adding the properties of a control to its parent? Without having to rewrite all the properties... For example, if I have an user control with a button inside, and I want to have the "text align" property of the button, in the list of properties of the usercontrol. If not, is there a way of making the child control of an usercontrol editable?
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I have a .aspx page that loads three separate .ascx controls to represent adding, editing and listing objects. It currently simply swaps out visibility and enables/disables the controls to switch between pages.However, when listing objects (in a gridview), we offer the basic "Edit" button beside each one. Clicking on this will, obviously, load up the edit control for that user. This functionality exists inside of the control, rather than the parent page. Is it possible to modify attributes for the parent based on events occurring in a child control? (For example, change the visibility and enable/disable the other children controls)
View 3 Repliesi frequently have troubles with the dock property. it seems that either the order of creation or adding to the parent control determines whether or not a control's dock property supersedes another's. e.g. a control with the dockstyle fill will overlap with another docked control on the same parent. does anyone know what the rules are to determine how docking will behave; particularly in dynamically created GUIs?
View 2 RepliesI have my own class of graphic objects, and now I'd like to allow a user to right-click on one of those within the application and see a properties window. Is there a pre-built dialog or control for displaying properties at runtime? I'd like to have something just like the IDE properties window button for my application.
View 4 RepliesIs there any way to add new properties to a control? For example, I'm using an "OvalShape" from Microsoft's Powerpacks, these are designated as "Cells". I would like to add properties to the class itself (if I had a physical class to edit) for different processes such as "energy level", "family number", "mutation", etc. General variables that are either Boolean, Integers, or etc. If there isn't a way to edit the powerpack class itself, is there a way I can use the ovalshape power pack in my own class and add extra properties to it myself?
View 3 RepliesI would like to know if there is some simple code to release a child control from it's parent control, without having to name the parent control. In pseudocode, I'm looking for something like this:
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I'm making a control and I am trying to finalize my design time properties grid. I have several List(of Class) items as public properties and when I click on the design time menu (while testing the control) there is the word "Collection" and a button with an ellipsis (...) that brings up a neat pop up with the buttons Add/remove and all of the public properties of the collection's class on the right hand side. Basically for a non-collection instance of a class (with public properties) I'd like a similar button to show up. I know I could put all of the properties in the main control class and group them, but I like the pop up box feature. Anyway to duplicate this? (think font grid item etc.)
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to make a program with transparent labels over pictureboxes and when I set the label Parent to the PictureBox the position of the label changes.
View 2 RepliesIf I need access to the value of a user control's property BEFORE PreRender, would I need to base the custom control off of one of the preexisting data controls (repeater, listview,etc.)?One of my user controls features a gridview control that is configured based on the user control's properties on which it resides. Several of the key properties alter the SQL Statement for the underlying recordsource. I'm now in a situation where the property that sets the WHERE statement for the SQL Statement needs to tied to a value in the user control's parent FormView. Think of the formview as displaying a customer detail record. The user control takes the customer's account number and then displays data from a related table such as Customer Contact Names. Since the gridview is created before the control's prerender event, working within the prerender event doesn't seem efficient.
View 1 RepliesI was asked to create a program that inserts records into one parent table and multiple child tables. My question is, how do I know what the PK is for the parent table, so that I may add it as a FK in the child? The PK for the parent is an auto number. As I stated in my title, I'm using VB.net, mySQL, through an ODBC connection. I have to do this through the code and cannot use stored procedures.
my transaction looks like this:
Dim cmdText As String = "INSERT INTO candidate(first_name, last_name, phone1, phone2, email1, city, " _
& " state, country, zip,primary_contact_id ) VALUES (?,?, ?, ?,?,?, ?,?,?,?)"
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I have a question about using writeXml. When I use this method, it writes to the specified xml file like this:
<safety><Incident>
<Name>Jason</Name>
<AGE>23</AGE>
</Incident>
<Incident>
<Name>Frank</Name>
<AGE>25</AGE>
</Incident></safety>
But, I would like to add these nodes to a parent node, i.e.:
<safety><SomeNode><Incident>
<Name>Jason</Name>
<AGE>23</AGE>
</Incident>
<Incident>
<Name>Frank</Name>
<AGE>25</AGE>
</Incident></someNode></safety>
I am creating the xml by first creating a dataset (connects to an SQL db and runs a query, filling the dataset) and using ds.WriteXML(myPath)
I am using Visual Basic .Net 2005 professional.From what I understand, I should be disposing of any object that is an unmanaged resource. I understand the best way to tell if a resource is unmanaged is if it has a Dispose method. ie: If I type a dot after my object, intellisense shows .Dispose() as one of the options. If it does, it's an unmanaged resource. Is that correct? In that case, pretty much every control is an unmanaged resource: buttons, forms, panels, etc.In the application I am working on I use an MDIparent container form, which contains MDI children forms, which themselves contain Panels, Menus, Groupboxes, etc, which in turn contain Buttons, Textboxes, Labels, Dropdowns, etc.Do I have to dispose of each button, textbox, label and dropdown within a panel before disposing of the panel?
Do I have to dispose of each panel, menu, and groupbox before disposing of the MDI child form?.Or can I just call the Dispose() method of the MDIchild form and the GarbageCollector will take care of all the controls and resources within the form?Watching the "mem usage" in Windows Task Manager seems to be an unreliable way to detect if I have a memory leak. The numbers just keep climbing and falling (mostly climbing) erratically and without any activity performed on the application. Is there some (relatively) easy way to detect leaks?
I am not sure I am getting the concept of referencing nodes in a treeview. When I hard-code nodes like:
tnParentNode = New TreeNode("ABC")
tvReports.Nodes.Add(tnParentNode)
tnParentNode = New TreeNode("Some Other Company")
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I get two parent nodes and one child off Some Other Company. However, when I pull information from a couple of tables to set up the parent and then the child nodes, I only get the parent nodes.So I pull the main parent nodes from one table and the child nodes from another table.This code pulls the parent nodes without any problem:
strSQLText = "SELECT lID, sCatName FROM Category ORDER BY iSortOrder DESC"
reader = GetReader(strSQLText)
While reader.Read
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But this does not add the child nodes. I am assuming it is because of the first line in the above reader.read while loop. I must not be referencing the proper parent node but I am not sure how to do it.
I have a UserControl named DataGridViewFilterAndSorter that I built using a SplitContainer. In each Panel of the SplitContainer contains a FlowLayoutPanel and in each FlowLayoutPanel contains a LinkLabel.
I have a procedure that accepts a reference to one of the FlowLayoutPanels in the UserControl. I want to get a reference to the UserControl (DataGridViewFilterAndSorter) using the FlowLayoutPanel reference. Currently, I have to use this[code]...
i need a solution to drag and drop a child control with in the bounds of a parent control means i had a panel with 300*300 pixels and i had to drag and drop a textbox within the panel how
View 1 RepliesWhat 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.
I created this custom listbox, and I want to change the border of the focus rectangle, so I made up this property:
vb.net
Private H_BorderColor As Pen = Pens.Black
Public Shadows Property HighlightedBorderColor() As Pen
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But when I'm at the designer tab that property is editable, I attached a screen shot of the properties box.
I would like to be able to set Control visual properties such as color, boarder, flat style, etc. on the base class of the control so that as I add new instances of the control, each instance inherits the visual properties of the base. I have tried using Application Settings but it appears as though I need to reference an application setting manually each time I add the control to a form. This is a Windows Form question.
View 4 RepliesI tried it and get an error but maybe I'm tring the wrong way. Can a usercontrol inherate an application defined class ie.. could you inheritance a classic rect class into a user control to add the hight and width properties to the control without having to do all the coding all over again? Currently I just declair a private instance of the class within the control and then encapsalate. It would be nice if I could just inherit all the functionality of my classes into controls designed to implament the classes.
View 1 RepliesCan we add a user defined property to a textbox (NOT TO A TEXTBOX CLASS)?
e.g. MyTextBox.MyProerty = "GOOD"
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
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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.
I have an enum that I want to give some methods. I thought about changing the enum to a structure so I could add properties, but then the enum is a value inside the structure (not the structure itself), so this would affect comparisons and such. (For example, instead of writing
EnumVariable=EnumConstant,
Now it is
StructureVariable.EnumValue=EnumConstant).
At least, this is my understanding of it. It seems awkward to have to do this for such a simple scenario, so is it possible give enums properties, yet still have them treated as before? I've thought maybe I need to create a new valuetype from scratch, but I've never done that before.
Im always using this code(Example):Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load ToolStrip1.Parent = PictureBox1 End Sub To set the Parent Property of an Object. How can i change it from the "Properties Window"? Just to save 3 line of code.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to add shape per user's selection...
if (chosen circle)
use microsoft powerpack ovalshape and all its properties
if (chosen rectangle)
use microsoft powerpack rectangleshape and all its properties
I have installed the Visual Basic PowerPacks V2.0. How do I add this powerpack component to my VB2005 code to use oval or rectangle shape properties?
I am working with an image tagger system. I am done reading the file's properties. Then when I go to code for keywords.. an error exist saying that Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {58968145-CF05-4341-995F-2EE093F6ABA3} failed due to the following error: 80040154.
I Already added the DSO file.dll and the class library Imports System.IO
An error exist in the Bold text below.
Dim oSummProps As DSOFile.SummaryProperties
Dim strTmp As String = String.Empty
<strong>Dim oDocument As New DSOFile.OleDocumentPropertiesClass()</strong>
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I am trying to add some style properties to a column but the code I am currently using doesnt seem to work at all?
Dim oApp As New Excel.Application
Dim oWB As Excel.Workbook = oApp.Workbooks.Add()
Dim oWS As Excel.Worksheet = CType(oWB.Worksheets(1), Excel.Worksheet)
Dim style As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Style
style = oWB.Styles.Add("Style1")
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It's still the same as "default" would look when just opening up excel for the first time.
i was designed a form with more controls now i want to moved a [textbox] control into Panel1 but this control has already placed in Panel2. So i want to move this textbox Panel2 to Panel1 how can i do this i don't want to create new Instance.
View 1 RepliesI put a button in my MDI Parent Form and then when I call my form inside the MDI form, the button is always on top of my Form1.
myForm= New Form1(idNumber)
myForm.MdiParent = Me
myForm.Show()
I'm making a custom control that can be dragged around and it is semi transparent. I need it so that while it is moving (the mousemove event) that if it intersects a control that its parent becomes that control. I tried to have it iterate through all the controls and if control.bounds.intersectswith me.clientrectangle then me.parent = control type thing, but it did not work.
View 1 RepliesI'm creating an app for school to mark targets that we shoot in shooting competitions. Now I have created a dll in C# to do the marking bit and it works.Now the problem I am facing is that my app gets a image from the scanner (A4 size @ 600 dpi) and putting it in a picture box.There will always be 20 targets to be marked per image( However I want this to be able to vary to provide flexibility) My dll accepts a image that contains a single target so I need 20 individual images of targets.Create Drag able Rectangles in the picture box and crop the images from there . There are 2 ways of accomplishing this.
#1 Create a Control and set it's parent to the picturebox. (This should provide a location relative to the picturebox Right ?)
#2 Use only GDI (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew)
so my choice would be to create a control except I have never created any control from scratch and I have no idea how to do the visual drawing part of a control.
