HOWTO: Make a container control?

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

How can I make a control that acts like a container control (besides from
inheriting from panel) ?

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

 

[Patrice]

"Container" is a bit vague. If you are talking about naming containers, they
are created by using the INamingContainer marker interface...

Patrice

 

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

Well, I mean a Form Control that I can add children Controls to. Like the
Panel Control.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

 

[Patrice]

This collection is inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Control. All controls
should have this one.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...stemwindowsformscontrolclasscontrolstopic.asp

Try also :
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quicks...rt/winforms/doc/WinFormsCreatingControls.aspx

I believe you are after the "User Controls" sample... (my understanding is
that you would like to combine several existing controls in your own control
?).

Patrice

--

 

[Claudio Grazioli]

Well, I mean a Form Control that I can add children Controls to. Like the
Panel Control.

Than you have to create a UserControl.

Here http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usingvbnet/l/aa082503a.htm you can
find a short tutorial (in VB.NET).

hth

 

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.



Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

 

[Claudio Grazioli]

If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

So what's wrong with the panel control then?

I think you could create a UserControl and implement your own designer
support.

I recommend to look at the XPCC controls library
(http://www.steepvalley.net/dev/projects.aspx).

It's open source and there is a TaskPane control that I think does exactly
what you want. It's kind of a panel, but inherited from UserControl and
supports design time.

 

[Patrice]

Was starting to suspect something similar....

This is likely done with "designers". See around :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...uide/html/cpconimplementingcustomdesigner.asp

And in particular this one :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ormsdesignparentcontroldesignerclasstopic.asp

Good luck.


Patrice

 

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

What I want to do is a Control similar to the Tab control. but without tabs.

I want to use it for Wizard like forms.

Thanks for the input, I will check your postings.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

 

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

THANKS!

The ParentControlDesigner Class looks promising.



Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

 

[Richard L Rosenheim]

To enable container support for an user control, you need to import
System.ComponentModel and System.ComponentModel.Design and add the following
line before the "Public Class" statement:

<Designer("System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentControlDesigner,
System.Design", _
GetType(Design.IDesigner))> _

Richard Rosenheim

 

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

THANKS!

Best Regards
Alejandro Lapeyre

To enable container support for an user control, you need to import
System.ComponentModel and System.ComponentModel.Design and add the
following
line before the "Public Class" statement:

<Designer("System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentControlDesigner,
System.Design", _
GetType(Design.IDesigner))> _

Richard Rosenheim