User control Name
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Hi I have a libary with some user controls which are used on different projects. What i want to do is when one of these controls are place on a form, you have to set the controls name before its added to the project. Is this possible at all. Thanks Chris
Chris
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Hi I have a libary with some user controls which are used on different projects. What i want to do is when one of these controls are place on a form, you have to set the controls name before its added to the project. Is this possible at all. Thanks Chris
Chris
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hiiiii, for me it sounds you developed your own Designer ?!?? in that case you need to implemented the INameCreationService. :)
hi No i havent developed my own designer. Just that i want to be promted to input the controls name
Chris
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Hi I have a libary with some user controls which are used on different projects. What i want to do is when one of these controls are place on a form, you have to set the controls name before its added to the project. Is this possible at all. Thanks Chris
Chris
If what you are asking is "When a designer drags my UserControl from the ToolBox to his form, he should be prompted to set the controls Name property - how do I do it?" Then AFAIK you can't. And you probably shouldn't if you can. If you did, it would make your control very different from the normal VS controls, and would probably really annoy some developers. Most of us do not use the default name fro most controls, preferring "tbPrintStatement" to "button52", but even I do not rename labels and so forth! If VS started insisting I did, I would be a bit pissed off. Generally, I place my controls as a bunch, then change the name and text at the same time.
Did you know: That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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If what you are asking is "When a designer drags my UserControl from the ToolBox to his form, he should be prompted to set the controls Name property - how do I do it?" Then AFAIK you can't. And you probably shouldn't if you can. If you did, it would make your control very different from the normal VS controls, and would probably really annoy some developers. Most of us do not use the default name fro most controls, preferring "tbPrintStatement" to "button52", but even I do not rename labels and so forth! If VS started insisting I did, I would be a bit pissed off. Generally, I place my controls as a bunch, then change the name and text at the same time.
Did you know: That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
Yes thats what i'm trying to do. I have wrote a set of controls for an HMI. the idea is to remove as much of the need for code as possibel so that some of my fellow engineers can do simple changes to the screens. It would be really anoying if all controls did this but we just want the ones we have designed.
Chris
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If what you are asking is "When a designer drags my UserControl from the ToolBox to his form, he should be prompted to set the controls Name property - how do I do it?" Then AFAIK you can't. And you probably shouldn't if you can. If you did, it would make your control very different from the normal VS controls, and would probably really annoy some developers. Most of us do not use the default name fro most controls, preferring "tbPrintStatement" to "button52", but even I do not rename labels and so forth! If VS started insisting I did, I would be a bit pissed off. Generally, I place my controls as a bunch, then change the name and text at the same time.
Did you know: That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
hmmm i have to agree with you every time a promting for the name would suck :) actually you need to write an addin for the IDE (VS oder #Develop). The addin should override the INameCreationService of the DesignerHost. then you can create a name the "normal" way or prompt for it :) sooo far ;)
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Yes thats what i'm trying to do. I have wrote a set of controls for an HMI. the idea is to remove as much of the need for code as possibel so that some of my fellow engineers can do simple changes to the screens. It would be really anoying if all controls did this but we just want the ones we have designed.
Chris
Nasty! If you are letting your engineers make "simple changes to the screens" you do realise they will need full VS to do it? Which means they could do anything to your screens. Including f@ck them up completely... If these guys are not bright enough to be trusted with default names and the ability to change them, then why are you going to trust them not to make a complete pigs-ear of the whole system?
Did you know: That by counting the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell how many other trees it has slept with.
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Hi I have a libary with some user controls which are used on different projects. What i want to do is when one of these controls are place on a form, you have to set the controls name before its added to the project. Is this possible at all. Thanks Chris
Chris
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alright i have the solution worked out!! :) but you need to wait till i am at home ;) i will write an article about your problem because this is very interesing stuff :) so please be patient.. greetz all over the world
ok Thanks in advance Chris
Chris
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ok Thanks in advance Chris
Chris
