I can't seem to figure this out. I basically am trying to write a class, not a usercontrol, that can show up in the ToolBox. I want it to act similar to how a ContextMenuStrip or BindingSource does, in that there is no UI when you throw in on the Form, it goes down to that bottom part (name?).
1) What do you call those types of components?
2) Why won't this test class that I wrote do the same thing?
vb.net Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
<ClassInterfaceAttribute(ClassInterfaceType.AutoDispatch), ComVisibleAttribute(True), _
System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItemAttribute(True), System.ComponentModel.DesignTimeVisible(True)> _
Public Class FilterMenuStrip
[Code]...
If I try to add it to the ToolBox, I get a "There are no components in '<The DLL>' that can be placed on the toolbox."
The particular control I'm trying to figure out is a UserControl. When I design it as a separate DLL, add it to the Toolbox, then drag it onto the form, it shows up. But when I declare the instance in Form_Load & add it to the Forms Controls, it doesn't show up. (Note that I'm dealing with two different UserControls here as what I don't really want to do is create it as a DLL. It's specific to this project & that's where I want it-in this project. I suppose I could create it as a separate project in this solution, but again-that's not what I want to do. I can add a UserControl to this project, but I can't seem to *use* it. Frustrating.)
Dim X As New Class3 X.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(96, 74) X.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(5, 5) Me.Controls.Add(X) Me.Refresh()
Class3 inherits System.Windows.forms.UserControl, and contains a label.OK, found that I can make the UserControl appear by setting the BackColor (X.BackColor=). Doesn't seem like I should need to do that as it's set in Class3, but apparently when I add it to the form it picks up the form's backcolor-which might be the way UserControls work.
But, it still doesn't show the label that's on the UserControl-just a block of color where I placed the UserControl.And now, I might have solved this problem only to raise another. I finally noticed that although Class3 had an InitializeComponent sub it lacked a Sub New-so it never called the InitializeComponent sub.
I added a Sub New that does nothing except call InitializeComponent & now I'm getting the whole thing. I guess now the question is why the Sub New is required for Class3 but not for the DLL? (Or maybe it was created automatically for the DLL but not for Class3? I'll check the hidden code in the DLL project to see if it was created or not.)
I have a function in a Class that executes some code, in the function I am trying to populate the ListBox1 on another form but I am having trouble. Here is what I tried so far:
vb 'bellow data is in class function Dim INDEX As Index ' location to ListBox1
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Anyone knows a way to do this both for VS.NET2005 and VS.NET2008?
I found 2 ways:
Creating a .vscontent and .vsi file and execute it, which has 3 problems: Cannot run in silent mode - cannot create a custom named toolbox - my dll is not digitally signed and it will show a warning box, non acceptable![url]...
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using the Add method in a custom class to add child objects to a parent.
Using the listview as an an example, to add a new ListViewItem to a ListView, you use the syntax:
ListView1.Items.Add(text)
I understand that this is adding a new object to the Items Collection, but what I don't understand is how to create this Add method and specify the object to be added as a specific type (in this case the type being System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem)
how (using the above example) Items is declared in the ListView object class, and how the Add method is used to add ListViewItem SPECIFICALLY to that collection.
I have a class that represents the table of a db-row. Its properties are the columns of the table. I add a new row to the table with the following code:
Public Sub AddRow(oTestRow As TestRow) Dim sql As String With oTestRow
[Code]....
That is just an example, but my classes have around 30-40 properties and this brings a very large and complex sql string. Creating, editing or maintaining these sql strings for many classes could generate errors. I am wondering if any compact way or method exists in order to add the whole object's istance (the properties of course) to the table "TestTable" without writing such a large sql string. I created the TestRow in the way that its properties are exactly the columns of the table "TestTable" (with the same name). But I did not found in the ADO.NET anything that could be used.
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that, the expandable arrow on my dbml file listing is missing, right clicking and selecting "View Code" just displays an empty partial class as below.
