How to make Serial Port static from the designer?

[yehiga1467]

Hello all, my code requires the Serial Port to be static. Each time I make changes to the UI, I have to manually set the Serial Port to static. like this

private: System::IO::Ports::SerialPort^ mySerialPort;

to this

private: static System::IO::Ports::SerialPort^ mySerialPort;

Is there a way to automatically be static?

[Lost User]

Add it to your class manually rather than in the designer.

[yehiga1467]

Thanks I have been adding the static keyword manually. But do you know if there is a way to automatically do this?

[Lost User]

I have never tried, but I would not expect so. If you drag a control onto a form in the designer then the designer adds it to the Form's properties. But there is nothing (at least in C# Forms) that I can see that allows you to modify it to be static.