Attaching Class Files To Each Other

I have a class that I started writing, then decided to have it inherit from UserControl. I edited the class declaration to make it a partial class, but when I edit the designer, the changes are place in the main ..cs. So I created a Designer.cs file and added all the code that's typically auto-generated.

Is there a way to get VS to see this Designer.cs as the associated partial class for the user control? Everything looks okay as far as naming and partial class definitions. It's like VS has some other place where it's tracking what files are asscoiated with each other.

Insight?

Thanks.

J

I figured out how to do it by editing the project file directly.

Is there a way to do this via the UI?
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I have a class that I started writing, then decided to have it inherit from UserControl. I edited the class declaration to make it a partial class, but when I edit the designer, the changes are place in the main ..cs. So I created a Designer.cs file and added all the code that's typically auto-generated.

Is there a way to get VS to see this Designer.cs as the associated partial class for the user control? Everything looks okay as far as naming and partial class definitions. It's like VS has some other place where it's tracking what files are asscoiated with each other.

Insight?

Thanks.

J

[Linda Liu [MSFT]]

Hi J,

Yes, you're right. The relationship of a Designer.cs file and its .cs file
is stored in the project file. We could edit the project file to set the
relationship between a Designer.cs file and its .cs file, if necessary.

I have spent some time trying to find a way to set the relationship within
VS IDE, but without success.

Since it is not a 'normal' way to add a UserControl as you describe, i.e.
add a class into the project first and then make it derived from the
UserControl class and change it a paritial class in code and add a
Designer.cs file later, there may not be a UI setting to set the
relationship between a Designer.cs file and a .cs file.
Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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