IDE :: InitializeComponent Generated By Designer Puts Controls In The Wrong Order
Aug 20, 2009
The code generator creates code with references to a component I am using, before it's dependent components (datasets) are initalized. Although I can correct this by editing the form.designer.vb file, everytime I make a change on the form the code is re-generated in the wrong order. Where does VS2008 store information about the order of the components for code generation.
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Me.AppointmentBindingSource.DataMember = "appointment"
I have made changes to the windows form name from "form1" to "applicant_name" after that it shows this error The designer cannot process the code at line 249: Me.name = "applicant_name" The code within the method 'InitializeComponent' is generated by the designer and should not be manually modified. Please remove any changes and try opening the designer again.when i comment it its started working fine can any one suggest me wat to do and why it is comming
Alright so i have a form with alot (ALOT) of controls...many tabs, many listviews, many comboboxes and textboxes, all of which have values which i saveload using a class i made for saving and loading these values from a file.
Loading these values is pretty slow after the form loads. Takes around 3 seconds (i had to create a splashscreen and made it look decent, but it's still not a nice thing to have)
Then today i decided to try something. I opened the designer to initialize component, and i called the LoaderSub (that loads the values for the controls from a file) within initialize component, in a location after all the properties are set but before all the .resumelayout and .performlayout are called. Lo' and behold the form loaded in less than half a second, with the values and all.
However, now everytime i make a change to the form in design view, or even add a handler to some control in code view, the designer redraws and the auto generated code takes out my code from initializecomponent.
I did the googling, and all the results i found for similar cases issues were cases where the person asking the question im going to ask, the answer is "Didn't you read the part that says DO NOT MODIFY?"
Still, as a last attempt, I ask here: is there any way to modify initializecomponent without losing my changes? I just need to call LoaderSub before the layout resumes...if i call it before initialize component, i get null reference exceptions. And if i call it right after initialize component, loading is very slow.
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I've created applications similar to this in VS2008 without any issues.
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Dim CF As CashFlowControl
CF = New CashFlowControl
CF.Cashflow = Form1.Controls.Add("Forms.Textbox.1", "Cashflow" & Cashflows.Count + 1, True) With CF.Cashflow .Left = Form1.Label2.Left .Width = Form1.Label2.Width .Top = Form1.Label2.Top + Form1.Label2.Height + (Form1.Label2.Height * Cashflows.Count) + 5 .Visible = True .Text = 0 .Text = Format(CF.Cashflow.Text, "$#,##0.00") End With I have tried:
Dim txtbox As New TextBox
CF.CashFlow = Form1.Controls.Add(txtbox) With CF.CashFlow .Name = "CashFlow" & Cashflows.Count + 1 .Left = Form1.Label2.Left .Width = Form1.Label2.Width .Top = Form1.Label2.Top + Form1.Label2.Height + (Form1.Label2.Height * Cashflows.Count) + 5 .Height = Form1.Label2.Height .Visible = True End With I've also tried:
CF.CashFlow = Form1.Controls.Add("vbtextbox","Cashflow" & Cashflows.count + 1) With CF.CashFlow .Left = Form1.Label2.Left .Width = Form1.Label2.Width .Top = Form1.Label2.Top + Form1.Label2.Height + (Form1.Label2.Height * Cashflows.Count) + 5 .Height = Form1.Label2.Height .Visible = True End With I still get the little wavy underline under the text after the "Form1.Controls.Add" statement and the error says "Value of Type 'string' cannot be converted to 'system.windows.forms.control." I also get the error "Too many arguments to 'Public Overridable Sub Add(value as systems.windows.forms.control)"
What am I missing here? This seems to be the way it is done in all of the examples that I have found on this site.
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<Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DesignerGenerated()> _ Partial Class frmFullMarketView Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
[Code]....
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