Inheriting forms

[Nancy Kafer]

I would like to use form inheritance in my VB .NET 2003 smart device
application. While researching this I discovered that form inheritance will
not be available until .NET Compact Framework 2.0. Will OpenNetCF allow me
to use form inheritance?

Thanks.

Nancy

 

[Daniel Moth]

Form inheritance is not supported from a *visual* perspective but it works
otherwise. Given that this is a tool problem, opennetcf does not come into
the picture... today.

Search the archives for the usual workarounds.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...nheritance&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Mark Arteaga]

You can do form inheritance but you will lose designer support for your
forms. A method I use is to use a conditional compile define constant and
your form class like this.

#define BASEFORM //Must be put before your using statements
....
#if BASEFORM
public class form1:BaseForm
#else
public class form1:System.Windows.Forms.Form
#endif

Comment out the #define statement to get designer support and uncomment the
line when debugging. You can also create a Solution Configuration and add
the define constant in there.