Referencing A User Control?
Mar 1, 2010
This is a project I am working on written in Visual Basic, using Visual Studio 2005.I have a form (FrmMain) which contains a user control (CtrlDisplay). Within the user control (CtrlDisplay) is a list box which pulls information from a database. when you click on a button it checks another database to see if you have all the required components to build the object in the list box. If you dont have the parts, a dialog box (DiaAddToList) opens up to ask you if you would like to add the missing parts to your next order.
I had this all working perfectly when I was using forms and a MDI parent container. Now I am using a single form which swaps out user controls. the issue I am running in to is, the dialog box has the button "Add to next order", which is supposed to start routine to add the objects to the inventory. using forms, it was easy to do this, on DiaAddToList, under the sub when you click the add button, the code was FrmDisplay.AddList()
Now that I have switched it to user controls I tried to put CtrlDisplay.AddList(), and it is telling me "Reference to a non shared member requires an object reference". How do I reference the CtrlDisplay. It is already open and running on FrmMain. I tried to use "Imports.MyProject.CtrlDisplay" and that didnt work.
how I can reference this? It is starting to look like I will have to put the list boxes and routines into FrmMain, but that will end up with something like 200 boxes on one form, all overlapping and making it REAL confusing.
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Feb 25, 2010
Dim tabnum As Integer = mycontrol.TabIndex
If My.Forms.Sessions.GroupBox1.Controls(tabnum).Enabled = True Then
mycontrol.ForeColor = Color.Red[code]....
I have checked and double checked the tab order on the controls and run traces with debug. The control found in my.forms. sessions. groupbox1 seldom returns the proper tab. Using a 'watch' I can see the tab names and the tabname (my.forms.sessions. groupbox1. controls (tabnum).name is often the incorrect one.
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Feb 25, 2011
I'm fairly new to VB.NET and I'm currently playing around with user controls, figuring out good programming practices. As far as I understand, to create and use a UserControl, I need to create a project with the UserControl in it, then build the project and use that DLL (add it to Toolbox or otherwise).My question is this: Is there a way a have a project (a Form with a bunch of things on it) that contains a UserControl written in a *.vb file inside that same Project? If you do that, the DLL (in my case) never gets produced, possibly because the UserControl is never used and building it is simply omitted. Is it perhaps a bad practice to do that altogether? It simply makes sense to me to keep a UserControl as a part of the Project that uniquely uses it. Is there a reason not to do that?
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Jan 30, 2010
I have a MS Access database set up, with a Period field that has either values 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. I retrieve these values using a database connection and I would like to reference a particular control based on what period was grabbed from the database.
Here's example code, pseudo of course.
TextBox(dr(3)).Text = dr(0)
dr(3) contains the period, and dr(0) contains the content I would like to put into the text box. I have these text boxes on my form: TextBox1, TextBox2, TextBox3, TextBox4 and TextBox5.
So if dr(3) contained 2 then I would want to reference TextBox2.
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Nov 6, 2009
I have an application going here Form1 has a panel on it named TargetPnl. I need my TargetPnl to display my user control named Vviewer when I click my SearchBtn and also need it to disappear when I click another button.
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May 13, 2009
I've created a Custom Control, and I will be placing a large number of instances of that Custom Control on my xaml page. In working with that Custom Control in the VB Code Behind, how do I do the following?
How do I reference the name of the Custom Control (in my VB code) which was clicked with the MouseLeftButtonDown event? For example, if I have 10 instances of my Custom Control in xaml, each with a different x:name (say 1-10), when a particular instance is clicked, how can I see which one was clicked? I've tried a number of things including e.OriginalSource.Name (which returns the component within the control which was clicked and not the name of the instance of the control). My Custom Control consists of numerous parts and pieces (Rectangles, Lines, Text, etc). Each of these items is a part of my layer. In VB code, once I can reference a particular Control, how can I hide or change certain parts of that control (such as hiding a Line, and changing the text). Also, I need to modify more than just the control which was clicked, so I need to be able to access properties of all of the controls, not just what was clicked. For example, if I click Control instance Test1, I also need to modify Test2, Test3, and Test5 in some way.
Here is some test code I through together as part of a Silverlight project using MS Blend 2. My control is much larger, and I need 200 - 250 instances/copies of that custom control, so I really need to know which control instance/copy was clicked.
My UserControl:
<UserControl
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
[Code].....
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Apr 11, 2009
how can i call a VB function - deleteevent() in usercontrol.ascx.vb from a javascript function in clickhandler(e) in usercontrol.ascx. The call should cause a postback because I need the usercontrol to display the changes.I am currently trying to do it by using a linkbutton with style display:none, and calling its click event from the javascript function. But i dunno how to call the click event.
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Oct 17, 2011
I have an aspx page that has two different user controls. I want to find user control A and be able to set properties, etc., from user control B.
I was thinking I could do something like this:
Dim CMFilters As Control = Me.Parent.FindControl("CMFilters")
...but that doesnt work to be able to set properties and call methods. I somehow need to get the user control and and declare it as that user control type.
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Dec 22, 2010
In a user control I have the code shown below.
I now realize that it is incorrect because the container's InitializeComponent property initializations have not run yet and they must be run prior to Refresh being called.
How (where) can I run Refreash after the container has initialized this user control.[cod]e...
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Aug 31, 2009
i am using vb.net 2005 to developed desktop application I am having two windows form user control , the first control name con.vb containing the design and code for connecting to database and getting a list of my project values in combo box.
Now the second user control report.vb which i am using to generate some reports , since the code behind is using connection to connect to various project database , so i want to get the value of
First user control into another how i can get the i have tried the below but its giving me error in run time but no error in design or code behind -
MR.MainForm.Connection1.project_combobox.SelectedV alue.ToString
Error i am getting is :
System.NullReferenceException was unhandled
Message="Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
Source="MDR"
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Mar 27, 2009
I am trying to build a tournament bracket application. In order to build the application efficiently I would like to make a user control "GameControl" that represents a game and give it attributes that represent the names of the competitors "TeamNameA" and "TeamNameB" ,an attribute "Winner" to represent which team should move on, and an attribute "NextRoundGame" that assigns another instance of the user control so that it can assign the "winner" to one of the "TeamName" attributes of the next round in the competition. If the controls were native to VB I feel like I could do it easily (I have only spent about 30 hours self teaching/tutorial following) but I can't seem to find out how to pass values to custom attributes of custom user controls through code.
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Feb 11, 2011
I am creating a form for work where managers can report when they find a customer's personal information laying around on a desk (we work at a call center where agents answer calls for a wireless cell phone provider, so we take personal information security very seriously). Anyway, I am wondering if there is a way to have a text box autofill with that manager's windows username (since they will need to be logged into their own profile to use the form).
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Jun 2, 2012
i have a windows from project and in that project i created a user control lets call itcustombutton1 now i can use that control quite easily either at design time or runtime by creating a new instance of it like
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Dec 17, 2010
Usually I would just do Form.Control.Property but that doesn't work.It just seems overly complicated with public classes, etc.Is there a more simpler way to do this? I'm ready to throw in the towel and just use a global variable at this point.I have the form containing the control I want to reference, frmGenerate which has a textbox called txtCustomerNo.From this form through a button's click event I want to show another form, frmCustomers, and have that form reference the value in txtCustomerNo.
frmCustomers.ShowDialog()
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Sep 16, 2010
I have created three user controls, which will be used on the various forms in my program. However, I need the buttons on one to call the other two.
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Dec 22, 2011
I am upgrading user control from vb6 to vb.net.In the vb6 application I am loading 3000 labels using a label control array.In vb.net I am doing same but it's taking too much time to load.In vb6 it's taking 1-2 seconds, but in vb.net it's taking 30-40 seconds for same work. Why does it take too much time in vb.net for same work?Code is given below, here Led is the label control array.
For l = 1 To 3000
Led.Load(ledCounter)
ColLed.Add(Led(ledCounter))
[code]....
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Dec 19, 2009
I am trying to use the Web Browser control in my vb .net user control. I am using VS 2008. Finally, I will be calling my assembly (.dll) from a web page. I wanted to display the usercontrol with the web browser control inside this web page. The problem is I cannot proceed since the Web browser control cannot be called from a partially trusted assembly. Using VS 2008 I have created a strong name for my class, also added the <Assembly: AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers()> to the AssemblyInfo. But still the web browser control cannot be seen in my web page. Do you how I can make my assembly fully trusted so that it can access web browser control? If you have used web browser control, can you confirm if this step is really required?!
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Feb 12, 2009
I Need Build a user control which works as a Login control using Windows Class Library or Component Template:The user control returns the user name and the password It means that the control has minimum two ReadOnly Property procedures. You let the user of your control (he/she which uses your control in his/her software) to set the background colour of the two labels. Create a Windows application to test your control.
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Feb 28, 2011
I 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.
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Jan 5, 2011
The code is listed below which hopefully illustrates what I'm trying to do:[code]....
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Feb 12, 2011
I have an asp.net usercontrol which represents a "popup" dialog. Basically, it's a wrapper for the jQuery UI dialog which can be subclassed to easily make dialogs. As part of this control, I need to inject a div into the page the control is used on, either at the very top or very bottom of the form so that when the popup is instantiated, it's parent is changed to this div. This allows "nested" popups without the child popup being trapped inside the parent popup.
The trouble is, I can't find a safe way to inject this div into the page. A usercontrol doesn't have a preinit event, so I can't do it there, and calling Page.Form.Controls.Add(...) in Init, Load or PreRender causes the standard exception "The control collection cannot be modified during DataBind, Init, Load, PreRender or Unload phases."
I thought I had found a solution by using. ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(Page, Me.GetType, UniqueID + "_Dialog_Div", containerDiv, False) which seemed to work well normally, but recently a coworker tried putting an UpdatePanel inside the dialog and now she's getting the error "The script tag registered for type 'ASP.controls_order_viewzips_ascx' and key 'ctl00$ContentBody$OViewZips_Dialog_Div' has invalid characters outside of the script tags: . Only properly formatted script tags can be registered."
How are you supposed to add controls to the pages control collection from inside a user control?
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Dec 30, 2011
If 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.
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Feb 10, 2010
i want to set the CommandTarget property of menu item to the TextControl which is written in win form or just tell me any way which can execute the command lets say cut copy paste on the control which is written in win form user control and added to xaml through WindowsFormsHost
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Jan 27, 2012
I've created a user control that is basically a Panel that contains 1 label,3 TextBoxes and a few properties that set/get some short integer values.During a form load event I display a number of these Panels.I then access the Panels name (and other panel properties) via a user-created handler for the panel's click eventHowever I would really like to access the values from the user-control's properties.
Public Sub load_Panels()
Dim pnlName As String
Dim x As Short = 69
[code].....
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Apr 23, 2012
I am using two user controls in my web application. I want to read a Label text from a user control via another user control. How can i read it?
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Jun 11, 2012
I'm developing a program with a team in Visual Basic 2010.
What i wanna do is to create a textbox (inherits from textbox) with additional one property called MDIStatusInformation which is used to display a tooltip text in a status bar at main MDI form.
When i use this tag <Browsable(True)> _, the control property not list anything there.
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Apr 29, 2010
We have a ASP.NET web application written in VB.NET where we build content programmatically during the Init event.We make extensive use of user controls, building them on the fly, and I now want to start including SilverLight content.Is there an easy way of embedding a SilverLight application in a control, and then instantiating the whole thing in code, in the same way as you'd programmatically add ordinary ASP.NET controls to a page?The SilverLight component itself works fine when added to a page using the <object> tag but I really want to be able to reuse it elsewhere in code.Since I'm expecting use of SilverLight to increase in our application, and the asp:Silverlight control seems now to be deprecated, I'm looking for an alternative way of wrapping the content.
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Apr 10, 2009
How do I inherit an existing control (user control) and add it to the ToolBox?
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Apr 2, 2012
How can i play an audio that possibly mp3 or wav without let the user to select the file by using the open dialog box. i want the audio to play when the user press a key. for example user press key 1 then audio1.mp3 will be play.
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Dec 1, 2010
I'm looping through an array of controls and need to know which controls an end-user has the ability to (via JavaScript or directly) change the value that gets posted back. Where can I find such a list?
So far I have this:
Private Function IsEditableControl(ByVal control As Control) As Boolean
Return TypeOf control Is IEditableTextControl _
OrElse TypeOf control Is ICheckBoxControl _
OrElse GetType(ListControl).IsAssignableFrom(control.GetType()) _
OrElse GetType(HiddenField).IsAssignableFrom(control.GetType())
End Function
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