Tools>>, Options...

[Mark B]

I want to create a Tools>>, Options form for a C# Outlook 2007 Add-in.

I have dragged a tree-view control into the left side of the form.

What control should I drag into the right side so that when a user selects a
branch in the tree view, the 'subform' with all relevant fields, pictures
etc changes on the right side of the form?

I'll also need the same for VB.Net.

[James Hahn]

Groupbox is probably the most convenient, although other containers would be
suitable. Create them as 'subforms' and manipulate the properties (eg,
visible) to show the appropriate one for each user choice in the treeview.

"Mark B" <no*****@none.comwrote in message
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>I want to create a Tools>>, Options form for a C# Outlook 2007 Add-in.

I have dragged a tree-view control into the left side of the form.

What control should I drag into the right side so that when a user selects
a branch in the tree view, the 'subform' with all relevant fields,
pictures etc changes on the right side of the form?

I'll also need the same for VB.Net.

[Mark B]

Say I have 50 of them, in design mode then do I have them all on top of each
other (making the screen look like a bird's nest and hard to edit?)
"James Hahn" <jh***@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:ud**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Groupbox is probably the most convenient, although other containers would
be suitable. Create them as 'subforms' and manipulate the properties (eg,
visible) to show the appropriate one for each user choice in the treeview.

"Mark B" <no*****@none.comwrote in message
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>>I want to create a Tools>>, Options form for a C# Outlook 2007 Add-in.

I have dragged a tree-view control into the left side of the form.

What control should I drag into the right side so that when a user
selects a branch in the tree view, the 'subform' with all relevant
fields, pictures etc changes on the right side of the form?

I'll also need the same for VB.Net.

[Peter Duniho]

(VB newsgroup removed...either this is a C# question or a VB question...it
can't be both)

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:43 -0800, Mark B <no*****@none.comwrote:

Say I have 50 of them, in design mode then do I have them all on top of
each other (making the screen look like a bird's nest and hard to edit?)

One option would be to make them all UserControl instances instead of
using the GroupBox. Then you can design each panel individually, outside
of the main form. You don't even necessarily need to add them to the form
in the designer; instead you could just add a single Panel (for placement
purposes) to the form, and programmatically add your UserControl instances
to the Panel at run-time.

Pete

[James Hahn]

You either need to carefully place them all at the exact position, making it
very hard to edit (as you comment) or lay them out in a suitable cascading
format and set the selected object's location property just before making it
visible. Even so, with 50 or so that's going to be quite an editing task.
It may be preferablet to substitute programming effort for design work and
and set up the design in some form of database and create the layout on the
fly.

"Mark B" <no*****@none.comwrote in message
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Say I have 50 of them, in design mode then do I have them all on top of
each other (making the screen look like a bird's nest and hard to edit?)

[Jack Jackson]

I would create each as a UserControl, and add them at runtime.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:52:43 +1300, "Mark B" <no*****@none.comwrote:

>Say I have 50 of them, in design mode then do I have them all on top of each
other (making the screen look like a bird's nest and hard to edit?)
"James Hahn" <jh***@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:ud**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>Groupbox is probably the most convenient, although other containers would
be suitable. Create them as 'subforms' and manipulate the properties (eg,
visible) to show the appropriate one for each user choice in the treeview.

"Mark B" <no*****@none.comwrote in message
news:u4**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>>>I want to create a Tools>>, Options form for a C# Outlook 2007 Add-in.

I have dragged a tree-view control into the left side of the form.

What control should I drag into the right side so that when a user
selects a branch in the tree view, the 'subform' with all relevant
fields, pictures etc changes on the right side of the form?

I'll also need the same for VB.Net.

[Mark B]

Thanks. I am new to C# and have never used a user control before. Can they
be designed via the GUI? I didn't see them listed in the Toolbox.

"Jack Jackson" <jj******@cinnovations.netwrote in message
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>I would create each as a UserControl, and add them at runtime.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:52:43 +1300, "Mark B" <no*****@none.comwrote:

>>Say I have 50 of them, in design mode then do I have them all on top of
each
other (making the screen look like a bird's nest and hard to edit?)
"James Hahn" <jh***@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:ud**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>>Groupbox is probably the most convenient, although other containers
would
be suitable. Create them as 'subforms' and manipulate the properties
(eg,
visible) to show the appropriate one for each user choice in the
treeview.

"Mark B" <no*****@none.comwrote in message
news:u4**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
I want to create a Tools>>, Options form for a C# Outlook 2007 Add-in.

I have dragged a tree-view control into the left side of the form.

What control should I drag into the right side so that when a user
selects a branch in the tree view, the 'subform' with all relevant
fields, pictures etc changes on the right side of the form?

I'll also need the same for VB.Net.

[Peter Duniho]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:04 -0800, Mark B <no*****@none.comwrote:

Thanks. I am new to C# and have never used a user control before. Can
they be designed via the GUI? I didn't see them listed in the Toolbox.

You can "Add..." a new UserControl to your project. It's just like adding
a new Form, but with a different base class.

[Mark B]

Thanks very much. Done that.

Now to get the user-control to appear on the main form, do I have to have
some sort of container object on the main form or can I only do it
programmatically? If the later, what would the code be?

"Peter Duniho" <Np*********@nnowslpianmk.comwrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:04 -0800, Mark B <no*****@none.comwrote:

>Thanks. I am new to C# and have never used a user control before. Can
they be designed via the GUI? I didn't see them listed in the Toolbox.

You can "Add..." a new UserControl to your project. It's just like adding
a new Form, but with a different base class.

[Peter Duniho]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:39:29 -0800, Mark B <no*****@none.comwrote:

Thanks very much. Done that.

Now to get the user-control to appear on the main form, do I have to
have some sort of container object on the main form or can I only do it
programmatically? If the later, what would the code be?

You can look at Designer-created code for ideas about how to add controls
programmatically. The basic idea is to instantiate the object (just as
you would any class), add it to the appropriate parent, and set its
location, size, and possibly other properties.

You can do this with or without a container object, and you can do this
programmatically or not. The two choices are independent of each other,
but having a container object (e.g. Panel) might make things a little
easier if you're adding them programmatically, because that would allow
you to use the Designer to place the container object, and then just
programmatically fill the container object with the appropriate
UserControl at run-time (e.g. Dock as "Fill").

Pete