Control Designer Infrastructure, User Controls

[Ralf Heitmann]

Hi,
I'm just beginning to Convert our CF1 Custom controls (with Designer
support) for the CF2.

The first thing that I found out is that the Designer Environment dlls
are not necessary anymore. As I can see from Peter Foot's answer below
that will be replace by a sort of XML Designer definition, but I haven't
found the relevant file yet. Where is it located?

Is there any information available yet about changes in the Designer
Infrastructure yet?
What has to be done to shift the Custom controls from VS2003 to VS2005?

Ralf

If you class exposes only simple typed properties then you should be

able to use the ExpandableObjectConverter. This xml worked with a
previous build of Visual Studio, I've not had chance to carry on this
work with Beta 2, but this shows the xml used for the ProcessStartInfo
class which is used by the Process class in the SDF:-

<Class Name="OpenNETCF.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo">

<DesktopCompatible>false</DesktopCompatible>
<DesignTimeVisible>true</DesignTimeVisible>

<TypeConverter>System.ComponentModel.ExpandableObjectConverter,

System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,

<Property Name="Arguments">
<Browsable>true</Browsable>

<NotifyParentProperty>true</NotifyParentProperty>
</Property>

<Property Name="FileName">
<Browsable>true</Browsable>

<NotifyParentProperty>true</NotifyParentProperty>
</Property>

<Property Name="UseShellExecute">
<Browsable>true</Browsable>
<DefaultValue>
<Type>System.Boolean</Type>
<Value>True</Value>
</DefaultValue>

<NotifyParentProperty>true</NotifyParentProperty>
</Property>

<Property Name="Verb">
<Browsable>true</Browsable>
<DefaultValue>
<Type>System.String</Type>
<Value></Value>
</DefaultValue>

 

[Keith Welch]

This is what I've found so far:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms180794(en-us,vs.80).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms180789(en-us,vs.80).aspx
It's not a lot, and I'm still having problems with properties that are
classes, but it's a start. Anyone else trying this?
Keith Welch
Mooseworks Software

 

[Tim Wilson]

I'm still in the early stages of coming to terms with the changes myself,
but it looks like there's going to be a webcast in July to try to clear some
things up.
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdteam/archive/2005/06/16/429894.aspx

 

[Ralf Heitmann]

Thanks,
this is a starting point ....

Ralf

This is what I've found so far:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms180794(en-us,vs.80).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms180789(en-us,vs.80).aspx
It's not a lot, and I'm still having problems with properties that are
classes, but it's a start. Anyone else trying this?
Keith Welch
Mooseworks Software