Custom Control Properties

[Jon Turner]

When developing a custom control, lets say I have a property named
"WidgetType" and
this property can consist of 3 types "WidgetStandard, WidgetEnhanced,
WidgetSimple".
How does my control notify the IDE that these are the types of WidgetType so
that the
IDE can display a Listbox with these types ? Does this have to be an enum ?

Many Thanks In Advance.

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

If you make it an enum the IDE will do the conversions fro you and display
your enumeration values in the property grid.

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When developing a custom control, lets say I have a property named
"WidgetType" and
this property can consist of 3 types "WidgetStandard, WidgetEnhanced,
WidgetSimple".
How does my control notify the IDE that these are the types of WidgetType
so that the
IDE can display a Listbox with these types ? Does this have to be an enum
?

Many Thanks In Advance.

[Liu Xia]

If you want to add enum properties in custom control,first declare an enum
type like
private widgettype _theenum;
then add a property and set display style.
[DefaultValue( widgettype.something ),Category("the Category")]
public widgettype WidgetType
{
get
{
...
}
set
{
...
}
}

"Jon Turner" wrote:

When developing a custom control, lets say I have a property named
"WidgetType" and
this property can consist of 3 types "WidgetStandard, WidgetEnhanced,
WidgetSimple".
How does my control notify the IDE that these are the types of WidgetType so
that the
IDE can display a Listbox with these types ? Does this have to be an enum ?

Many Thanks In Advance.