Designer calls to class constructor several times!

[Lexa1983]

I have a control inherited from ComboBox. In constructor I add some items. Now, when my control is have been putted onto form designed calls to constructor and item collection is automatically updates. How can I prevent this action, some directive or attribute that tells to designer not to call to constructor during the design time?

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

Please see this page[^] for information about how to write design-time aware code. Also, the designer will always call the default constructor (i.e. the constructor that takes zero parameters). If you want to create a constructor that gets called only by your code, create a second constructor that takes a parameter.

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-- modified at 13:30 Thursday 15th September, 2005

[Lexa1983]

There is a lot of information there... unfortunately I have not found what I need, but thanks. Declare additional constructor with different from void parameters will be not so "right" way. It must be something that resolves this problem...

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

If your control inherits from System.ComponentModel.Component (or System.Control, which inherits from System.ComponentModel.Component), then you can get the value from the protected DesignMode property to indicate whether you're in design mode.

public class MyControl : Control
{
public MyControl()
{
// in design mode?
bool designMode = this.DesignMode;
}
}

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[Lexa1983]

thanks :) that is exactly what I need