VS 2008 Property Only Visible During DEBUG?
Jan 7, 2010VS 2008 [RESOLVED] Property only visible during DEBUG
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VS 2008 Property Only Visible During DEBUG
Aug 21, 2009I have a UserControl that retrieves a bunch of data from a database. It uses the current date as one parameter to determine which data to show.
The database however is a little old and has no data available after April 2009, so while debugging I cannot get any data and hence I can't test the control.
As a solution I simply used a date in the past instead of the current date, just so I could see some data. Obviously, this has to be changed in the release version of the application, but I'm worried it will be forgotten, leaving the control completely broken, and worst of all, it's very hard to tell that it is returning the wrong data, so the users won't see the problem at all.
Now, I'm looking for a way to change the date used during run-time. A property in the UserControl would be the best solution for me. I could have a property UseTestDate or something, and if that was True, the test date was used. It would be set to False by default, so that the regular date is used by default.
The application has a Property Grid which is used to change the properties of the UserControl, so that's how the (test!) user can change this property. He can choose to show the current date (but there probably won't be any data preset), or he can set the UseTestDate property to True and get some old data.
The problem, obviously, is that the end user in the final application will also see this property in the grid! I don't want that obviously, there is no need for them to use a test date.
So I am looking for a way to make this property visible only when the application is run in DEBUG mode (via the VS IDE). I can make a property invisible simply by setting the Browsable attribute to False. I simply don't know when to set this. The attributes only allow a constant, so I cannot use a variable that is True when the application is in debug mode or something.
I tried simply putting the whole property between a conditional compile statement:
#If DEBUG Then
Private _UseTestDate As Boolean
Public Property UseTestDate() As Boolean
[code]...
I am able to Run the application in debug mode, even though there is the error that UseTestDate cannot be found. It seems that the property can be found when I run it (which makes sense of course, as it's only compiled when in debug mode). However, using that code I am unable to Build the application so I can run the executable; the error does not 'vanish' then...
So, how can I build an application that uses a property that is only compiled when the application is run in debug mode?
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If sender Is BDVActive Or sender Is BDVCompleted Then
BDVCases.Visible = True
BDVCases.BringToFront()
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Jan 3, 2010I'm using VS2008 and have created a dll with the following
Public Class Test
Private privatesampleProperty As String
Public Property SampleProperty() As String
Get
[code]....
From what I can see this should not be visible outside the class...
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Sep 17, 2011Can someone clarify if there is ever a need for the below?
When setting a textbox "Visible" property to False is there any reason why I should also set the "Enabled" property to false.
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Sep 16, 2011I have written a Visual Studio 2008 addin that adds controls to a Form. I want some of those controls' Visible property set to False so they're hidden during runtime, so I do this:[code..]
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Apr 20, 2009I got some set of base classes within one namespace and few sets of derived classes in other namespaces. Everything in one project.[code]...
OK, it can be done declaring .SubElements as Protected in BaseElement class. But in this case I cannot access this property from other classes in Base namespace that are not derived from it.
I tried adding Friend keyword, but it made this property visible when I'm instantiating derived classes too.
So... any way to hide some properties when using derived classes while being able to use them using base class?
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Mar 25, 2012I am stumped on this one. I have a panel (pnlKeyPad) that won't change the visible property when I try to set it to True. But when I try to set the Dock Property to DockStyle.Fill it succeeds. I have tried them in different orders, setting the parent property to the splitpanel and nothing seems to fix it. The panel is on a splitpanel that is visible. The panel is set to visible = false by default.
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Apr 11, 2010I want to alter the .visible property of a label based on if a variable is positive or negative (Hiding it for negative values)
But I want to do this for lots of labels so If Statements are too bulky.
I tried this:
Label1.visible = CBool(IntVariable1)
But it turns out CBool returns True for ANY value and False for Zero.I'd assumed it would be True for positive values and False for negatives.How can I do it without if statements?I considered Modulo or SquareRoots to somehow convert a negative number into zero, but didn't want to complicate things with imaginary numbers.
C# - Applying Attribute To Property In Business Object Such That Column Isn't Visible After Databind?
Dec 29, 2011I was just wondering if it is possible to apply an attribute to a property within a business object (MyBusinessObject) such that after the DataSource of a grid is set to a List(Of MyBusinessObject), the visible property of the column will automatically be false. For example:
myGrid.DataSource = New List(Of MyBusinessObject)
Public Class MyBusinessObject
[code]....
VB GridView Control Does Not Allow Code To Access Column When Column Has Visible Property Set To False
Apr 1, 2010VB GridView control will not allow code in the vb code file to access a data column that has its visible property set to false. When it is set to true, the data column can be accessed with no problem. Any suggestions as to how to correct this? I have looked through the documentation, text books, and I have not found anything that gave me any clue as to what the problem could be. I thought that the property was just applied to the column, not that it would remove the column from being accessible.
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Oct 27, 2009I placed this checkbox named owner on my form. When i build the project i got the error as
Quote: 'owner' conflicts with property 'owner' in the base class 'Form' and should be declared 'Shadows'
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Big Panel Visible And Not Visible Based On Selections Made By User
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Jan 25, 2011I have five menu items that i have created as a user control and placed on the master page. Now i want one of the menu items to be visible only for particular user role and not visible for others. Here is what I did. Its not working though.
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Jul 17, 2009I'm having an odd problem when making a form visible and not visible and it not continuing to function. Here is what I have happening. I have a main form (frmMain) that is an MDIParent. On this form I have a menu to open a second form (frmCalculate) and populate a listview from Items in the database.
As I click or select items in the listview on frmCalculate the tag is read and data is pulled based on the id stored in that tag and fills in various fields on the form. This works great. However, I also have a context menu attached to the listview that allows me to perform a "what if" scenerio on the items I am calculating. When I select this menu, I hide the frmCalculate and open the frmWhatIf form where I can mess around with values on the item I had hilighted in the listview on frmCalculate. Nothing is pulled from or written back to the database here, all the information is filled in from fields on frmCalculate. It just allows me to look at rising costs and how they will affect my margins.... anyway.
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VS 2008 - Property Grid - Click On Item Show Its Property
Mar 18, 2009I have a listbox with several list items added. I want that as user click on an item, I should be able to show its property. This should change for different items. For example (hypothetical) : Listbox has numbers 1 - 10. Now when I select 1 I should be able to set property - Name, Lastname, Colour, Age.
When I select 2 I should be able to set - Age, Hair Colour (clr shows), Weight, Date. When I select 3 then - City (combo box drop down), Country, Age only. This way value changes for diff items. One way is to put them in property grid and show them. Though this looks nice but adding/removing items in that is not easy. You need to have a class that refer that to prop grid. Do I have to code for each classes for all values in listbox or is there an easier way to manage items in property grid. If you think prop grid is not the right tool for such an activity then can you suggest something else.
Make Several PictureBox Images Randomly Visible = False And Then Back To Visible = True Giving The Appearance Of Flashing Or Blinking Images?
Jun 28, 2010I have placed several PictureBox Images of different colored dots(which represent lights) on an image of a Christmas Tree. I can make the lights randomly flash using a randomGenerator and a Select case statement. However, the code is very long. There are 67 lights on this tree and the code is 71 pages long. There has to be an easier way to do this. So far I have tried the following with two images of lights just to see if it would work and it does not work:
Dim picLight(2) As
Boolean
For intX
[code]....
VS 2008 : Get Visible State Of A Control?
Apr 28, 2010Ok everyone knows that you can get the visibility of a control by control.visible...now my question is this: how can i get the visibility of a control without taking parent controls into account ...ie. if i have a button in a picture box ... and the picture box is invisible (even though the button property is visible in the designer) the value returns false.How can i return the visible value for the control that is displayed as it would be in the designer?
View 1 RepliesVS 2008 Get Only The Visible Image On Picturebox?
Sep 11, 2009How to get only the visible image on Picturebox
the picture size is 320 x 240 captured from webcam and the picturebox is 240 x 240 the sizemode of picturebox is centered so the image is centered
when saving the image i got 320 x 240 image not 240 x 240
i want to save the image in 240 x 240 pixels how?