How to avoid Designer.vb file ?
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Can we exclude designer.vb file in windows applications using Visual studio 2005?
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Can we exclude designer.vb file in windows applications using Visual studio 2005?
The designer files are just code to create the form and it's controls and lay them out on the form. Why would you want to execute just that file?? To answer you're question, no, you can't execute just the code in that file. All the files for the form are compiled into a single object that has no idea it was created from multiple files.
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Can we exclude designer.vb file in windows applications using Visual studio 2005?
Hi, 1. when you create another kind of project (say a Console app) you wouldn't get a designer file at all; you then can edit and add Windows.Forms code (or any other code) to the files you do get. That excludes designer support of course. Also, you can copy-paste the designer code from where it is to where you prefer it to be, then remove the designer file. The designer may or may not still work for you then (I do it sometimes in C#, I have no experience doing this in VB.NET). :)
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Hi, 1. when you create another kind of project (say a Console app) you wouldn't get a designer file at all; you then can edit and add Windows.Forms code (or any other code) to the files you do get. That excludes designer support of course. Also, you can copy-paste the designer code from where it is to where you prefer it to be, then remove the designer file. The designer may or may not still work for you then (I do it sometimes in C#, I have no experience doing this in VB.NET). :)
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Also, you can copy-paste the designer code from where it is to where you prefer it to be, then remove the designer file. The designer may or may not still work for you then (I do it sometimes in C#, I have no experience doing this in VB.NET).
The last time I tried this, it broke the designer. Though, I can't rememer if it was VS2003 or VS2005.
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Luc Pattyn wrote:
Also, you can copy-paste the designer code from where it is to where you prefer it to be, then remove the designer file. The designer may or may not still work for you then (I do it sometimes in C#, I have no experience doing this in VB.NET).
The last time I tried this, it broke the designer. Though, I can't rememer if it was VS2003 or VS2005.
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But no longer in 2009...Hi Dave, I just finished this[^] test app using VS C# 2008 Express; with the InitializeComponent() stuff inside the main file, all works well, the designer locates and keeps updating its code just like older VS versions used to do. :)
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Hi Dave, I just finished this[^] test app using VS C# 2008 Express; with the InitializeComponent() stuff inside the main file, all works well, the designer locates and keeps updating its code just like older VS versions used to do. :)
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Cool. I never tried in in 2008. I don't have it installed anywhere at work yet. :(
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Hi Dave, I just finished this[^] test app using VS C# 2008 Express; with the InitializeComponent() stuff inside the main file, all works well, the designer locates and keeps updating its code just like older VS versions used to do. :)
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Interesting! I spend a fair amount of time doing the opposite, converting .Net 1.0/1.1 code to have a designer.cs file, since I prefer that.
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Interesting! I spend a fair amount of time doing the opposite, converting .Net 1.0/1.1 code to have a designer.cs file, since I prefer that.
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So did I, when switching away from older .NET and VS versions. However for very small projects (less than 100 lines of code) I prefer having it all in 1 file. BTW: this may interest you, long ago, working in Fortran under RSX11D/RSX11M/old versions of VMS, I used to put build commands at the top of my FTN sources, starting with a 'C' of course; and I had a small utility to invoke compiler, linker, and then run the program. So the entire project was 1 file, which built and ran automatically. :)
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The designer files are just code to create the form and it's controls and lay them out on the form. Why would you want to execute just that file?? To answer you're question, no, you can't execute just the code in that file. All the files for the form are compiled into a single object that has no idea it was created from multiple files.
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But no longer in 2009...He said "exclude", not "execute". (Or maybe he edited the post.)