Provide subclassed win controls for plugins

[Rotsey]

Hi,

I am planning a win forms app that bascially has a shell
that has plugins to provide functionality.

I want to be able to create a library of subclassed
win form controls that I can control the font
colors etc so that when the app font is changed for
exmaple all controls in all plugins change.

So my question is should I allow the plugins
to refernece the control libary and pass to
the plugin the application properties.

Or

Provide a control service main app
to the plugin that would allow the
app to control application properties

What is the best way to do this?

rotsey

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

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