How can I read the properties for a given contol type at runtime without having the masive overhead of specifing the each property for each type of control in code.
For example supose you are building an application where the end-user selects a contol type form a drop-down list in a combobox then the properties (Read, Write, Runtime, Designtime) for that control are displayed in a listbox.
How can I read the properties for a given contol type at runtime without having the masive overhead of specifing the each property for each type of control in code.
For example supose you are building an application where the end-user selects a contol type form a drop-down list in a combobox then the properties (Read, Write, Runtime, Designtime) for that control are displayed in a listbox.
I have my own class of graphic objects, and now I'd like to allow a user to right-click on one of those within the application and see a properties window. Is there a pre-built dialog or control for displaying properties at runtime? I'd like to have something just like the IDE properties window button for my application.
View 4 RepliesI have created a user control and need to know how I can let the user change some of the properties of this control at runtime and have the values persist on next startup. There are multiple instances of this control on the form.
View 10 Repliesi've written an app to enumerate forms + controls in a project at runtime:
it lists form names in a listbox + when a control is selected, it lists hierarchical controls in a treeview. by selecting a control in the treeview you can view its properties in a propertygrid.
here's the problem: how can i use the propertygrid to actually persistently change those properties?
at the moment you can change properties in the propertygrid but it doesn't change the control's properties, either persistently or otherwise.
here's the code. (you can download the full project at: [URL]
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
ListBox1.Items.AddRange((From t As Type In Me.GetType().Assembly.GetTypes() _
Where t.BaseType Is GetType(Form) _
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I have this class
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Public Class Customer
Public Property AccountNumber() As String
Public Property AccountCreationDate() As String
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This works but I tried to loop thru the properties of the class with a For Each/Next loop. It does not work as the intellisense won't co-operate with Items I think i need like "PropertyInfo" . After reading, I see that only thru Reflection can I do this. Well, Reflection has me baffled at the moment.
I have a class with properties in it . The properties in it are all named the same with the columns names in the database.The reason for that is that i want to loop through all the properties within the class and dynamically create an sql query with the parameters in it . Then dynamically create the parameters and add them into the oraclecommand , everything works well until one of the properties ( QTY ) is set to 0 . When it is set to 0 , during the properties loop ,it will check it as nothing and bypasses the QTY property , with that i am missing one of the columns.class with properties , Notice the property Qty it is Nullable(Of Integer) , it is because when inserting data into the database , sometimes i would want it to be null instead of default 0 .
Public Class HDB
Public Property BONum() As String
Public Property Owner() As String
Public Property Qty() As Nullable(Of Integer)
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I'm making a control and I am trying to finalize my design time properties grid. I have several List(of Class) items as public properties and when I click on the design time menu (while testing the control) there is the word "Collection" and a button with an ellipsis (...) that brings up a neat pop up with the buttons Add/remove and all of the public properties of the collection's class on the right hand side. Basically for a non-collection instance of a class (with public properties) I'd like a similar button to show up. I know I could put all of the properties in the main control class and group them, but I like the pop up box feature. Anyway to duplicate this? (think font grid item etc.)
View 3 RepliesI have created multiple dropdown list at runtime and populated with data. I also have added an eventhandler to determine the selected value of the drop down list.
The code is as follows :
Dim tbl As New Table()
tbl.EnableViewState = "true"
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Can I change the app name at run time[code]...
View 4 RepliesIs there a way to dynamically create properties at runtime in VB .NET using introspection?
e.g. Suppose I had a class
Public Class Foo
Public Property Bar() As String
get
...
end get
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Is there a way to create property Bar at runtime?
I have a very simple setup, single mycontrol.ascx with assoicated mycontrol.ascx.designer.vb and mycontrol.ascx.vb file.
mycontrol.ascx embeds a single reference to a custom control: "MyMenu":
<mM:myMenu id="myMenu1" runat="server" />
This has created a protected reference in the mycontrol.ascx.designer.vb file:
Protected WithEvents myMenu1 As Global.CustomControls.MyMenu
Now, when I breakpoint the Page_Load() event of mycontrol.ascx, and inspect the members returned from the type via:
Me.GetType().GetMembers()
I cannot any reference to myMenu1. If I look at the control with intellisence, the property is accessible:
Me.myMenu1
what I'm missing and what I need to do to access designer created properties at runtime through reflection?
i am writing a VB front end (VS 2008 .NET 3.5) to a data loading program that involves moving the contents of CSV flat files into SQL Server 2005 staging tables. I have had some experience with DTS in SQL 2000 so I decided to use SSIS packages to load the CSV data. Creating the packages in BIDS worked fine for the development environment where I hard-coded the Connections and file paths. The problem arises when I will release this program to 30 different sites that do not have SQL Server admins to help changing the configuration.
I have a SQL table in which I will put all the necessary path information and I can pull that into the VB program on startup. I need to see an example of how I can set the properties from VB once the package is instantiated and opened.Here is an example of where I plan to set those properties and run the packages.
Private Function RunPackages() As Boolean
Try
Dim oApp As New Application
Dim oPackage As New Package
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Even though I am using a configuration file in the example, I am finding it difficult to edit the configuration files for each site. I see that there are methods and properties exposed for the oPackage instance. However, I can't find a good reference for the Class model to use as a guideline. All the examples expect packages to be run and configured with SQL Server and BIDS. direct manipulation of package properties in VB or C#?I am now considering using the old standby SQL Bulk Insert. It almost appears as if the Data Tasks are just wrappers for the Bulk Insert operation. Furthermore we have several sites still using SQL Server 2000. With the economy the way it is, most of those sites do not want to spend ANY extra money upgrading to SQL 2005 or 2008.
However, having a good resource to learn how to manipulate SSIS packages from the CLR would be very helpful. I have heard that in SQL 2008 things have changed even more. It is maddeneing that once I learn a "new" Microsoft technology it seems to be discarded by MS in their next release in favor of a "better" alternative.
how to handle movement of buttons that are made in runtime. What my program does is writes the name of a button that is made in runtime, the left, and top cordinate into a textfile. When the user reopens the program it needs to load the button in the same spot. So far i have a streamreader reading the file in each line. There is a one sentence split by ",". Each of the three components are loaded into an array. how can i call the buttons it i am unsure of the name. Possible answer could include using sender, addhandler.
Private Sub LoadBuildingToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles LoadBuildingToolStripMenuItem1.Click
Dim File As OpenFileDialog = New OpenFileDialog
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how to change the properties of control which are created at run time. The actual situation goes like this: I will be creating 4 picture boxes at runtime and assigning pictures to them. Now if i wanted to change those pictures, i am not getting how to call those picture boxes.
View 6 RepliesDim mControl As Object
For Each mControl In Me.Controls
If TypeOf mControl Is TextBox Then
If mControl.Text = String.Empty Then
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I have 20 controls that I created on a form. the names are like btnRing1, btnRing2, btnRing3, etc.
So I have a do while loop , and I have my variables in place. One line of code is "btnRing1.Start = PlrName" So PlrName is a variable, pulling that info from a database. I don't want to list each btnRing1, 2, 3 in each block of code in my loop.
Is there a way to use the name btnRing + 1, or something like that so I don't have to list all 20 controls in my code.
I know I can dynamically build the controls, but I can only have 20, so I need to have a little control on the numbers. So I need to have the controls already built.
I have a winform and i have about 30 labels and 30 picture boxes on it. What i would like to do is fill each label and picturebox with a value and image from a backend database. I could have easily done this in vb6 using control struture , for eg.
for x = 1 to 30
picturebox(x).image = value from database
label(x).caption = value from database
next x
Is there something similar i can do in vb.net. I search a lot but found only complex programs difficult to understand and too much of OOP.
I am working on a TCG card game and I am having some trouble of thinking how to find the Properties of a Picturebox that was created at RunTime through a Click Event.
Here is the Code I have This is the Sub that I have to create the Pictureboxes...
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Private Sub CreatePictureBox(ByVal name As String, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal height As Integer, ByVal width As Integer, ByVal picture As String)
Dim PB As New PictureBox
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In designer i had a button with errorprovider.The button show 3 extra properties at button's property grid in design time.Error on ErrorProvider1
IconAlignmnent on
IconPadding on
But how can i show this 3 extra properties in propertygrid at run time?
Private Sub Form_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim propertyGrid1 As New PropertyGrid()
propertyGrid1.CommandsVisibleIfAvailable = True[code].....
What I've done is create a User Control Library (Project) and I've added a single User Control to that project. The control contains a single FlowLayoutPanel, and I created a Property on the control itself to pass the FlowDirection from the Control to its FlowLayoutPanel child.
Build, reference, component appears in the Toolbox and everything works fine, but the property on the control does not appear in the Properties window when I go to edit it at design time.
I would like to be able to set Control visual properties such as color, boarder, flat style, etc. on the base class of the control so that as I add new instances of the control, each instance inherits the visual properties of the base. I have tried using Application Settings but it appears as though I need to reference an application setting manually each time I add the control to a form. This is a Windows Form question.
View 4 RepliesI am trying to loop through my repeater control and get the textbox values.However, I am getting an error: {"Object reference not set to an instance of an object."}
my code is:
Dim txtField As TextBox
Dim j As Integer = 0
'Confirm if user has entered atleast one quantity
For Each item In rptRequestForm.Items
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I'd like to go through all the items of a ListView control in order to ... well execute some code. I suppose I have to use the "For i=1 to ..." statement , but I am not familiar at all with this control. As I said , I'd like to check all of the items (the elements in the first column) and for each of them that has "Yes" on the third column , I would like to run the rest of the code .
View 9 RepliesI tried it and get an error but maybe I'm tring the wrong way. Can a usercontrol inherate an application defined class ie.. could you inheritance a classic rect class into a user control to add the hight and width properties to the control without having to do all the coding all over again? Currently I just declair a private instance of the class within the control and then encapsalate. It would be nice if I could just inherit all the functionality of my classes into controls designed to implament the classes.
View 1 RepliesIs there anyway that I can access all the properties of a control during runtime and
get their values. I dont want to specify the property name. I should get the all the
property names and their values. It is something like reflection namespace in VB.NEt
I have a problem: I want to code a program which can get properties of controls in orther program or other project (VB.Net project). I don't know where to begin?
View 1 Repliesi had designed a form with various controls added some days ago. Accordingly i had coded the controls. And today i didnt like the look and feel of the form, so i copied the controls for a while and then re-pasted it over a new control (panel). Now when i double click to see the underlying code of the control generates a new event. I mean i had a button as Button1 and its underlying code was under the Button1_Click event. But now its is like Button1_Click_1 which i dont understand. Is it due to formation of control array or what? I want the button to be remapped to Button1_Click event.
View 4 RepliesI am able to bind my datasource to the textblock for the display text. However I would like to set the Fontweight to bold if the value of the checkbox foo is checked. I'm trying to use IMultiValueConverter to accomplish this, but have had no luck so far.
<CheckBox Name="foo"/>
<TextBlock Name="bar" Text="{Binding Path=Name}">
<TextBlock.FontWeight>
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In our IDE, for example, Visual Studio, if we display the properties of a System.Windows.Forms.Button control, we see some properties that expose anoter set of properties. For example: FlatAppearance, Font, Location, Margin, etcetera.I would like to do something similar in a custom control.I know the code behind is wrong, but here is an example of what I´m trying to do:
Public Class StateOfMyCustomControl
Public Enum EnumVisibility
Visible
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In my IDE, in the properties window of my custom control, I would like to see my property State, with the possibility of display it to set the properties Visibility and EventManagement.