Property Editor For Array Of Controls

May 21, 2012

If you have a Component (or Control) with a public property of type Control, then in the Properties Window you automatically get a drop down of all the controls on the same form as the component, which is very handy. If you want to do the same thing but with an array of controls then the Properties Window shows the ellipsis and you get the Collection Editor with the Add / Remove buttons creating and deleting an instance of Control (i.e. the base class used for deriving all the others) - not quite so handy.

How do I get a list of the controls on a form and be able to select more than one? I think I need to create a custom UITypeEditor? Assuming that's right then I think I need a dialog box (like the Font dialog) with Available and Selected ListBoxes with Add / Remove buttons and appropriate code to link the control array in the component to changes in the Selected list box? Along with an appropriate UITypeEditor derived class.

Assuming that's correct, how do you get a list of the controls on a form at design time? Can I do that form design as a Windows Form, just as normal, or is it all done by hand? I've seen some code that does it with a UserControl rather than a Form, presumably that's for when you want a 'pop-up' control (like the one for Color selection)?

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TabIndex Property - Loop Through Windows Form Controls Array

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Any hunk of code that loops trough the windows form controls array, and based on top/left to bottom/right, resets the TabIndex property? I've mashed a huge form together and expect my user community to want to move things around, and I don't want to have to fool around with this over and over again.

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Property Editor For Custom Property Is Disabled?

Jun 16, 2009

I have a problem with a property on a custom property of a class. Here is the actual code for the inherited form

Public Class Form : Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Private _Active_Application As Custom.Classes.Active_Application = New Custom.Classes.Active_Application
<System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsable(ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Always)> _
Public Property Active_Application() As Custom.Active_Application

[code]....

but when i use a separate class to inherit the above class this property ('Active_Application', not Custom.Classes.Active_Applicaton) is disabled.

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I have created a usercontrol in VB2008 that draws a rectangle and has the ability to apply Border3DStyles to the control.The problem I have is being able to select which sides to apply the border on during design time.If you look at the BorderSides property of the ToolStripStatusLabel you will see how it lets you select the sides to apply the border to.

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VS 2005 Specifying Custom Property Editor?

Nov 10, 2010

We have a Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid control that we use to edit application settings. We expose the application settings through a class, giving each setting attributes to control the appearance. An example property definition is shown below:

<DisplayName("Snap Tolerance"), _
Category("Tolerances"), _
Description("The distance (in Points - 1/72"") to be searched for snap points.")> _

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Jun 19, 2009

i have created control array , now i wann to loop around as well wann to find which control has triggered the respective event my code :

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May 15, 2011

Are there any good free alternatives to DevExpress data grids (WinForms)?I am looking for WinForms Data Grid and Data Editor Controls.

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Mar 23, 2012

I want to set a property of an object that is an array type. If I was declaring and initialising an array of objects, I'd do this: Dim x() as SomeObject = {obj1, obj2}

I don't seems to be able to do something similar with the property, can you do this, does anyone know the correct syntax? myObj.ArrayProperty = {obj1, obj2}

I get Expression Expected Error on the first {

Infer Off
Explicit On
Strict On

Answer : myObj.ArrayProperty = New objType() {obj1, obj2}

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Aug 20, 2011

I cannot work out the correct formatting of the above type addressing for a textbox in a (sort of) array of textboxes such as

textbox_1
textbox_2
textbox_3
etc.

The controls are on Tabs but I don't think I need to include the Tab as a container control, just refer directly to the textbox on the form, but I cannot work out how this is done in VB .NET format. In VB6 it was relatively straightforward but VB .NEt seems it is different. Can anyone help me with the correct way to formulate

[Code]...

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Dec 14, 2009

Does anybody use the Tag property of controls & forms? If so, what for?

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How can I add a new property to a button or a form or any thing else in the properties window?
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Apr 24, 2012

Let's say I've got a TableLayoutPanel with 50 cells in it. Inside each cell is a separate text label. If I want to change the color of each of those 50 labels at run-time to the same color, is there an efficient way to do it? (so that I don't have to write 50 lines of LabelX.ForeColor = X, etc).

Not that I would mind writing 50 lines of code for this, but I would like to figure out the most efficient way to do this sort of thing, for future reference.

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May 23, 2009

How can I set the Anchor property of controls in code?

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May 3, 2012

I'm used to webdeveloping, and when I work with databases, I usually use some text for the Text-property of a radio button, and the row's ID as Value-property. This makes it very easy to save to databases.

Is the an equivalent in winforms for the Value-property, or will I have to identify rows based on the text in the control?

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Feb 11, 2010

I'm trying to create a property that will allow the setting of a last name based on a variety of inputs. The code that calls this is parsing a name field.In some instances it will have a single last name, in others, a array of last names that need to be concatenated. I want to keep my concatenation code in a single place to make maintenance easier.[code]I've tried numerous variations on this, even putting multiple Set in the same Property, but nothing seems to work. There must be some way to take in an array and a single instance value. The compiler clearly knows if the incoming object is an array or not.I tried working with just a property of type String(), but then I can't return a String. The only solution that I can think of is differently named properties, which makes using the class more difficult, or a whole bunch of Subs and Functions overloading each other.

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Mar 18, 2010

How can i add a method to the webbrowser controls .Document property?

(i.e. webbrowser1.document.[myMethod])

I've been researching Attributes. Am i on the right track?

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Preventing Controls Enable Property From Changing?

Mar 9, 2010

I m implementing control based security in my application. where i m saving controlname (per form) in database, which are to be restricted. So far I have implemented the security and restricted control get disabled.

Now what i want to do is that i have to prevent that for those controls the "control.Enable" property should not change. how can i restrict that.

I have achieved the functionality by canceling enable=true property in "Invalidated" event of the control. but this is not some generic way. I have to map this event for all controls in all forms :(.

What i really want is that as all my froms are derived from same parent which implements the security. so the parent should some how restrict enable property from changing.

So,HOW CAN I PREVENT CONTROL enable property from changing in their parent class?

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May 16, 2010

I have a custom control of type MyListControl with a Property called NotifiedList. I would like that when selecting that property in the Property Grid at runtime, that a dropdown list is populated with all the instances of type MyListControl that shared the same container as the original control.

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Feb 3, 2011

I have an MDI form on which I have placed a ToolStripContainer. I have set the BackColor of the toolstripcontainer.contentpanel to an ApplicationsSettings property binding for BackColor. At design time the background colour of the contentpanel reflects the colour in the saved Applications Settings. However at run-time the background colour of the content panel is not the colour that has been saved in the applications settings (in this case DarkSeaGreen). It continues to display the colour from the current

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Length Property In Array?

Nov 16, 2011

I just don't understand why (intValues.Length - 1) is used: to be precise why the ( - 1 ) is there?

Dim intValues(25) as integer
For intCount = 0 to (intValues.Length -1)
MessageBox.show (intValues(intCount).ToString())
Next

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Making A Property Into An Array?

Oct 31, 2010

This is my code for a class named Gun

Private GetCapacity As Integer
GetCounter As Integer
Private GetPosition As TV3D65.TV_3DVECTOR
'Make ".Property"'s called capacity, outofammo, etc..
Property Capacity As Integer

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Oct 30, 2006

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Oct 14, 2009

Stack Overflowers:I have been racking my brain trying to get an List(of T) type array to be the property of a class. I know there has to be a simple way of doing it and I can't find a good example on google. Everytime I create a class that I think will work I get the "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when I try to use it. My thinking now is that I cannot use it in the way I was hoping to. Here is my latest attempt:

Public Class Item
Private _itemno As String
Public Property ItemNo() As String
Get

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I/we (my class) created a usercontrol that included a picturebox and a timer. We declared the public variable to access the timer enabled property. Placing the user control onto a Form we are able to enable the timer. However, when we went to declare an array for the control we could not access the properties... We successfully declared control arrays using base class control...

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Array Property In Mdi Child Form

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I have two forms, an mdi parent and an mdi child. Each instance of the mdi child has an array of graphicspaths. I create the first instance of the mdi child form and add several graphicspaths to the array. I create another instance of the mdi child form and add several different graphicspaths to that array.

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May 19, 2009

I need to be able to refer to a set of controls on a Windows form using an array, but I'm having a few difficulties.

The Windows form (WForm.vb) contains two textboxes (TextBox1 and TextBox2).

In Module1.vb I have created an array reference to the textboxes thus:

Public wf As New WForm
Public ReadOnly TB() As Control = {wf.TextBox1, wf.TextBox2}

Then, in WForm.vb I have tried to refer to the textboxes via the array:

eg.

TB(0).Text = "Change text to this"

I know that the array is referring to the textboxes, because when I hover the cursor over the line 'TB(0).Text = "Change text to this" ' in debug mode, I get the following:

(0)|{Text = "Change text to this"}
(1)|{Text = ""}

but for some reason, the text in TextBox1 on the form isn't actually being changed!
(There is obviously no problem with change the textbox's text at this point in the code, because I've tried substituting the array reference 'TB(0)' with a direct reference to the textbox 'TextBox1', and the problem disappears.

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Make An Array Of Different Controls?

Sep 3, 2010

I've been making a table control for a few days, and I've got to the point of making it capable of accepting new data. To do this, I'm making it generate a row of text boxes, combo boxes, and date selection windows along the row that you're entering data into.

I've tried using an array of 'control' types and changing them to whatever specific control I need as I generate it. That sort of works. For example, the code under 'Case "Employees"' below will make a combo box display on the form, but 'ControlArray(i).Items.Add' gives an error because it doesn't think that ControlArray(i) is actually a combobox yet.

You might also be interested to know that everything will have to be dynamically generated since the table I'm using will not always be the same (and the Select Case code will eventually be replaced by something that checks for relationships in the database).

Dim ControlArray(NumberOfColumns - 1) As Control
For i As Integer = 0 To NumberOfColumns - 1
ControlArray(i) = New TextBox

[Code].....

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Apr 19, 2009

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

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Jul 13, 2010

I have class [code]...

But i get error in For Loop: Object reference not set to an instance of an object at the first line of for loop.

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I have created a class that contains a property array, but I cant use the setters and getters.

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