C# - Manually Activate/Deactivate SnapLines For Custom Controls?

Apr 21, 2011

I am already overriding the SnapLines property in my ControlDesigner-derived class to manually forward out various snaplines from the child controls of my control -- the text baseline (pink) snap from the labels and comboboxes; the text inset snap from the labels; the top, bottom, left and right snaplines from the comboboxes. Those snaplines activate when the control itself is moved around on the form and when other controls are moved around it.

What I need is the ability to tell the designer to activate the snaplines and then deactivate them while I'm doing an internal move or resize of the underlying controls.My comboboxes are resizable through overrides of OnMouseDragBegin, OnMouseDragMove, and OnMouseDragEnd in my control designer. The magic bullet I'm looking for is something I can call in Begin to tell the designer to show the snaplines and something in End to tell it to stop.

Allowing people to resize and move the internal controls at design time is kind of useless if they don't show snaplines for each other or for external controls.As with stuff like this, it's incredibly hard to search for. I've found one post on a forum where someone asked this exact question that had (of course) no responses. That's about it.

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Activate() Not Working In Deactivate Event?

Jul 23, 2010

We have a VB 2 VB.Net migration MDI application , we have a messagebox in Deactivate event ,once you click Ok for Message Box ,the focus must be set on to the Child Form which is active.

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Registry Permission - Activate / Deactivate The Optical Reader At Startup

Feb 29, 2012

I'm quite new to vb.net and I was trying to develope something that can activate/deactivate the Optical reader at startup, so I wrote:

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but obviously it's not that simple, I read I need registry permission not to have access denied to the specified key, I imported the system.security.permission namespace and I tried some constructors but without any results...anyone can point me to the right procedure?

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.Net Form Activate/Deactivate Event Firing Issue After Removing A TabPage From TabControl?

Nov 28, 2011

I've recently run into an unexplainable issue regarding a windows form application I am working on. I've managed to isolate the issue to a single line of code whereby a single TabPage is removed from a TabControl, leaving no tabs left in the TabControl's collection. What happens next is a bit mystifying: my application proceeds to enter a state in which the main form's Activate event is fired subsequently followed by its Deactivate event. As a result, no matter where I click on the form, the application will activate for a split-second then immediately deactivate itself, thereby causing me to be unable to interact with any other GUI controls on the form. I thought maybe another thread is trying to interact with the deleted tab object, but the tab is created and destroyed on the same main gui thread. Does anyone have any insight that may point me in at least a new direction? Stepping through the debugger to the point in code where the tab is removed does not cause any exception to get thrown, so at first glance there doesn't appear to be any coding issues going on (although I would not be surprised that is actually the case!).

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Iterate The Parents Hidden Controls Names, Get Their Handles And Then Activate Them One By One?

Aug 24, 2010

I have an application and Spy++ reports that the parent window has many controls that are hidden. When I do a mouse click on the application's window, a number appears and I suppose it's the hidden controls that change their text/picture.So, is there a way to iterate the parents hidden controls names, get their handles and then activate them one by one (with sendmessage/postmessage wm_buttonclick) to see what changes?Right now I get the windows handle with FindWindow and the window's process id.

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VS 2005 - Custom Control - Affect Records That Were Manually Changed

Jul 19, 2009

i created a custom control that accepts only datetime values. [url] but i'm having some issues with it when it is bound to a column and then i navigate through records. it seems to trigger a row-change to all navigated records even though i haven't manually change anything on these records.

this is affecting the last_update_date and last_updated_by fields of my tables. i need to only affect records that were manually changed. can anyone help me? also, any date field should be bound to the Value property of this control instead of Text. haven't figured out how to remove the Text from bindable properties yet.

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Getting Button Events From Multiple Manually Instantiated Controls

Aug 30, 2011

I have created a simple custom control - we will call it a "panel with buttons". Here is how I instantiate it:

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So what I wind up with are multiple instances of my panel. Each of these panels has a button on it called Button1.
My question is - how do I capture this button event in a way that I will know which panel index it came from?

In the custom control there is only the Button1_click event - and when I click on it in any of the multiple panels I manually instantiated the event does occur, but how I can tell which one of my instantiated buttons were clicked...

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Custom Tab Controls In .net?

Mar 27, 2010

i want to control my tab pages with custom buttons...now i want to hide my tabs from tab controls...

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How To Add Custom Controls

Aug 1, 2010

I want to know how to add custom controls to vb.net.

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.NET For Each Exception On Custom Controls?

Dec 9, 2011

in VB.NET i have 2 custom controls, one is a TextBox and second one is a ComboBox.These have custom values like Bool _IsHidden and are added on runtime to a form.Now, at some point in the code I want to check if the _IsHidden is set to True or False and display that information. Since the user can edit this values when creating the control these are not set on creation.

So what I tried is:(all of this is on MDI Forms)

For Each frm as CustomForm in Main.MdiChildren If frm.MyName = calledBy Then 'this part is just to know which form called the form to create the object For Each cntrl as CustomTextBox in frm.Controls'DO Something
Next End if Next

Now.. if the first control is a custom ComboBox it thorws an error since it sees that it does not match the custom TextBox control..how do i get around this? By my understanding it should just go through all of the controls on the said form and just check those who match CustomTextBox control ?

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Arguments For Custom Controls?

Nov 24, 2011

I've created custom buttons in a .dll and they work fine, so I thought I'd have a go at creating my own sort of listbox to replace the standard one in my applications. It's basically a panel with a few labels and a button (eliminating the need to select an item in standard listbox then click a seperate button). I want to add these panels to a panel on a form, at run-time, based on rows in a db.

If I try adding any arguments in the New() section of the class file it won't let me use the panel in my toolbox. Is there a way to pass arguments to custom controls, I need a new custom panel for each row in a db so need to pass an id to it to specify records; or even load the records in my application and create a new panel for each record, using info passed to it to fill in the labels on it. Or can I create the panel at run-time and refer to labels within the custom controls, setting their .text properties that way?

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How To Create Custom UI / Controls

Mar 19, 2011

I would like to expand my knowledge of VB.NET and was looking at creating custom user interfaces or custom controls. The type of things I am thinking of is: [URL]s. How are those controls created? I imagine it involves using the existing controls in Visual Studio as a starting point, and altering them to suit your design?

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Resizing And Custom Controls?

Dec 10, 2010

I'm not going to post my code for my transparentlistbox class, but here is a link to it.It's been working fine as is, until early this morning when I tried to set a different size.[URl]..For the longest time I placed a normal listbox control on a form and resized that, setting a new public variable of transparentlistbox to the same size/location as the original listbox, setting the visibility of the original to false, and adding the transparentlistbox to the form (me.controls.add).It looked like this:

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Now, since I've moved some buttons around on my main form, I resized the original listbox control to be wider (same height though). When I tested, the transparentlistbox (code didn't change still set to original listbox size/location), the size was that of what I had the original listbox set to, before resizing?

So, I commented out all of the custom drawing/paint events/etc I could find for the transparentlistbox and tested, still stuck to the original size. I stepped line by line debugging and verified that transparentlistbox1.size=listbox1.size indeed matched the new resized size (but didn't actually resize)?

Last I did was comment out the transparentlistbox.visible and put back the listbox1.visible and listbox1 does indeed show with the new resized size? I'm not quite sure what to test next?

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Use SVG In .net To Draw Custom Controls?

Nov 3, 2009

Is there a way to use SVG in vb.net to draw custom controls? Or any other way?

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Adding Controls To A Custom Control

Jun 19, 2012

Is it possible to have a custom control (inherits from Control) and add sub-controls to it (like, a label for example)? Basically I want a composite control. I know controls can contain other controls, but if I try to add a control to MyBase.Controls, this doesn't work because that's readonly.

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Create Custom Controls For Apps?

Oct 14, 2011

i need to create custom controls for my apps so how can I do that? Do I need a special software to do that?

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Custom Controls - .net Inherits 2 Classes?

Jan 16, 2012

inherit from two classes in VB.net?We are developing Custom User Controls that inherits from say System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label. We are planning on implementing a bunch of these controls but they will share mostly the same additional properties. We are hopeful about centralising these properties.I have looked into interfaces but it seems they only 'contract' properties you need to implement.

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Custom Controls Disposing & Memory?

Apr 14, 2010

I've been working on a few large custom controls, and I noticed that when I use them, my memory starts ballooning. If I add a control at runtime, it increases the memory, but when I remove the control, it decreases less than it increased. However, it would stop balooning at some higher value. So if go back in forth between pages (which adds and removes the control), the memory would look something like this:

1,000K|5,000K|4,000K|9,000K|8,000K... 20,000K|25,000K|21,000K|25,000K|21,000K|25,000K... etc I know it takes a while for the GC to run, but the memory would stay consistantly high for long periods of time.

I tried writing a Closing routine, where when I called it, the control looped trhough its children and disposed all the internal controls, which seemed to help a little, but the memory after running the control and disposing was still much higher than before running the control. I also use custom event addhandlers. Should I remove all these as well. It would be nice if I received a little guidance on this.

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Get A Primer On Creating Custom Controls?

Dec 2, 2009

I am new to VB 2008 having spent most of my time in 2003. What is the recommendation for the best place to get a primer on creating custom controls in VB.NET. I prefer to use VB directly and not the WPF.

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Handling Focus With Custom Controls?

Nov 3, 2011

I have a custom control I'm creating. When I click on it, it draws a dotted border and puts some nubs on it for resizing. This all works perfectly. Now I want it so when I click off of it, it deselects. I already have a variable to set up if it's selected or not and subs to draw/clear it. I just have to be able to detect when something else is selected or it gets clicked off of.

What I've Tried

My first and best solution to this was to use the LostFocus event, but, by custom control apparently won't let it fire. After some research, as far as I know, custom controls don't have Focus events because they are custom and could be changed (basically, you have to implement the focus events yourself).

My Question

Does anybody have a solution to either implement the focus events or a way to handle off clicking for custom controls?

Sources

Here is my controls current source:

Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D
Public Class wDOMElement
Inherits Control

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How To Declare The Custom User Controls

May 12, 2010

I am getting this annoying warning message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." all the time because I created several custom user controls and drag it to a Windows form in a vb.net Windows application. I am using vs 2005 and dot.net framework v 2.0. This message pop up when I try to save the projector when I try to debug it in the Design mode.

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Inherit From Custom Controls VS 2008

Nov 16, 2009

Is this possible? Must be surely but I've tried and come up short. I've created a very basic class (person) with 2 public properties, forename, surname. My user control is databound to this class and has 2 textboxes to store the properties.

I've built the control and can add the user control to a windows form but how can I add to a new user control (Staff) which will show my 2 existing textboxes and I can add dateJoined datepicker also??

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Looping Through Custom Controls On A Form?

Dec 4, 2009

I have created a customised checkbox control (only the text and border appearance has been modified), and wanted to loop through them in a User quizto see which have been checked and are correct. I have used the Tag property (set to 1 or 0) to identify incorrect answers, and tried to loop through with the following code:For Each thing As GMAW.MyCheckBox In currentParent.ActiveMdiChild.Controls

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Make Custom Controls Available To All Projects?

Aug 6, 2009

I have some custom controls in a specific project. I want to make these controls available to ALL my projects. How do I do this?

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VS 2008 Custom Controls In Toolbox?

Jun 23, 2010

I got a third party control from a website after googling.Inorder to use that control, I simply right-clicked the Toolbox and selected "Choose Item". Then Browse to that dll file location and selected that file.Now it is added to the toolbox. But do I have to register the dll now ? Or, will it work when I distribute my app ?

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VS 2010 Creating Custom Controls?

Aug 23, 2010

I got this whole thing pretty well down (it's actually quite easy), but I've seen custom controls created where you can click that little arrow on the top-right corner and add things or change things about it.

How exactly is this done? I'd Google it (which is why you don't see me post here too often) but I really don't know how to describe it.

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What Is The Best Reference Material On WPF Custom Controls

Aug 24, 2009

I currently do all development work in VB.NET 2008, winforms; but within 18 months will be switching to WPF (for better or worse). I have had great success using Matthew MacDonald's "Pro NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in VB 2005" book. This is an excellent reference focused entirely on the development of custom controls in windows forms. ( Many of the controls that I use have to have a very specific UI look and feel, so they end up being custom.

I'm looking for pretty much the exact same thing, except focused on WPF. MacDonald has a new book coming out on WPF in general ,but not on custom controls. Books are my preferred reference material, but any good web references.

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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

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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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[2008] Custom Window Controls?

Feb 27, 2009

I need to know how to make Custom Windows Controls?

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Deactivate Fires On Me.Show?

Jan 25, 2010

I am trying to create a winform that will allow me to close when the form either loses focus or deavtivate. When I do Me.Show, it will call the deactivate? Is that right or is weird? The way took it was it fires when it either looses focus or is no longer the active form.

Also it seem like I have to click the form in order for it to work right. I tried Me.focus and that does work the way I expected.

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