Visual Inheritance in WinForms

[Patrick Corkum]

If I have a form, say FORM_FOO, and a form that it inherits from, say
FORM_BAR and on FORM_BAR, I have a button, say BTN_RETURN. Now, how do
I make FORM_FOO actually do true inheritance when I change BTN_RETURN
on FORM_BAR? In order to actually do that, I have to open every form
that inherits from FORM_BAR and remove the code manually from
InitializeComponents(). <Never mind the fact that it needs to be
checked in and out of source safe>. There MUST be a way to make it
actually work correctly.

Please help!
Thanks in advance,
~Patrick Corkum

[Charles Law]

Hi Patrick

How are you changing the BTN_RETURN, and what exactly is the code that you
have to remove from the InitializeComponent() method?

Charles
"Patrick Corkum" <wa******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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If I have a form, say FORM_FOO, and a form that it inherits from, say
FORM_BAR and on FORM_BAR, I have a button, say BTN_RETURN. Now, how do
I make FORM_FOO actually do true inheritance when I change BTN_RETURN
on FORM_BAR? In order to actually do that, I have to open every form
that inherits from FORM_BAR and remove the code manually from
InitializeComponents(). <Never mind the fact that it needs to be
checked in and out of source safe>. There MUST be a way to make it
actually work correctly.

Please help!
Thanks in advance,
~Patrick Corkum

[Patrick Corkum]

Visual Studio 2003 is much better than 2002 in this
regards. 2002 put EVERYTHING in the InitializeComponent()
and any images in the .resx. However, since converting to
2003, I only have 2 lines of code:

this.BTN_RETURN.Name = "BTN_RETURN";
this.Controls.SetChildIndex(this.BTN_RETURN, 0);

Thanks,
~Patrick Corkum

-----Original Message-----
Hi Patrick

How are you changing the BTN_RETURN, and what exactly is the code that youhave to remove from the InitializeComponent() method?

Charles
"Patrick Corkum" <wa******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d3**************************@posting.google. com...

If I have a form, say FORM_FOO, and a form that it inherits from, say FORM_BAR and on FORM_BAR, I have a button, say BTN_RETURN. Now, how do I make FORM_FOO actually do true inheritance when I change BTN_RETURN on FORM_BAR? In order to actually do that, I have to open every form that inherits from FORM_BAR and remove the code manually from InitializeComponents(). <Never mind the fact that it needs to be checked in and out of source safe>. There MUST be a way to make it actually work correctly.

Please help!
Thanks in advance,
~Patrick Corkum

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