Q: On inherited forms with controls.

[Martin Arvidsson]

Hi!

I have created a form with a couple of controls and public methods.

In the second form i want to inherit the first form so i issue

public class NewForm : InheritFromForm
{
and so on
}

When showing NewForm in the designer, all the controls are locked and i
can't move them, is there a way to get around this, since i may want to
disable a button in the NewForm but not in the InheritFromForm.

Why you may ask, answer is simple, we have customers who wants special
functions and so on in a form. So instead of creating a new form with their
functions i want to inherit the functions. But i didn't think the inherited
controls would be locked

Any tips?

Regards
Martin Arvidsson

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Martin,

In the base form, are the controls private or protected? By default,
they are probably private, so you will have to change the access modifier to
protected so your derived forms can access them.

Hope this helps.