Define The Base Class Of A Form At Runtime?
Apr 29, 2010
I'm developing a software that handles very specific regional standards. In one part of the country they have different standards for entering this data than they do in other parts of the country. In fact there are hundreds or thousands of possible configurations that would be best in various regions.
The solution I've come up with is to write a program that can load different control configurations with the supporting code to its main form at runtime. I do not know how to accomplish this. Would I use visual inheritance at runtime? Would I use a plugin system? I just need to potentially allow a power user to design thier own interface or to modify an existing interface to better suit thier needs.
Edit: Is there a way to define the base class of a form at runtime? Could I create user controls in a plugin and pass them in to the host program?
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Oct 1, 2008
I've been creating short test apps repeatedly to try to understand some of the concepts in VB.NET.For the most part it has been illuminating.I read Bucky's .NET knowlegebase tutorial on passing objects as parameters to newly created forms. He shows how to create a new class that inherits from the base form class and define a New() method with parameters Extending the concept I thought about doing the same thing with a form that was created at design-time (In this case Form2).
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Apr 27, 2010
I am writing a game editor, and have a lot of different "tool" objects. They all inherit from BTool and have the same constructor. I would like to dynamically populate a toolbox at runtime with buttons that correspond to these tools, and when clicked have them create an instance of that tool and set it as the current tool. Is this possible, and if so will it be better/easier than creating those buttons by hand?
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Apr 15, 2010
I have put this code in the global form Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form. And then in the form that will inherit this from the global Inherits MenuStrip. "MenuStrip" is what the global form is called. But keep getting this error: Error1Base class 'MenuStrip' specified for class 'Lesson2' cannot be different from the base class 'System.Windows.Forms.Form' of one of its other partial types.
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Aug 10, 2009
I happen to have these common procedures which I want to be used in my forms and usercontrols, with the form I can put those procedures in the base form which is being inherited but I happen to have a need to use those same procedures in my usercontrols, is there a way that I can have a common base class that I can use both for my form and usercontrol? I haven't used yet a base usercontrol since my usercontrols will not look the same so I have to put those procedures in each one of them and I find it rather cumbersome.
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Mar 12, 2010
When I do this
Public Class cInherits : Inherits Panel
I get this: Base class 'System.Windows.Forms.Panel' specified for class 'MenuButton' cannot be different from the base class 'System.Windows.Forms.UserControl' of one of its other partial types.
How do I inherit?
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Jun 4, 2011
I am making a TabStrip control to hold a number of tabs just like TabControl, but only with the tabs, no page. The control has a "Tabs Collection", which stores a list of "Tab" class. "Tab" is not inherited from Control, but each tab has its events. So when the user add a "Tab" in the "Tabs Collection", each "Tab" instance should have a (Name) identifier, which user can access it in the code, and with WithEvents keyword so users can add event handlers to each "Tab". The expected out come should similar to this:
Friend TabStrip1 As TabStrip
Friend WithEvents t1 As Tab
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Me.TabStrip1.Tabs.Add(t1)
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Jan 20, 2012
Is there a way to define a class such that there can be only a single instance of that class?
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Feb 17, 2010
I have the name of a form in a string variable, e.g. "frmOptions". I want to:
1) get the fully qualified name of the form
2) determine if the form exists in the application
3) create an instance of the form
4) show the form
I know that using reflection I can do #3 this way, but I need to get the fully qualified form name first[code]...
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Apr 22, 2012
Base class has one field to hold numeric balance value. With 2 methods that accept arguments for adding and subtracting the new input calculating new balance. Sub class has four fields dates, transaction, memo and amount.I have a deposit form, and withdraw form. Each time one transaction is entered it creates an object with sub class fields, then adds to the account collection. My problem is not understanding how to call the deposit/withdraw method and pass the current transaction amount back to the base class to alculate the new balance. Does anyone have any links to information/tutorials on how to perform something like this? As you can see with my code I have tried various different approaches without any success.
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Oct 27, 2009
I 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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Apr 7, 2011
Supose a base class
Public Class airplane
Private var_num_seats As Integer
Private var_num_engines As Integer
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Obviously, I don't wish that the class Glider has the method "start_engines" neither the property "num_engines". Otherwise, other child classes may have. How can I supress these property and method in child class, not just ignoring (if I can)?
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Apr 9, 2010
I am trying to create a class in VB.NET which inherits a base abstract class and also implements an interface. The interface declares a string property called Description. The base class contains a string property called Description. The main class inherits the base class and implements the interface. The existence of the Description property in the base class fulfills the interface requirements. This works fine in C# but causes issues in VB.NET.
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Dec 29, 2010
This is another one of my "I think it's not possible but I need confirmation" questions.I have a base class for a bunch of child classes. Right now, this base class has a few common properties the children use, like Name. The base is an abstract class (MustInherit)Technically, this means that everytime a child class is instantiated, it lugs around, in memory, its own copy of Name. The thing is, Name is going to be a fixed value for all instances of a given child. I.e., Child1.Name will return "child_object1", and Child2.Name will return "child_object2".
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Jun 10, 2011
Suppose I have piece of code like this:
Public Interface ISomething
....
End Interface
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Sep 25, 2009
I suspect I am being very silly here but I have the following setup
Class MustInherit myBaseClass
'some stuff
End Class
Class myInheritedClassA
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Running this results in the following error
Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException:
There was an error generating the XML document. --->
System.InvalidOperationException:
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is there any way of 'Widening' the inherited class to the base class so this would work?
EDIT:regarding XmlInclude(typeof inheritedClass), currently this method could potentially return a number of types of inherited class (i.e myInheritedClassA and myInheritedClassB) is it case of simply having to add each of the inheritedTypes in this tag?
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Jan 26, 2011
Yesterday I started my first DLL project which is for ArabicMessageBox that will allow arabic programmers to display there message in totally Arabic message.My project contain one Form only, and the basic code that I use is:
Public Overridable Function Show(ByVal APrompt As String) As MsgBoxResult
mLoad(APrompt, MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly, "")
Me.ShowDialog()
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Oct 22, 2010
How do I access the base class inside a derived class?
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Dec 10, 2010
If we are within the derived class then ofcource we can use MyBase keyword to access base class's object reference . That's fine , how can we take that base class's object reference outside that derived class's definition.My following code will explain what i want . Actually that is giving error right now, but it is explaining my requirement .
Public Class Base
Public x As String
End Class
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Actually there is error in ReadOnly Property BaseReference's Getter . Error is "Error 1 'MyBase' must be followed by '.' and an identifier. " how can i get base class object reference in Main method ?
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Oct 15, 2009
I need to do something like this Class A End Class Class B Inherit A End Class A=B If i try i get an exception! that i can not cast B in A. How can I overcome this problem? I need to define 2 classes B identical to A but as a distinct class What I need is to be able to cast one class to the other like A=B or B=A I tried with directcast but i got the exception what can I do
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Jul 19, 2010
[code]The reason that this is a problem is that this is a collection of EventBase objects, but I'm trying to populate it with child classes instead. For example, I might have a JumpEvent class that inherits EventBase, and this is being put into the EventBaseCollection. That means that value.GetType() returns the type of JumpEvent, which as you might guess does not equal the type of EventBase.The goal of course is to simply loop through all of the various events without having to know anything about the sub-classes. Is there a way to determine the type of the base class so that the OnValidate call will work? Or is this just the wrong way to go about it altogether?
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Jun 2, 2009
I understand that inherited classes can't be converted from base classes. But is there any way to write a conversion sub, so that the base class gets assigned to MyBase, then extra properties are added?[code]...
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May 25, 2011
below is my code to use binarywriter it work fine on class form1 level
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Jul 28, 2010
Interface Iinterface
Sub myMethod()
End Interface
class myCls implements Iinterface
End Class
i did this and i wanted to define the myMethod() within the class myCls but i am getting an error in this line:
class myCls implements Iinterface
error:end of statement required
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Apr 17, 2010
I would like to define a class as something like a constant, and use the class directly rather than having to always create an instance. Is this possible? I've tried a handful of combinations of syntax, but nothing I've tried lets me do what I'm after. To give an idea of what I'm after:
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Feb 6, 2012
I need to define a property in my class which is an array (of doubles).My original (bad) version is this:
Public Class Market
Property Correlations0 As Double
Property Correlations1 As Double
Property Correlations2 As Double
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This however doesn't work. I get an error already at design time: "Public Property Correlations as Double has no parameters and its return type cannot be indexed."What should I do with it? I also do not know in advance how large the array should be (the array size is determined at runtime based on other properties).
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Jul 12, 2011
I was just practicing some coding and noticed that I was able to use class instead of Module in VB .NET. So I replaced my module to class and I got this error message:No accessible 'Main' method with an appropriate signature was found in 'practicevb'.practicevb
I made sure that the startup object was set correctly in Properties > Application > Startup Objects.The error message disappears if I change it back to Module but I would like to keep it class since the other parts of my code I changed to class and didn't return and error messages.
Class Atic
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine("Hello, this proram will calcaulate the quadratic forumla ax^2 + bx + c")
Dim Quads As New Quads
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Oct 21, 2009
1 - Need to create a kind of composite property, like the font property, that it's showed with a plus sign to expand. For example i need to define a new pen, i need to define the color and the width... 2 - I need to define the color for one brush, but if i create a property of the type brush in the PropertyGrid it appears like "System.Drawing.SolidBrush"
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Jul 5, 2010
bare with me during this silly example. :-) Let's say I have a class like this:
Public Class Animal
Public iLegs as int32 ' Number of legs
Public bWings as Boolean ' Wings? Yes/No
End Class
And another class that inherits the "Animal" class and adds one more property:
Public Class ScaryAnimal
Inherits Animal
Public iScariness as int32 ' 0-100, how scary is it?
End Class
Now, if I have an instance of "Animal" with some values in it, and I decide I want to cast it to a ScaryAnimal for some reason, how do I do that without having to create a new instance of "ScaryAnimal" and copy each property value?Basically I'm looking for a way to do this, without having to write the lines marked with '*** below:
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Mar 12, 2011
Under Visual Basic 2010, I am trying to define a specific instance of a static method that was created as a Java class. I have a vendor supplied dll added in as a reference.[code]...
But, I can't seem to define a specific instance of this method. Using "IntegrationMethod.getIntegrationMode()"always returns a value of zero.
There doesn't appear to be any way to "setIntegrationMode" to a specific value.
The documentatoin for this Class as provided by the vendor are shown below.
When I asked the vendor for assistance, their response was: "
Our javadocs for the IntegrationMethod class show that we provide three predefined instances of the IntegrationMethod class[code]...
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