mike montagne wrote: I'm going to have to look around to see what method to use to retrieve my managed resources In fact it's rather easy. Just use the Windows Forms designer and assign an image (e.g. to a PictureBox). Then take a look at the MyForm.Designer.cs file and see the designer-generated code that loads from the resource. Adapt it and do it in a similar way. -- • Zeta Producer Desktop CMS Intuitive, completely easy-to-use CMS for Windows. • Zeta Helpdesk Open Source ticket software for Windows and web. • Zeta Uploader Easily send large files by e-mail. Windows and web client. • Desargues Innovative, lean and neat calculator for Windows.

This approach appears [?] to get a legitimate handle. The value is usually just over 1,000 -- 1,008, 1,032, etc. I've checked MyResourceName over and over again for case. I've tried all uppercase (which doesn't match the resource name), and I've tried odd syntax that I've seen in other examples (which resort to native C++ to get a handle) such as prefixing MyResourceName with "#" or including the file extension (which in my experience with resource files should be an error)... but still, all I get is a "Parameter is not valid" error: IntPtr hInstance = Process.GetCurrentProcess().Handle; if ( (IntPtr)0 != hInstance ) myBitmap = Bitmap.FromResource( hInstance, "MyResourceName" ); Process.GetCurrentProcess().Handle is as close as I've come to succeding, in that the value is possibly a legitimate handle/IntPtr value. Does anybody know how to do this?

No problem. I'm glad to help. Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

Actually, I'd be tempted to write a type converter and maybe a UITypeEditor implementation that shows possible types to choose from. Try code model generation tools at BoneSoft.com.

Wow, thanks! Funny, you have to comma delimit the new constraint after another constraint... public class MyCollection<T1, T2> : Component where T1: MyClass1, new() where T2 : MyClass2 ...but not the where of the subsequent constraint? :-) Sure does work. I appreciate the tip. m

Denis and I are hashing out some ideas about licensing. Hopefully we will come up with a boilerplate which will solve issues right out of the box.

If anyone is interested (I assume many of us have to deal with this issue), I have discovered that implementing TypeConverter is very sensitive to DefaultAttribute declarations. I'm getting nested nodes without default attributes, but they are dysfunctional. I discovered this in design-time testing, wanting to eliminate the possibility of invoking Reset on the composite property, because the IDE would raise errors whenever we did this. I next thought that since I had declared default attributes on the underlying property classes, that I may as well not declare default attributes on properties of these types... but no... the TypeConverter implementation falls apart then.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I encounter so many dysfunctionalities in visiting Microsoft sites that there hardly seems any point in trying. I have to log in to post (but I already logged in). I try to log in again, I'm told I have to enable cookies (but cookies are enabled). I try to post or send feedback, and I'm told I need to log in. I try to log in, but I'm told I'm already logged in. This stuff is absolutely ridiculous. In any case, I called and got a special link that was supposed to allow me to post a report without logging in... but it required me to log in as well, and we went around in circles for naught again... BUT... Though all previous searches turned up nothing, I tried my OnSystemColorsChanged search from that page... and I turn up an issue: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=95463 So, although this is not the whole issue, it reports that at one time, though system colors may be reconfigured, the new colors were not assigned to the values representing system colors. MS claims to have been able to reproduce the problem, and to have fixed it. I believe their test situation was not broad enough to verify *also* that OnSystemColorsChanged is entered, because my testing shows no entry into this event handler whatsoever. Same problem with OnEnabledChanged, which I was able to work around by writing a new Enabled property. OnSystemColorsChanged however provides no such opportunity, because of course we are not assigning to a property to fire the event -- it is a system event, the whole responsibility for which is Microsoft's. Unless I misunderstand that my testing (manually resetting system colors) is somehow (?) insufficient to fire the event (it changes system colors in many other applications), I believe this establishes a compiler issue/bug. If anyone knows any better, I surely would like to hear about it, because this is a very costly issue for us. TIA, m

Christian, If you don't mind, I'm trying still to decipher your post. First you say, "That doesn't happen here." But you add, "You can use attributes to make a property appear in the designer, and if it's a struct..." I believe by the latter you may mean, "That doesn't happen here, unless you use the attributes, XAttribute, YAttribute, etc. (or something to that effect)." Your next question appears to reinforce the idea I don't need a designer. Anyway, I'm sorry to ask this again, but I need to be clear on this. Is your thinking that I should not have to write a designer -- that [Browsable] and [Serializable] should do the trick without a designer? I'm not getting either to work. TIA, m

PS. All this (except how to store or manage class identifier *properties*) may be moot however, if the Activator class provides the needed services.