VS 2010 Visual Inheritance Of A ToolStrip?
Apr 16, 2010
I am trying to create an infrastructure library to be used by all my projects where one of the project in that library contains the base forms for different things like ViewBase, EditBase, SearchBase & DialogBase. They all are inherited from a Base form which contains a toolstrip control with 3 common buttons for OK, Close & About.Now depending on the type of base form I would like to add few more buttons and controls on the toolstrip during the design time. For example the SearchBase would have a Search, Clear buttons and so forth and so on.
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Sep 21, 2011
I have two Forms, which have similar Functionality (i.e. an amount of similar Controls) but complete different Layout. So the normal inheritedForm (which VS2010 provides) wont work here.
I have tried following:
Public Class BaseForm
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Friend WithEvents Button1 As System.Windows.Forms.Button
[Code].....
So it looks like, the Designer only tries to guess how the Form looks like by inspecting the top-most Class, without compiling the full inheritance-Tree...
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Oct 30, 2008
I'm working on an application which has a common window hierarchy with menus and worked ok on vs2003, but now I'm on VS2008 sp1 trying to generate the same hirarchy and I'm amazed that visual support for differents controls like the menustrip are not working. I've been investigating, and so far it seems that the answer to my question is "it's not supported".
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Oct 23, 2011
I'm developing a VB app, part of which has a 'diary page' metaphor. The page is a panel and I want to put be able to put several different kinds of events on the panel. I've used a User Control for the first type, which works well, and it occurs to me that this and the other events have many properties and methods in common.
So I am wondering if it is possible or desirable to create a 'base' user control with the common properties and methods and have the other events inherit from that? (I am using the word event in the sense of a meeting or workshop rather than a Windows event).
I know one can do Visual Inheritance from a form and I've made a first attempt at applying the same process to my User Control, but when I open the 'inherited' control in the designer, all the properties are disabled and child controls are locked, even though the access modifier is 'Protected'. But I am still feeling my way with inheritance and I'm probably doing something dumb ...
Another approach would be to use MDI, but that feels a bit 'heavyweight' for this app ....
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Jun 18, 2010
Why is it that some components/controls will not be inherited visually in a child form if they are declared with the access modifier Friend vs when they are declared with Protected. For example, I've got a DataSet object in my Parent Form that was initially "Friend" (I drag and dropped it to the form, so it was shown as a control in the designer view), but I noticed that my Child Form did not inherit the control as expected. Once I changed it to "Protected", it showed up in my Child form as expected.I am aware that Protected allows the Child Form to modify the inherited control, but how exactly does this tie in to the issue I described above?
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May 27, 2011
I have 4 WinForm app. Form1 inherits from baseForm, Formv2 inherits from Formv1, v3 from v2, v4 from v3. There are about 2 thousand controls spread across many tabs that contain tabs.
This is really killing Visual Studio 2008, frequently causing it to crash, and just terrible performance in general.
I want to create a FormV5 that inherits only from baseForm but contains all the visual layout of formsv1 through v4 (all of them), (there are no controls on baseForm).
The differences from form to form are mostly adding new controls, with some older controls having to be moved or hidden, and or a few labels changed here and there.
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Mar 24, 2009
I really want to make use of the toolstrip and databinding but these two technologies keep conflicting with each other. I think the root cause is something to with the fact that the toolstrip buttons don't recieve focus in the normal way.
I invite you to try the following:-
1. Create a form and put some text boxes a tool strip with a save button on it.
2. Write a query or sproc to get a datatable back and bind your text boxes to the field in the datatable.
3. In the code behind your Save ToolStripButton put some code that makes an arbitrary change to a field on the dataset (it doesn't matter whther this field is bound to a text box or not). eg:-
m_DataTable.Rows(0).Item("CommissionRatePerc") = "0.0000"
4. Put a breakpoint in the save and run the form.
5. Make some changes in the text boxes. Do not leave the last text box but rather click save while a text box whose contents you have edited still has focus.
6. When your code hits the breakpoint, query the value of the data table field that is bound to the text box you were editing when you clicked save - it will still contain the unedited value. Unless you do something about it that unedited value is going to get saved back to your DB.
We did get around this problem by explicetely setting the focus to another control on the form before saving. That worked most of the time because it prompts the text box to flush it's value back to the datatable (nb EndEdit does not work, although you'd have expected it to). However, and this is the reason I suggested you add a line of code that changed a value in the underlying datatable in step 3, if you change a value in code in this way before the value from the text box get's flushed back then it doesn't seem to matter what you do, the user's current edit is simply lost. They will still show in the text box, though, leading your user to believe that the change has been committed when it hasn't. Our final solution is that we never ever change a value in the adtaset in the code behind our toolstrip buttons. That's working but it's a pretty big restriction.
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Oct 5, 2011
I am running Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional on a Windows 7 system.While working on a visual basic exercise in chapter 4 of the Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step book on the MyMenu program I added a Toolstrip to my form and then I was trying to perform the add OpenFileDialog and ColorDialog controls to the component tray as described at the bottom of page 111 under Using Dialog Box Controls. I could never get the controls to appear in the component tray as instructed in the book.
I added a toolstrip to the form. According to my instructions I should be able to click on the Open file icon on the toolstrip to select it and then click anywhere else on the form. When I do that, the OpenFileDialog should appear on the component tray where I can then select it to enter code. This however does not happen.The only way I was able to get them to appear in the component tray was by opening the Menu program supplied on the DVD under chapter 4, selecting both of the above controls on the component tray, right clicking and then press copy. I then closed the Menu program and opened the MyMenu program that I created and then I was able to paste the two object controls to the component tray.
I went back to the original Menu program to see if I was able to place any other controls on the component tray by following the instructions in the book but was not able to. I also tried the same thing with MyMenu and it also still would not work.I have been unable to find anything that might explain why the component tray does not work as explained. Perhaps there is some setting somewhere that needs changed, but all searches have been unsuccessful.
PS. I have entered this on one of the other MicroSoft forums and although it has gotten multiple views I have not yet received any feedback.I also get the following error: Cannot add component of type 'ToolStripButton' to container of type 'form'.
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Aug 31, 2010
I have a class, GControl. It's pretty much a Control class clone with some improvements. It doesn't inherit from Control, because that would be a huge mess, and it needs to stay that way. However, to add a GControl to a Form in the first place, it needs to inherit from Control. So, I created a new class, called GForm, that inherits from Control and draws GControls in the OnPaint method. However, it should also inherit GControl, because it needs (1) to be able to be a GControl's Parent and (2) to be able to have a GControlCollection property. The way I've made the GControlCollection is so that it must be created with a GControl as its parent. I could change how GControlCollection works, but not the Parent property. Does anyone know a way to get around that?
Here's what the property looks like:
CODE:
And a few methods (like Invalidate()) need to be called on the control's parent.
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Jan 24, 2012
I want to add a Numericupdown to a toolstrip when a from loads, the problem is it just sticks on the end of the toolstrip. how do i get it where i want it.
if i want to do this do i have to build the whole toolstrip at run time?
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Apr 22, 2010
Toolstrips are great, but borders is so sick. How to disable border?
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Nov 5, 2011
I would put the MenuStrip VisualBasic equal to the system
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Dec 9, 2011
VS 2010 MenuStrip and ToolStrip System renderer
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Jan 15, 2012
I would put the MenuStrip VisualBasic equal to the systemfrom:o:
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Jan 7, 2012
I'm trying to make it where when I click the subitem of a toolstrip menu, I can get the text I am clicking.
For example: This is my toolstripmenu, I'm trying to make it when I can get the text of what I'm clicking like the My Subscribers, My Contacts etc.
I tried this:
Private Sub ContextMenuStrip1_ItemClicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs) Handles ContextMenuStrip1.ItemClicked
End Sub
But all this does it get the main menu item click such as Add Selected Users to New Group. The subitems are added programmatically through this.
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Jul 18, 2010
i want the user to be able to select one from the combobox but i dont want them to be able to type in there own into the actual combobox, i tried Enabled property but then you can pick one either. And i couldn't find the IsReadOnly property on the ToolStripComboBox,
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Jan 9, 2012
I want to have a DataGrid in a form Docked as Fill, and have it located below the ToolStrip.What I mean by Docked as Fill is I want to be able to resize the DataGrid along with the Window Form.When I select Dock as Bottom, the space between the DataGrid and ToolStrip changes as well.
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Oct 25, 2011
I have a favorites bar in my web browser and when I display them on a toolstrip as a toolstripbutton but the bookmarks are stored as a string collection in my.settings and It only displays the url of the bookmark (not the document title of the site)Is there a way to have a toolstripbutton that has the text of the Document Title of the url and the url as the tag of the toolstrip button?
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Apr 20, 2012
I have a project in visual basic 2010 and want to convert it to visual studio 2010 so I don't have to chose the "open with" every time. Is there a tutorial on how to do this?
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Aug 5, 2011
Does anybody know which version of Visual Studio 2010 contains the full set of Visual Basic SharePoint Templates? I am about to embark on a project to create Visual Web Parts to be used in a SharePoint report.
At the moment I am using Visual Studio 2008 and even though the WSPBuilder is installed none of the relevant SharePoint templates are present.Having searched SO and the web, most advise to install the templates via the Visual Studio command prompt: devenv /installvstemplates
Alas the Visual Studio command prompt is also missing from my VS2008 installation.So, the question remains: which version of VS2010 contains what I need for pain-free SharePoint development? There is a rather large price different between VS2010 Professional and VS2010 Premium, so can anyone tell me if the cheaper version (VS2010 Professional) contains all the Sharepoint templates?
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Nov 25, 2009
I am just wondering how I can add Direct X references to Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. I cant find them in the .NET reference list, or the reference list, or anywhere. I downloaded the Direct X SDK for August 2009, but I can not add the .dll files to the reference list. Is there anything I can do to add them? I need the references for programming reasons.
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Jan 15, 2012
I want to use "OpenGL" in my project. Is it possible to associate it with "Visual Basic" application developed in Visual Studio 2010? If yes then how can we do it.
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Mar 9, 2012
To reproduce the error I'm getting:Create a new Visual Studio 2010 ASP.NET web site in Visual Basic, targeting .NET 2.0Type "Public Property Test As String" Observe "Visual Basic 9.0 does not support auto-implemented properties." error Visual Studio 2010 is happy to use VB 10 against .NET 2.0-targeted Windows Forms applications, this only appears to be an issue with ASP.NET.Is there a way to force Visual Studio 2010 to use VB 10 when targeting .NET 2.0?
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Jul 6, 2010
have just overlooked something somewhere...I am writing VB.NET stuff in VS2010 on Windows 7 64-bit. It seems to build by default for a 32-bit target, how to I tell it to make a 64-bit executable?
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Oct 2, 2010
When trying to import CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, and CrystalDecisions.Shared. I'm getting a green line. What might be the problem?
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Jan 8, 2012
I'm new to visual basic, used it for a few months. My friend is addicted to using a program called Wpe Pro [URL].. and he wanted me to make it more advanced and able to do more stuff.if you no anything about this program please message me
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Jan 5, 2011
At present I have wrote an application (in-house CRM, vb .net 2010) which allows me to send emails under the selected customer & I categorised these emails.As these are categorised I can return data to display email history in my program by using search criteria:
Dim oMail As Outlook.MAPIFolder = oNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderSentMail)
Dim sSearch As String
sSearch = "[Categories] = '" + "[" + tAccount.Text.Trim + "]" + "(" + tShipTo.Text.Trim + ")'"
Dim oItems As Outlook.Items = oMail.Items.Restrict(sSearch)
However the limitation to the above is it only looks at sent items & no other folder.My ideal solution would be to display all email correspondence for a certain contact.
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Jun 21, 2010
Well I used the Visual Studio 2010 installer to install my application and I want it to be able to change the version displayed in the in the Add/ Remove Programs (in the Control Panel). How can I do this without going through the install wizard again?
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Feb 14, 2011
I need to write from VS 2010 vb.net dataset into a newly created xlsx file.
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Nov 6, 2011
Dont be afraid to spam the thread with things you can create.The more the better!
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