Creating control arrays at design time.

[Mark Broadbent]

In VB6 (using visual studio) it was possible to create a control array at
design time by simply adding the control (e.g. textbox) and renaming it to
what would become the first element
e.g.

Name => MyTextbox
to
Name => MyTextbox(1)

you could then copy this control array element and paste back onto form to
add a new element to the control array.
Is this possible using Visual Studio 2003? I've seen the following
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...visualcnet.asp
but cannot find anything about doing this at design time (it was sooooo easy
before!)

Any ideas/ thoughts anyone?

Cheers.

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Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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[Vladimir Scherbina]

look at the direction of System.WIndows.Forms.Design namespace

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In VB6 (using visual studio) it was possible to create a control array at
design time by simply adding the control (e.g. textbox) and renaming it to
what would become the first element
e.g.

Name => MyTextbox
to
Name => MyTextbox(1)

you could then copy this control array element and paste back onto form to
add a new element to the control array.
Is this possible using Visual Studio 2003? I've seen the following
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/dv_vstechar
t/html/vbtchcreatingcontrolarraysinvisualbasicnetvisualcn et.asp but cannot find anything about doing this at design time (it was sooooo easy before!)

Any ideas/ thoughts anyone?

Cheers.

--

Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
=============

[Dilip Krishnan]

It is still easy depending on what you want to do. While VB had it to
help users create "dynamic" controls which was otherwise not possible
without control arrays, in C# you can create any number of controls and
add it to an array list and achieve the same thing.

Mark Broadbent wrote:

In VB6 (using visual studio) it was possible to create a control array at
design time by simply adding the control (e.g. textbox) and renaming it to
what would become the first element
e.g.

Name => MyTextbox
to
Name => MyTextbox(1)

you could then copy this control array element and paste back onto form to
add a new element to the control array.
Is this possible using Visual Studio 2003? I've seen the following
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...visualcnet.asp
but cannot find anything about doing this at design time (it was sooooo easy
before!)

Any ideas/ thoughts anyone?

Cheers.

--
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dilipdotnet at apdiya dot com

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Dilip, yeah had a play with the ArrayList with regards to this. You are
right it is relatively easy and gives me the functionality I had. Just a
couple of points on this though.
Firstly to access the textbox's as such I need to cast them to a TextBox
type (since they are added to the collection as Object), the control array
in VB6 was of the type of the first control (not object).
Secondly I am having to code functionality that the designer (in VS6)
previously did effortlessly by just naming a control using an index .

-I just hoped that the designer retained this functionality -regardless of
the code that is eventually generated.

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Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
=============
"Dilip Krishnan" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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It is still easy depending on what you want to do. While VB had it to
help users create "dynamic" controls which was otherwise not possible
without control arrays, in C# you can create any number of controls and
add it to an array list and achieve the same thing.

Mark Broadbent wrote:

In VB6 (using visual studio) it was possible to create a control array at design time by simply adding the control (e.g. textbox) and renaming it to what would become the first element
e.g.

Name => MyTextbox
to
Name => MyTextbox(1)

you could then copy this control array element and paste back onto form to add a new element to the control array.
Is this possible using Visual Studio 2003? I've seen the following
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...visualcnet.asp but cannot find anything about doing this at design time (it was sooooo easy before!)

Any ideas/ thoughts anyone?

Cheers.

--
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dilipdotnet at apdiya dot com