I have created a new user control (ctlMyBox) with a bunch of labels, textboxes, and a picturebox. I learned how to add simple custom properties (strings, integers..etc) to it using the "Public Property..etc" method.
However, as an example, I also want to add a "Theme" property with only three options (Light, Dark, and Colorful). Depending on the theme chosen for the control, the colors of the different labels will change.My current (primitive) solution to this is making the Theme property as a String, like so:
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Private strTheme As String = "Colorful"
Public Property Theme() As String
Get
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This would require the user to know the exact names of the available themes. What I want is that when someone is coding to change the theme, a list of options would appear after writing ctlMyBox1.Theme = . The user would then select one of the three options, similar to when you select the checked state property of a checkbox for example. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this?
To avoid juggling with PHP for web apps and VB.Net for desktop aps, I'd like to investigate writing web apps in VB.Net.
What are my options? For instance, do I have to use Windows as the OS, .Net as the framework, and VS as the development tool, or is it OK to use Linux + Mono + some other IDE?
i have various options in my app, some complex some not, these 2 save on application exit and reload on application start themes, and layouts. There selected via a comobox each.So onto the question, how does everyone create options menus? With out using a menustrip/toolstrip?
The method i was using , was to have a picture box show a panel when it was clicked on, the panel had all the various options etc on it. This idea worked great, but meant working in design mode was a pain because the panel and everything on it had to be moved round to see the items under it on the form.
So today i decided to see what other ways i can implement a menu, and i changed it so the picturebox/button now opens a dialog, and all the options etc are on that dialog, this works great except options such as the combobox 1 and combobox2 last used setting (text data binding) doesn't load when the application is started, they only load when you go into the options. Which defeats the point, if a users going into the options just to load the settings its useless them been saved.
The time to initialize the dialog (for it to appear and be click able) is 5 - 15 seconds, not alot i know but the 1st method of using a panel it initializes instantly, but then its never really closed just made hidden, so i uses more system resources.So how does every one else implement there options menu?
I want to create my own custom MessageBox. The default message box from VB contains a few options (as a parameter) like: MessageBoxButtons.OK MessageBoxButtons.RetryCancel MessageBoxButtons.YesNo MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel etc... How can I create a sub that also has a list of options the user can choose from??
I am in need of a form that shows various options, exactly like the Options in Visual Studio. Since there are so many options I too want them categorized, with a TreeView to the left taking care of showing the right category.The usual 'easy' approach here would be to just place a TreeView control on the form, add some nodes, and give those nodes a tag or key that corresponds to a panel or UserControl with the options for that category.Since there will be a lot of options however, this is not really feasible design-wise; the form would be cluttered with possibly 50 panels, all of which I would need to select and bring to front from time to time to add controls to them that represent the options.
So I decided to create a custom control that does exactly that. The control is very similar to my Wizard usercontrol, users can add OptionsPanels at design time, which inherit Panel and simply represent one panel of options. When they do, the panel is added to a container panel, and at the same time a TreeNode is added to a TreeView. The control uses a custom ControlDesigner to handle design-time clicks in the Treeview, selecting a different node would select and bring to front the corresponding panel, allowing the user to add the controls he wants.
Due to the design time support the problem of having 50 panels is no longer present, only one panel will be visible at a time and selecting the right panel is as simple as selecting the corresponding TreeNode, just as during run-time. Anyway, I got all this working, but only for a single 'level' of categories. As you can see in the Visual Studio options, there can be multiple levels of categories. For example, the Environment node has a bunch of children, where each child represents one 'options panel'. There can even be deeper nesting, see the Text Editor node for example.Let me begin by drawing out the basics of how my control works so far.
The main control is an OptionsView control, which contains a SplitContainer with a TreeView to the left and a OptionsPanelContainer to the right. The OptionsPanelContainer is merely a Panel to which only OptionsPanel controls can be added, and which raises events when this happens, as well as when OptionsPanels are removed from it. An OptionsPanel also inherits Panel, and these are the actual panels the users will see in the control, one for each option category.For now, each OptionsPanel has exactly one corresponding TreeNode (and vice versa). In the Visual Studio options, each 'parent' category usually has a 'General' node as the first child, and the parent and this General node show the same option panel, but I am ignoring that for the moment.
The OptionsView control has a property Panels that returns the ControlCollection (Controls property) of the OptionsPanelContainer (in other words: it returns a collection of OptionsPanels that are in this container panel).
vb.net <Editor(GetType(Designers.OptionsPanelCollectionEditor), GetType(UITypeEditor))> _ <DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)> _ Public ReadOnly Property Panels As Control.ControlCollection Get Return Me.PanelContainer.Controls End Get End Property
A custom CollectionEditor for this property takes care of the designer: even though the property type is ControlCollection, the CollectionEditor knows it should create instances of the OptionsPanel control instead of just Controls.When it does this, a corresponding TreeNode is also created and its Tag property is set to the OptionsPanel. Vice versa, the Node property of the OptionsPanel is set to the node. Hence the node and panel both know their corresponding object.
vb.net Public Class OptionsPanelCollectionEditor Inherits System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor Public Sub New(type As Type) MyBase.New(type) End Sub Protected Overrides Function CreateCollectionItemType() As System.Type
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So far so good, this all works fine. I can add Panels via the designer and when I do a new TreeNode appears in the TreeView. I can select this node and the panel becomes visible (comes to the front).Now, I am a little stuck. How do I implement child option panels? And more importantly: how do I let the user add child panels?The most logical choice I think is to let each OptionsPanel have a property (ChildPanels or something) that returns the child OptionsPanels for that panel. Once the user selects an OptionsPanel then, he can look in the property grid to find its ChildPanels property and add child panels to that.
There is a problem though: what would this property return? It must return a ControlCollection of some container (this is, I think, a requirement for the designer features to work, otherwise panels are not added to the Form.Designer.vb file). But there is no container. I cannot add them to the OptionsPanel itself, that would make no sense because the parent OptionsPanel has its own set of controls (the options itself...), there cannot be another (fully docked) Panel on top of those obviously.The container of the main OptionsView then? That is not an option either, its Controls collection holds ALL OptionsPanels, not just the children of the selected panel. I cannot 'select' only the right panels either, that would require me to return a new instance of ControlCollection, it would be impossible to return the actual ControlsCollection that holds merely a small selection of its controls.
I am currently in the process of improving my options dialog for a winforms application. At the moment I am using a tab control. I would like to create a form/dialog for settings that is similar to Visual Studio's. How is this done? I can see a treeview like control on the left hand side but what control are they using to display each of the options pages, it doesn't appear to be a tab control. I would like to be able to build the controls for each of the settings at design time.
Problem: Your task is to take input from the user in string and give the following options to the user in a menu.
1- Find a String 2- Create sub-string 3- Erase a portion of a sting 4- Replace a word in the string 5- Count number of words and characters in the string without spaces. 6- Capitalize first character of each new sentence and convert the rest of the characters to lower case. 7- Sort all the words in alphabetical order. (Use Bubble sort algorithm to perform sorting).
To perform all the above mentioned tasks you can only use pointers. Create a function to perform every task.
As i'm learning more and more about developing ive just got my head around creating classes and modules, i started wondering about something to do with configuration of applications where deployment is in a more diverse environment say in a company where different branches dont need access to all parts of a program, so i thought id throw the question out there in a basic sense and get some feedback. so i can go off and do some more reading and learning.
So the scenario in my head is like this.
So we have for arguments sake FrmConfig which is the master configuration form, then we have FrmMain which is the root menu our application general user interfaces with. So here based on what options are checked as enabled in FrmConfig effects what controls (like buttons/menu options) are enabled in FrmMain.
I am trying to create a delegate(as a test) for: Public Overridable ReadOnly Property PropertyName()As String My intuitive attempt was declaring the delegate like this:
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So the question is, how do I make a delegate for a property?
Private _myCollection As IList(Of T) Public Property MyProperty(Of T)() as IList(Of T) Get
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Basically, I want to have a collection of items that may be of any type. Then, I'll be able to do something like this:
Dim myPropertyValue as <the type of some value> if (MyProperty.Contains(<some value>)) myPropertyValue = CType(MyProperty(<some value>), <the type of some value>)
How can I do this? Or is there a better way than using a generic type?
I am trying to create a property for objects, though I am not sure if that is what it is called. For example, PictureBox.Image instead of Image I want to use my own property.
I want to create a property handler in .NET. I have already implemented the IInitializeWithFile, IPropertyStore and IPropertyStoreCapabilities classes but I don't know how to implement their functions to create custom properties and display data.[url]...
I have class called "Employee" and I have a class called Department. They have an association. I need to create a colleciton of employees with the creation of a Departmant. I know how to do with using "private" member _AllMyEmployees. But I need to expose this private member using properties. therefore how do i covert thsi private member to a property? [code]
I have created a little demo application which is able to create a meeting request by using the Exchange WebService (EWS). I would also like to add some custom properties to this item but up to now I have only found examples which use the Exchange Managed API, which I won't use. There must be a way to create these properties by only using EWS... Does anybody know how and can provide a little code example?
I was wondering how I could create a property for DataGridView Items. I'd like each one to have a property called "Flooded" for this game I'm making (I thought it would be funny to make a game outside of an actual game engine). Can I declare a property or anything?
I've recently taken over a MVVM project started by someone who's now left the company; It's my first time using WPF, but by the looks of it, it was his first time using both WPF and OOP...Anyway, I've got a ListView in the XAML, and I've got a collection class which doesn't currently contain a "SelectedItem" property.what code I need to put in to link the SelectedItem of the ListView to the as-yet-unwritten SelectedItem property of my collection, and then what code I need to put in so that the SelectedItem of the collection links back to the ListView?
I am currently learning VB.net but for a project I need to create and array and pass it using a property. The data to be passed will be a train's destination, the time its due and the expected time of the train. I was wondering if someone could simplly explain how to first produce an array and then show how to pass it to a custom control
I'm having some trouble with a class that uses the ToolStripControlHost, I have to create a label and a label beside the textbox, this works, the problem now and I can not access the property. Text of textbox (txt). the class to this:
Public Class ToolStripTextBoxWithLabel Inherits ToolStripControlHost Public Event TextoAlterado(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)[code]......
I'm building an abstract class that handles some common operations for all of my data access objects. The class will utilize generics, so I can't make direct calls to constructors, business object properties, etc. Reflection is way too slow for what I want to accomplish, so I am using a DynamicMethod, ILGenerator, and Delegate caching instead (sample will follow).
The method I'm currently working on is a Private Shared method that populates a list of business objects using records from a data table. I'm having a problem building the property setter via IL. I'm getting an object reference error, but I'm not sure how to fix it. I believe the error comes from the "target" being Nothing, but the parameter I'm passing as the target is not Nothing at the time of invocation. Here are some snippets of what I've got so far:
'class declaration -- TList is strongly-typed list of T Public MustInherit Class DataAccessBase(Of T, TList) ... 'delegate declaration
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I'm assuming the obj is not being passed correctly as the target, thus causing the target to be Nothing.
defauld the usercontrol create(when is used) the backgroundimage property, but these property can be blocked? i'm asking these, because i need the entire control in that property
Is there a (simple) way to connect a textbox, label etc. to a property in a class?I have a project with a complex series of dialogs to enter data into a list of a costum class describing an experiment with many parameters that are stored as properties (both simple variables such as strings and integers, but also more complex ones).I need both to be able to update the list of my experiment class, but also to go the other way to populate the dialogs from the class.It can of course be done outside the class and the dialogs in separate subroutines. This however, quicly becomes unmanagable and hard to maintain as the dialogs and experiment class is expanded with new elements.If there was a simple way to connect say a textbox or label in a dialog with the appropriate property holding the information it would make it much easier.
I`m looking for a way to parse a parameter name like linq does.I want to filter before i download the date from the database.With LINQ the data is already red into a dataset. I only want to select data from the database witch i need. how i can send a property name to a function without using the property name as string and without to use to mutch code inside the function and without creating an instance of the object, etc.
how to create my own custom property that is an object but that allows a string to be passed in to the property grid to configure it.For example, with a font type property you can type "Microsoft Sans Serif, 18pt" into the property grid and it will create the appropriate font structure and fill it.
I want to use SetPropertyItem to add a new property to an image ...
how can i create a new System.Drawing.Imaging.PropertyItem without first reading a property from an image and changing its values? as this seems somewhat counter-productive
