Designing Windows Forms

[Joey Callisay]

I have this 3 boolean properties for my base form which defines whether it uses 3 controls.

Efficiency wise, the three controls should only be instantiated when their corresponding property is set to true. So I have this private method which is called on the constructor of the base form after InitializeComponent which Initializes or disposes the said control dependent on their associated boolean property.

I am not that fully aware of CodeDom though I know that it can generate custom code lines for me. I wanted a what-you-see-what-you-get implementation of my forms so here are my questions.

1. Is CodeDom a better way of implementing such functionality for my base form? (before I read articles about this class)
2. I know I can use CodeDom to generate initialization lines for the corresponding control when its property is set (true), can it be also used to delete such lines if the property is reset (false)
3. Any comments on my design would be appreciated.

Thanx a lot...

 

[Calvin Luttrell /PT]

Joey,

I believe the codeDom is for creating code (.vb files) to be compiled. I believe what you are saying is don't want to create instances of objects until they are needed right?



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"Efficiency wise, the three controls should only be instantiated when their corresponding property is set to true. So I have this private method which is called on the constructor of the base form after InitializeComponent which Initializes or disposes the said control dependent on their associated boolean property.

I am not that fully aware of CodeDom though I know that it can generate custom code lines for me. I wanted a what-you-see-what-you-get implementation of my forms so here are my questions.

1. Is CodeDom a better way of implementing such functionality for my base form? (before I read articles about this class)
2. I know I can use CodeDom to generate initialization lines for the corresponding control when its property is set (true), can it be also used to delete such lines if the property is reset (false)
3. Any comments on my design would be appreciated.