VS 2008 - Setting Properties Of Custom Controls In Windows Forms

Jul 8, 2009

I need to work with custom controls, I want to be able to set the properties of my controls so when I put them on my windows forms they will show up in the properties window thing.

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Setting Font Properties For Controls One At A Time?

Sep 25, 2011

In VB6 I would simply retrieve the user font setting from the .ini file, load into variables and then apply to the appropriate control.

text1.fontbold = userfontbold
text1.fontitalic = userfontitalic
text1.fontunderline = userfontunderline
etc.

I'm struggling to understand how to do this vb.net The following code works, but sets all three at one time

Text1.Font = New Font("Courier", 10, FontStyle.Bold Or FontStyle.Italic Or FontStyle.Underline)Since the user can have many different combinations of settings, I would like to be able to add just one of these properties at a time, but can't seem to figure out how to do it.

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Working With Properties In Custom Controls?

Feb 1, 2011

I am trying to learn how to create Windows Forms custom controls in VB.Net by creating a .Net version of an old control I created in VB6. On this control, I have a UserControl with a Label (lblCaption), and several of the properties I add to the control should be passed to the label.This is the code I tried for the ForeColor property:

Code:
Protected mcolForeColor As Color = Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.ButtonHighlight)
Public Overrides Property ForeColor() As Color
Get

[code]....

When I change the ForeColor on the control in my test project, lblCaption does change to the color I selected; however, when I run the application, the label changes back to the default (button highlight) color, and the value of the property is also reverted back when I return to the form designer.What would be the proper way to implement the ForeColor property on a custom control?

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Setting Focus On Nested Custom Controls?

Jan 10, 2011

I have a nested custom control that I need to set focus on. I have it all internally wired up to automatically set the focus when the form loads, but when it comes up on screen, the designated accept button for the parent form is in focus instead. Even when is disassociate the accept button it still does not set correctly. How can I ensure my desired control gets focus.

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Setting FontStyle - Allows The User To Change Properties Of The Controls Including The Font?

Jun 19, 2009

I'm making an editor for my app. which allows the user to change properties of the controls including the font.I'm storing the values in a collection but I'm having trouble re-setting the fontstyle from the stored value. I'm storing the font information like so...

FontString = SpeedGroupbox.Font.Name & "|" & SpeedGroupbox.Font.Size & "|" & SpeedGroupbox.Font.Style
EditedControlsCollection.Add(FontString, "SpeedGroupbox.Font")

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Forms :: Same Properties Setting Of Components?

Feb 9, 2009

Did vs2008 or vb.net got some of the solution to solve properties setting of the components are same with each other?
Example: like I want to standard the datagridviews' property, each of the datagridviews' property is same with each other. but each time I create the new datagridview. I have to manually set the datagridview 1 by 1.

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IDE :: Setting The Same Properties For All Forms In A Single Application

May 15, 2012

Most of the apps I write have a base / home form and a few other forms (three of four typically) which pop up in response to controls clicked by the user. I'd like to be able to set some properties to be the same for all the forms in an app; particularly properties like BackColor and FormBorderStyle. Yes, I can manually set the individual properties for each form in the VB IDE, but I'd prefer to be able to have one line of code in the base / home form for each property along with one line for each dependent form which says something to the effect of "use the same property value as the base / home form has". Overall, my objective would be to have one single line of code in the app which, when changed, would apply the changed property to all the forms. For example, a single line which I can change to take the BackColor from Apple to Orange for all the forms ...

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VS 2008 Resize Forms And Controls When Execute Exe File In Any Windows?

May 14, 2012

i am working Vb.NET 2008 Windows Appl. I was created some Forms which are having some controls. If i run the Appl in my sys its working fine. But if run .exe file into other system like Windows 7 with 125% text size, then the forms and Controls are expanding i want to scroll it out. Is it any solution for fit these Controls and Forms or comapre the screen size and resize the forms and controls automatically..

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Forms :: Set Controls Properties All At Once?

Jul 4, 2009

is there any way that i can set the property of a control all at once? like for every button, i want their backcolor to be red. something like that.also is it advisable to set the properties of a control in design view rather than code it? does it have any performance issues?

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Add Custom Properties For Windows Service?

Oct 22, 2009

I have developed a Windows service application in VB.NET.My need is to have custom property tab like "General", "Log On", "Recovery", and "Dependencies". Because I need to configure my service and also want to display some extra information in that extra tab.

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Forms :: Programmatically Setting Controls Visibility?

Nov 9, 2009

I have a panel with 5 labels and 5 listviews in it. By default they are hidden. At runtime I want only the ones shown that are needed. For example, if there are enough players for three tables then three tables should show up. I know how to make the controls visible, but not sure how to control how many are actually displayed. I also think I may have to do seperate loops and seperate the control types?

Private Sub Set_Tables()
Dim tables As Long
tables = Math.Ceiling(NumPlayers / NumPerTable)

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Get Custom Properties For A Custom Control Into The Visual Studio Properties List?

Nov 25, 2009

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.

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Setting Order For Different Windows Forms?

Mar 3, 2012

i am working on a college project in visual basic 2010. in my program, i noticed at the last minute that i needed to add a "main" window. in this main window, i want to have all my other forms opened by buttons (i know how to do that part of it).

the problem i keep having is the window with the options to save the information pops up, not the main window. is there a way to easily fix this? maybe a snippet of code, because the only way i can think of is to scrap the project, start over from scratch adding my main window first, then the others.

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Practise A Chapter On Building Custom Windows Controls?

Jan 17, 2012

I have a few free days during which I am trying to learn something. I posted my last question in Visual Basic IDE but no one has returned with any responses. Iam not sure if I am posting this too in the right forum!

I am trying to practise a chapter on Building Custom Windows Controls. But I don't have Windows Forms Control Library to start in my Visual Basic 2010 Express. I downloaded Umbraco but there is no visual interface to it. I can't afford to buy the Visual Basic proper edition. Programmerss

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Setting Up A 'Timeout' Feature In Windows Forms App?

Jul 29, 2010

Dows anyone know how I can build a timeout feature into a windows forms app.

The app is event driven, but I am thinking of somehow using a timer which counts down for say 10minutes, and one the timer ticks then we time out the user.

The problem I have is how can I reset the timer each time the mouse is moved or clicked.

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VS 2008 - Setting Properties Column To Product Name And Company

Jan 28, 2011

I have built a deployment program (vS 2008 Standard Edition) and tried to set the Properties column to a product name and company. I have also tried leaving these blank. I'm really trying to configure my setup.exe so that it installs by default in Program FilesMyFolderName without adding a subdirectory to the path. Is there somewhere I can specify exactly the default path for my setup without it adding a subdirectory? What do I edit?

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Create A Misc Properties For A Textbox In Windows Forms?

Mar 18, 2009

I am using vb.net 2008,how to create a misc properties for a textbox in windows forms?

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VS 2005 "Windows Form Designer Generated Code": Change The Order Of Setting Of Properties?

May 9, 2009

this.label39.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Tahoma", 8.25F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, ((byte)(0)));
this.label39.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(37, 303);
this.label39.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;

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VS 2008 PropertyGrid And Custom Control Properties?

Aug 12, 2010

I have a custom control and have created some properties for it.When I click on that control, its properties are then shown in the PropertyGrid.The problem, is that I only want to show some of the predefined properties as well as my custom properties.Does anyone know how I can filter out the properties I want shown?

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Custom Grid Control Using GDI + For Windows Forms?

Nov 4, 2009

I have to design a custom "log grid" control to use in another of my projects.Up front, I am new to vb.net 2008. I have used VB6 for years and I am trying to learn how to resove the differences as I go. But I need help.

This log grid contains 96 columns and 4 rows.I tried using the TableLayoutPanel and a Panel per cell but found the control to slow to paint. That's 384 discreet controls.I am now trying a usercontrol with a panel and GDI+ to create the grid. I've created a collection for the columns and a collection for the rows. So far so good. My mouse clicks raise the correct events per cell.

I now need to indicate which column the mouse is over. This is the problem. The column must be highlighted by a vertical bar from the top of the column to the bottom. It must also be transparent. I need to see the gridlines under the highlight. I've tried using region using the following code. (myRegion is declared Private MyRegion as Region at module level for persistance)

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Make Custom Properties In Properties Window To Refresh Upon Change Via Code?

Apr 26, 2012

[code]I want to make the Properties Window to update the properties for X and Y at each MouseMove, so they become immediately visible for the user.

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Building A Custom Installer From A Windows Forms Project?

Aug 11, 2010

What actually is required to consider something installed on a machine. What happens in the background? I know VB offers an installer but Im trying to build my own from scratch. What do I need to do to accomplish this?

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.NET Windows Forms Custom Designer Doesn't Refresh The Menu

Oct 26, 2011

I have created a custom designer (PannelloSfondoDesigner) for my custom control, a background panel (PannelloSfondo).

<Designer(GetType(PannelloSfondo.PannelloSfondoDesigner))>
Public Class PannelloSfondo
Inherits UserControl

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It works, I click the little arrow, the context menu appears:I click the menu item, the event is fired, the control is docked:but the menu description is not updated or refreshed (it should show "Undock from parent container"). Then if I click outside the control to deselect it and then I click back on the arrow to show the menu, the right menu item is displayed:How do I refresh the menu items?

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VS 2008 Changing Properties Of Controls Created At Runtime?

Nov 23, 2009

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.

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VS 2008 Custom Class Called CustomItem That Holds Name And 'SomeProperty' Properties

Apr 22, 2009

Let's say I have a custom class called CustomItem that holds the Name and 'SomeProperty' properties:[code]Now, on the click of a Button, I want to select the CustomItem whose SomeProperty is equal to "Property 4". Of course, this is just "Item 4", but the names and properties are not that correlated in the real application than they are in this example.I have spent ages a long time ago figuring out how to do this. I could not directly set the SelectedItem, because I first need to get the CustomItem that actually matches my condition (SomeProperty = "Property 4"). My solution was to use a loop, looping through each item in the ListBox, and setting the SelectedItem when the right property has been found.[code]Now, is this the correct way to approach this problem? Is the LINQ query correct, or can it be done easier, without the casting? Also, is the LINQ query faster than the For loop, especially for a large amount of items? I expect it to be, but I don't know how to test this.

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Create Custom Control Such As A Menu For Windows Forms Application Using Program?

Nov 14, 2011

I've search the net in order to create a custom control but nothing I find is worth looking at, The main thing I want to do is create a skinengin via DLL and import it in my vb 2010 then using or creating some sort of skin builder where I can create a full setting file which contains all the details of the customization regarding the Form(Look, Feel and the controls such as a menu), I have used Iriskin and multiple apps doing this for me and when a user installs my application they still recieve a message about buying the registered DLL file, I would like to create it completely from scratch.

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Forms :: Generating Custom Code For A Windows Form From User Input

Mar 30, 2009

I am trying to figure out how to generate code from user input. In Visual Studio 2008, Visual Basic.My script always begins with:function Init (Quest)Then from here a user would input a quest name, type and zone in a interface using windows forms.[code]I would also like to have these available on the UI but wont generate unless a user checks a box to add them or there is a box already for them but wont step into the code unless the user enters something into the box.Is there anyone that can explain how I would go about doing this. Or maybe some kind of visual studio plugin that will help me out.

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PropertyGrid Custom Properties - Custom Sub Properties

Oct 21, 2009

I've populated a PropertyGrid with a custom class. How do you create and display a sub property similar to Size (Height, Width) which has two values or Point(X,Y)? For example, the class is Test and the property is Item as string. I want to expand Item to have two sub properties, A and B.

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.net - Visual Studio's Windows Forms Designer From Deleting Controls?

Apr 20, 2010

With several forms of mine, I occasionally run into the following issue: I edit the form using the designer (Visual Studio 2008, Windows Forms, .NET 2.0, VB.NET) to add components, only to find out later that some minor adjustments were made (e.g. the form's size is suddenly changed by a few pixels), and controls get deleted. This happens silently — event-handling methods automatically have their Handles suffix removed, too, so they never get called, and there's no compiler error. I only notice much later or not at all, because I'm working on a different area in the form.

As an example, I have a form with a SplitContainer containing an Infragistics UltraListView to the left, and an UltraTabControl to the right. I added a new tab, and controls within, and they worked fine. I later on found out that the list view's scrollbar was suddenly invisible, due to its size being off, and at least one control was removed from a different tab that I hadn't been working on.

Is this a known issue with the WinForms Designer, or with Infragistics? I use version control, of course, so I can compare the changes and merge the deleted code back in, but it's a tedious process that shouldn't be necessary. Are there ways to avoid this? Is there a good reason for this to occur?

One clue is that the control that was removed may have code (such as a Load event handler) that expects to be run in run time, not design time, and may be throwing an exception. Could this cause Visual Studio to remove the control?

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Forms :: Relocating And Resizing Controls In A SCROLLABLE Windows Form?

Jul 12, 2010

i have created a windows form that has some labels, lines , buttons and i have enabled autoscroll property to true. i am having trouble with relocating and resizing of the controls with resizing of form and change in screen resolution.i have used a code liike dim tmpctrl as control

for each tmpctrl in me.controls
tmpctrl.setbounds((tmpctrls.location.x/X)*me.width, (tmpctrls.location.y/Y)*me.height, (tmpctrls.size.width/X)*me.width,(tmpctrls.size.height/Y*me.height))
next

now as my form is a scrollable form.and the total window portion with respect to which i want to resize n relocate. m having trouble in choosing X , Y in the above code.

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