Control not appear in designer

[wavemill]

Hello!

I have created a custom control, but it's not draw in my designer, but
he is draw in my application.
If you have some tutorial to create control, with category attibute and
more...

Thank you,

J.Berdoues

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace XpButton
{
public partial class CustomControl1 : Control
{
public CustomControl1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)
{
int X = this.Width;
int Y = this.Height;
Bitmap bmpOff = new Bitmap(X, Y);
Graphics gr = Graphics.FromImage(bmpOff);

SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
gr.FillRectangle(brush, 0, 0, X, Y);
pe.Graphics.DrawImage(bmpOff, 0, 0);
brush.Dispose();

// Calling the base class OnPaint
base.OnPaint(pe);
}
}
}

 

[Norman Rericha]

Here is an example

http://www.akadia.com/services/dotnet_user_controls.html

Hope this helps

--
Norman Rericha
Senior Software Engineer
Applied Data Systems
www.applieddata.net
An ISO 9001:2000 Registered Company
Microsoft WEP Gold-level Member

 

[John Socha-Leialoha]

Hello!

I have created a custom control, but it's not draw in my designer, but
he is draw in my application.
If you have some tutorial to create control, with category attibute and
more...

Thank you,

J.Berdoues

Are you using Visual Studio 2003 or 2005? If you're using VS 2003, it's
not very easy to make your custom control show up properly inside the
form designer. If you really need this functionality, you should
probably switch to VS 2005, which makes writing such a custom control
much easier.

-- john

 

[Keith Welch]

If you are using VS 2005, you might take a look at http://www.mooseworkssoftware.com/VS2005 Control.htm
Keith Welch
Mooseworks Software, LLC