Custom Control Design Time Property Options

[Dave]

I'm creating a composite control using Visual C#. I want to create a
property for the control that will have only 3 options (txt, xml,
connection). When the control is used and the property is clicked in
the design time the user of the control is presented with a combo box
in the properties window with these 3 options. I need someone to send
me a couple of simple code snippets illustrating how to do this. If
you can send a reference to a book that details how to this it would
also be appreciated.

[Daniel Pratt]

Hi Dave,

"Dave" <da**************@saic.com> wrote in message
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I'm creating a composite control using Visual C#. I want to create a
property for the control that will have only 3 options (txt, xml,
connection). When the control is used and the property is clicked in
the design time the user of the control is presented with a combo box
in the properties window with these 3 options. I need someone to send
me a couple of simple code snippets illustrating how to do this. If
you can send a reference to a book that details how to this it would
also be appreciated.

Create an enumeration containing the options:

public enum SomeEnum{Text, Xml, Connection};

Define the property using the enum as the type:

private SomeEnum _someOption;
public SomeEnum SomeOption
{
get {return _someOption;}
set {_someOption = value;}
}

When you select the SomeOption property in the properties window you
will see that there is a drop-down containing the values from the SomeEnum
enumeration.

Regards,
Daniel