I have several textbox which have a different background color and font
type/size as the default textbox. How do I change the default background and
font size so that I do not need to change each individual textbox property?
Can someone share with me the steps in achieving this? I'm using Visual
studio 2008 and new to c#

Here is a starter idea since no one else has answered yet:
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forum...d-textbox.html

See CSS Properties Window on this page:
http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/38741/1763/page/4

StyleSheets and Themes are words to search for. If you have a good ASP.NET
book, then look those topics up.

Good luck.


"newbies" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have several textbox which have a different background color and font
> type/size as the default textbox. How do I change the default background
> and
> font size so that I do not need to change each individual textbox
> property?
> Can someone share with me the steps in achieving this? I'm using Visual
> studio 2008 and new to c#

Oops! I thought I was in the ASP.NET newsgroup when I posted that.


"Reece" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:uXOMl.10015$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> Here is a starter idea since no one else has answered yet:
> http://www.velocityreviews.com/forum...d-textbox.html
>
> See CSS Properties Window on this page:
> http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/38741/1763/page/4
>
> StyleSheets and Themes are words to search for. If you have a good
> ASP.NET book, then look those topics up.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> "newbies" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6A3066E7-5B09-453F-858B-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I have several textbox which have a different background color and font
>> type/size as the default textbox. How do I change the default background
>> and
>> font size so that I do not need to change each individual textbox
>> property?
>> Can someone share with me the steps in achieving this? I'm using Visual
>> studio 2008 and new to c#
>
>

yes it is for windows form application and I am not using wpf.
Anyone any suggestion/ideas?

"Reece" wrote:

> Oops! I thought I was in the ASP.NET newsgroup when I posted that.
>
>
> "Reece" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:uXOMl.10015$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > Here is a starter idea since no one else has answered yet:
> > http://www.velocityreviews.com/forum...d-textbox.html
> >
> > See CSS Properties Window on this page:
> > http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/38741/1763/page/4
> >
> > StyleSheets and Themes are words to search for. If you have a good
> > ASP.NET book, then look those topics up.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> >
> > "newbies" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:6A3066E7-5B09-453F-858B-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >>I have several textbox which have a different background color and font
> >> type/size as the default textbox. How do I change the default background
> >> and
> >> font size so that I do not need to change each individual textbox
> >> property?
> >> Can someone share with me the steps in achieving this? I'm using Visual
> >> studio 2008 and new to c#
> >
> >
>
>
>

Hi Peter,
I've created a textbox class and compiled it. However when I drop the newly
created control from the toolbox to a form it still has the default textbox
font type and size instead of the customised font type. What could be
missing? The code for the class is below:

namespace stdformtemplate
{
public class ucTextbox : TextBox
{

private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.SuspendLayout();
//
// ucTextbox
//
this.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Verdana", 12F,
System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point,
((byte)(0)));
this.ResumeLayout(false);

}
}
}


"Peter Duniho" wrote:

> On Thu, 07 May 2009 22:46:01 -0700, newbies
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > yes it is for windows form application and I am not using wpf.
> > Anyone any suggestion/ideas?
>
> I can't think of any built-in way.
>
> One obvious possibility is for you to sub-class the TextBox class,
> providing your own default values in the sub-class, and then use that
> class instead of TextBox in your form instance.
>
> A really awful, difficult way would be to enumerate the TextBox instances
> in your form, setting the properties to your desired defaults once they
> have been created. The worst part about that would be that you'd have to
> do something, probably inspecting the InitializeComponent() method for the
> form using reflection, to figure out which instances had had their
> defaults overridden in the Designer (I suppose an alternative to that
> would be to require coders to maintain a list of objects and property
> names to skip...but that'd be really fragile).
>
> The only up-side I see to that approach is that you could add the code
> once, and it would work with any already-created Form classes. Providing
> a custom sub-class for TextBox would require at the very least a
> search-and-replace in all the *.Designer.cs files, to make "TextBox"
> instances the type you want instead (you'd have to change both the field
> declaration and the initialization, of course), and of course going
> forward people would have to remember to use the sub-class instead of the
> TextBox class.
>
> Now, all that said...there's some kind of support in Forms (and Windows
> generally) for "visual styles". I've barely noticed it, and don't have
> the specifics myself. But it's possible that via that, you can override
> the default behavior. I don't really know, but you might as well spend a
> few minutes looking into it, if it's important to you.
>
> Pete
>