new components get all of the same property values as their originals, and I need some of those to b...