Have Multiple Selectable Options Property Listed In Properties Window?
Feb 25, 2010I have a UserControl with a property called "Type". This can have any combination of three values, say
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VS 2010 Make Class Properties With Multiple Options?
May 20, 2011I am just learning about making classes and need to make one with 2 properties.Below is the beginning of a class for ingredients in a coffee machine.But I want sugar and water to also hold name (string) ='sugar' and number(integer) = 4 so its like thisIngredients.coffee.name or ingredients.coffee.number[code]
View 3 RepliesAdd Multiple Pictureboxes To A Panel And Make Them Selectable During Runtime?
Nov 12, 2010I wonder how you can make a picturebox selectable at runtime and also change the size and location during runtime?
Well I know how i can change the location of a picture box during runtime but that is only with a picturebox that is already defined in the form before runtime.
So I write an event for that particular Picturebox.
But now i want to do the same thing with a picturebox that a user can add during runtime and then the user should be able to select and move the picturebox.
So now i can't add code to the picturebox event so I wonder how you should do this. ( Maybe with reflection?)
And what if the user added 10 picture boxes and selects a certain picturebox. How do you make it possible that the picturebox the user clicks on is selected?
Should you store each picture box location on the Panel and then when the user clicks on a certain pixel in the panel where a certain picture box is it get's selected?
VS 2010 - Select The First Field Listed On The Left Side Of The Window
Nov 5, 2010I just started using VS 2010. This product is supposed to be so much better than VS 2008 yet I'm noticing a couple of glaring things that are failures if you ask me.
1. When designing a Gridview, after having clicked on Edit Columns, in VS 2008 I could select the first field listed on the left side of the window, set a property--say headStyle-- and set the Horizontal Align to Left. Then if I clicked on the next field, that same property would still be selected on the right side of the window. In VS 2010, I have to go through finding the property and then expanding it and selecting it for each individual field. While it seems like a small thing, it's time consuming and kind of a pain. Is there some reason they couldn't have made it behave the same as in VS 2008?
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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.
View 2 RepliesExpose A UserControl's Properties To Properties Window In Designer?
Aug 19, 2009Is there a way to expose a UserControl's properties to the Properties Window in the Designer?
View 3 RepliesSet The Transparent Property Via Label Properties Properties Not Via Code?
Jan 16, 2009I'm working on a Hazardous Materials label printing program. One of the options is to do an "NFPA" label. Since there are 4 values required with 4 or 6 options, the ratings are entered via radio buttons in a group box. That's working okay. I display values in the NFPA diamond as they're entered: left quadrant blue, top quadrant red, left yellow, bottom red. I'm having trouble with the label in which the rating will be displayed on top of a jpg diamond for the white. In this quadrant the text can be up to 4 characters. I can accept the text going into an adjacent block a little, but the corners of the label overlap into another quadrant/color. I reduced the font size which solved the overlap problem but the font is then too small and looks terrible. I tried to make the background of the label transparent to let the color come through correctly but that's not a valid value for label.background. I'm figuring that the transparent background is the best solution. What can I use that will accept a transparent background so the color shows through?
I'm trying to set the transparent property via label properties properties, not via code. Here's the code if it makes any difference:
Public Class NFPA
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Close()
End Sub
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IDE :: 2008 Express: To Step Into Properties - Go To Tools -> Options -> Debugging
Apr 2, 2009I get this message whenever I'm trying to debug using VB.NET 2008 Express: Step into: Stepping over property 'ReadTnsNames.ClassTnsNames.set_Name'. To step into properties, go to Tools->Options->Debugging and uncheck 'Step over properties and operators (Managed only)'.
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How To Create Property Options
Mar 27, 2010I have created a new user control (ctlMyBox) with a bunch of labels, textboxes, and a picturebox. I learned how to add simple custom properties (strings, integers..etc) to it using the "Public Property..etc" method.
However, as an example, I also want to add a "Theme" property with only three options (Light, Dark, and Colorful). Depending on the theme chosen for the control, the colors of the different labels will change.My current (primitive) solution to this is making the Theme property as a String, like so:
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Private strTheme As String = "Colorful"
Public Property Theme() As String
Get
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This would require the user to know the exact names of the available themes. What I want is that when someone is coding to change the theme, a list of options would appear after writing ctlMyBox1.Theme = . The user would then select one of the three options, similar to when you select the checked state property of a checkbox for example. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this?
Parse These Command Line Args From Properties/Debug/Start Options?
Sep 16, 2010This illustrationshows 4lines of arguments usedforprojectis run in Debug mode.
View 3 RepliesSwitch To The New Window Not To The Main Windows Properties Window
Apr 14, 2009how to retrieve microsoft access filenames from a particular folder on my computer? Within my project the user can create a database, and i want to be able to display all of these databases in a combo box?
View 8 RepliesSwitch To The New Window Not To The Main Windows Properties Window?
Jan 23, 2012I have application with 2 forms (Form1, Form2), when i click in a button in form1, form2 open.when form2 opened & I switch to other window and try to switch back to my application (By clicking in its icon in taskbar), it switch to form1.I need when form2 open & click in taskbar, it switch to form2 & also when form2 open I can't edit or type anything in form1.Exactly the same as the below scenario in windows:when I open any new window from "Windows Properties" (Right click my computer), and switch back to windows properties, it will switch to the new window not to the main Windows properties window
View 2 RepliesSum The Properties Of Two Members Of A Collection Without Doing It Property By Property?
Aug 8, 2011I've reviewed the links that were offered and don't find an answer. Neither has a lot of searching helped, probably because I can't think of a reasonably short way to ask the question. I hope that I've at least found the proper forum and category.
In my VB 2010 code, I've defined a structure that has about 30 elements. I want to sum the properties (they are all singles) of two members of the corresponding collection. I understand that I can do something like:
member1.property1=member2.property1+member 3.property1 for the entire set of properties of member2 and member3 to produce a completely defined member1 What I wonder is whether or not there is a way that uses fewer lines of code - I know that I can't do:member1=member2+member3, for example.
Select Multiple Options And Unchecked It In Menustrip?
Sep 15, 2009Im creating a menustrip which can choose to draw the shape you want, and the colour you want to fill in the shape.For the colour part, I manage to choose multiple colour options. Example : If i checked red and blue colour, the shape of the colour would be purple. But when I want to uncheck the red color or blue color, it does not work.
Public Class Form2
Private Sub ExitToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ExitToolStripMenuItem.Click
Me.Close()
End Sub
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Multiple Versions. Free - Options - Able To Convert Vb6 Applications
Jun 5, 2012I am a vb6 enthusiast willing to try NET. I am confused by all the versions and the fact that limitations of the 'free' version are not spelt out. My requirement is to be able to convert vb6 applications (possibly, but don't mind a manual rewrite), to write applications (not for tablets or phones yet) that I can use myself and possibly publish to others. I would like to allow printed reports for my financial applications. I will have a small home network up soon but ability to operate on a network is not critical. I do NOT want to download a 'free' version and find that it is crippled one way or another, like allowing development but not publication.
Whether the 'free download' is OK, and which one (Express?), or point to a site where the versions are clearly laid out.
VS 2010 Options View Control - Child Options?
Aug 20, 2011I am in need of a form that shows various options, exactly like the Options in Visual Studio. Since there are so many options I too want them categorized, with a TreeView to the left taking care of showing the right category.The usual 'easy' approach here would be to just place a TreeView control on the form, add some nodes, and give those nodes a tag or key that corresponds to a panel or UserControl with the options for that category.Since there will be a lot of options however, this is not really feasible design-wise; the form would be cluttered with possibly 50 panels, all of which I would need to select and bring to front from time to time to add controls to them that represent the options.
So I decided to create a custom control that does exactly that. The control is very similar to my Wizard usercontrol, users can add OptionsPanels at design time, which inherit Panel and simply represent one panel of options. When they do, the panel is added to a container panel, and at the same time a TreeNode is added to a TreeView. The control uses a custom ControlDesigner to handle design-time clicks in the Treeview, selecting a different node would select and bring to front the corresponding panel, allowing the user to add the controls he wants.
Due to the design time support the problem of having 50 panels is no longer present, only one panel will be visible at a time and selecting the right panel is as simple as selecting the corresponding TreeNode, just as during run-time. Anyway, I got all this working, but only for a single 'level' of categories. As you can see in the Visual Studio options, there can be multiple levels of categories. For example, the Environment node has a bunch of children, where each child represents one 'options panel'. There can even be deeper nesting, see the Text Editor node for example.Let me begin by drawing out the basics of how my control works so far.
The main control is an OptionsView control, which contains a SplitContainer with a TreeView to the left and a OptionsPanelContainer to the right. The OptionsPanelContainer is merely a Panel to which only OptionsPanel controls can be added, and which raises events when this happens, as well as when OptionsPanels are removed from it. An OptionsPanel also inherits Panel, and these are the actual panels the users will see in the control, one for each option category.For now, each OptionsPanel has exactly one corresponding TreeNode (and vice versa). In the Visual Studio options, each 'parent' category usually has a 'General' node as the first child, and the parent and this General node show the same option panel, but I am ignoring that for the moment.
The OptionsView control has a property Panels that returns the ControlCollection (Controls property) of the OptionsPanelContainer (in other words: it returns a collection of OptionsPanels that are in this container panel).
vb.net
<Editor(GetType(Designers.OptionsPanelCollectionEditor), GetType(UITypeEditor))> _ <DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)> _ Public ReadOnly Property Panels As Control.ControlCollection Get Return Me.PanelContainer.Controls End Get End Property
A custom CollectionEditor for this property takes care of the designer: even though the property type is ControlCollection, the CollectionEditor knows it should create instances of the OptionsPanel control instead of just Controls.When it does this, a corresponding TreeNode is also created and its Tag property is set to the OptionsPanel. Vice versa, the Node property of the OptionsPanel is set to the node. Hence the node and panel both know their corresponding object.
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Public Class OptionsPanelCollectionEditor Inherits System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor Public Sub New(type As Type) MyBase.New(type) End Sub Protected Overrides Function CreateCollectionItemType() As System.Type
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So far so good, this all works fine. I can add Panels via the designer and when I do a new TreeNode appears in the TreeView. I can select this node and the panel becomes visible (comes to the front).Now, I am a little stuck. How do I implement child option panels? And more importantly: how do I let the user add child panels?The most logical choice I think is to let each OptionsPanel have a property (ChildPanels or something) that returns the child OptionsPanels for that panel. Once the user selects an OptionsPanel then, he can look in the property grid to find its ChildPanels property and add child panels to that.
There is a problem though: what would this property return? It must return a ControlCollection of some container (this is, I think, a requirement for the designer features to work, otherwise panels are not added to the Form.Designer.vb file). But there is no container. I cannot add them to the OptionsPanel itself, that would make no sense because the parent OptionsPanel has its own set of controls (the options itself...), there cannot be another (fully docked) Panel on top of those obviously.The container of the main OptionsView then? That is not an option either, its Controls collection holds ALL OptionsPanels, not just the children of the selected panel. I cannot 'select' only the right panels either, that would require me to return a new instance of ControlCollection, it would be impossible to return the actual ControlsCollection that holds merely a small selection of its controls.
Get Data From Properties Window?
Jul 29, 2010When you make a label, you can change the text of it in the properties window; or through the code; label1.text = "sometext".how can a get the data i entered in the properties window?something like this:
label2.text = label1.text.propertieswindows
How To Setup Properties Window
Feb 6, 2012I am new to Visual Basic using Express 2010 software. Not understanding something very basic. Working from a book. On form1 I have two check boxs set up they are Check Box1 & 2. And also one Picture Box. I am trying to set up properites window for these objects in the form.
Object Propterty
Setting
CheckBox1 Checked Text True Calculator
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The end product form 1 I should see a Calculator (Check Box 1) with the a place for a check mark and another box for a Copy Machine (Check Box 2) that also as a space for a checked off. Then a image appearing in the Picture Box. how to arrange these 3 objects in Properites Window getting them onto the form; being very basically illustrated. First time at Properties Window.
Create Property "As [ClassNameHere]" Disabled In Property Window
Sep 13, 2011I am trying to create a property which is as a class, which contains other certant properties you can edit, i.e:
Public Class exampleClass
Dim _var1 As String
Dim _var2 As Integer
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Properties - Object Property?
Feb 15, 2012I'm a C# coder, and I have trouble even reading VB.NET, so please forgive what may turn out to be an incredibly dumb question. But I have some code which looks like this:
CODE:
So, ignoring the fact that the syntax is probably wrong - how does VB.NET get the Name property from sourceObject? Inspecting it at run-time reveals that sourceObject is of a type that supports a property called Name with a getter, but what does VB.NET do in this case? Is there some extra code that is being generated by the compiler to somehow cast this automagically at run-time?
Use Reflection To Get A Properties Property?
Oct 6, 2010I am trying to get the value of local path by doing the following[code]...
View 1 RepliesAccessing Properties On A Window Service?
Aug 30, 2009If I have a custom windows service running on a server, is there anyway I can access the value of a property/variable within that service? For example, I would like to have a client vb program be able to "read" the value some variable from that service. A simple example would be the service would capture a boolean value of the success or failure of the last time it kicked off a process. I would then like to have a client windows app "connect" with the service and be able to read that boolean value.
View 3 RepliesGet/Set Properties Of Another Process Main Window?
Mar 18, 2012I have 3 questions: How to get the process which the main window is active How to change the WindowState of that process main window How to resize the process main window[URl]..
View 9 RepliesIDE :: Keep The Size Of The Properties Window Across Sessions?
Apr 10, 2009When I start working on a Project I like to change the size of the Properties Window. (I like to make it taller than it is by default). But each time I start a new Project the Properties Window goes back to the original shape/location. Is there a way that I can customize the layout of that window so that the shape is retained across sessions?
View 6 RepliesList - Properties Window For A Control ?
Jun 16, 2010Using Visual Basic 2008 when (in the past) I looked at the properties window for a control, the very bottom of the list of properties has a brief explanation of the specific property selected.
This has disappeared and I can not find any way to get it back. I tried the Tools/Options menu with no success.
Manage Another Program Window Properties?
Dec 19, 2010I'm trying to findout a way to manage another program windows programaticly. Such as enable/disable minimize/maximize buttons and whole border frame itself. Also i'm trying to prevent or disable showing that program on taskbar.
I'm trying to write a program wich culd run several other and grind them on screen without border frames or/and without buttons.
Set The Tab Index In The Properties Window To Be In Sequence
Jan 5, 2011I added a combo box to my form and set the tab index in the properties window to be in sequence. The focus doesn't stop there upon tabbing through the form. What is wrong? I checked and rechecked my tab index.
View 14 RepliesProperties Statement Used For Declaring Name Of A Property
Jun 28, 2009i have read on the msdn and know properties statement used for declaring the name of a property, and the property procedures used to store and retrieve the value of the property.i learned about structure of it. but i cant figure out it clearly. [code]
View 3 RepliesAccess To Window Properties Knowing Its Handle
Oct 10, 2009I made a program that is started and running in memory and minimized to the system tray.
When it is first launched it registers global hot keys in windows.These hot keys are used for resizing the current focused window. I'm trying to use it so you can hotkey windows to resize to half the screen, a third of the screen, etc... For instance, if I have two notepads open and notepad 1 is focused and I hit Ctrl+Shift+LeftArrow it will resize notepad1 to the left and half the size of the screen. I have notepad 2 focused and Hit Ctrl+Shift+RightArrow and resize notepad2 to the right side of the screen. So, I can easily see both windows at once.Now, I can successfully get the focused window handle when the hot key is pressed. I'm stuck at this point.
I can use the Windows API call:
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Missing Color Palette On Properties Window
May 26, 2011I am programming a VB windows form using visual studio 2008. In my properties window, i use to have color palette on every color function for example under BackColor, when i click on the component, all i get are text of the colors, without a sample picture[code]...
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