UserControl.Tex tChanged .NET C#

[jeeber]

I saw this on another thread (Francesco November 15th, 2005 UserControl.Tex tChanged) but I didn't see how to add to the discussion, so I'm just starting a new one and hope that people find it.

The original problem was creating a user control and trying to use existing event types like "TextChange d", if you were creating a control that was similar to a text box, for example.

The problem was that the developers at Microsoft decided that this event shouldn't be seen, so even if you add your own event handler to your user control, the event doesn't show up in the event properties window in the designer, which is kind of a nuisance.

The solution is to use an attribute mark-up to override the attributes that were set to hide the event in the first place. So your code would look like this:

[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always), Browsable(true)]
public new event EventHandler TextChanged;
 

You can find information on the attributes in the help files, kind of interesting for adding properties to your control that you want to see in the designer.

The "new" is needed because you can't override the base TextChanged (even though it does nothing! Very strange), so you basically replace it completely.

Hope this helps,

Jay

[kenobewan]

Welcome to the site. Thanks for sharing your solution to the problem.