HOWTO: Make a container control?

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

How can I make a control that acts like a container control (besides from
inheriting from panel) ?

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

[Patrice]

"Container" is a bit vague. If you are talking about naming containers, they
are created by using the INamingContainer marker interface...

Patrice

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How can I make a control that acts like a container control (besides from
inheriting from panel) ?

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

Well, I mean a Form Control that I can add children Controls to. Like the
Panel Control.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre
"Patrice" <no****@nowhere.com> escribió en el mensaje
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"Container" is a bit vague. If you are talking about naming containers,
they
are created by using the INamingContainer marker interface...

Patrice

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"Alejandro Lapeyre" <Al**************@jotmail.com> a écrit dans le message
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How can I make a control that acts like a container control (besides from
inheriting from panel) ?

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

[Claudio Grazioli]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:34:23 -0300, Alejandro Lapeyre wrote:

Well, I mean a Form Control that I can add children Controls to. Like the
Panel Control.

Than you have to create a UserControl.

Here http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usin.../aa082503a.htm you can
find a short tutorial (in VB.NET).

hth

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Claudio Grazioli
http://www.grazioli.ch

[Patrice]

This collection is inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Control. All controls
should have this one.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...trolstopic.asp

Try also :
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickst...gControls.aspx

I believe you are after the "User Controls" sample... (my understanding is
that you would like to combine several existing controls in your own control
?).

Patrice

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"Alejandro Lapeyre" <Al**************@jotmail.com> a écrit dans le message
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Well, I mean a Form Control that I can add children Controls to. Like the
Panel Control.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre
"Patrice" <no****@nowhere.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

"Container" is a bit vague. If you are talking about naming containers,
they
are created by using the INamingContainer marker interface...

Patrice

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"Alejandro Lapeyre" <Al**************@jotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:er**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

How can I make a control that acts like a container control (besides from inheriting from panel) ?

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

[Claudio Grazioli]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:09:31 -0300, Alejandro Lapeyre wrote:

If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

So what's wrong with the panel control then?

I think you could create a UserControl and implement your own designer
support.

I recommend to look at the XPCC controls library
(http://www.steepvalley.net/dev/projects.aspx).

It's open source and there is a TaskPane control that I think does exactly
what you want. It's kind of a panel, but inherited from UserControl and
supports design time.
--
Claudio Grazioli
http://www.grazioli.ch

[Patrice]

Was starting to suspect something similar....

This is likely done with "designers". See around :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...omdesigner.asp

And in particular this one :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

Good luck.
Patrice

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"Alejandro Lapeyre" <Al**************@jotmail.com> a écrit dans le message
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If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

What I want to do is a Control similar to the Tab control. but without tabs.

I want to use it for Wizard like forms.

Thanks for the input, I will check your postings.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

"Claudio Grazioli" <ne********@gmx-ist-cool.de> escribió en el mensaje
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:09:31 -0300, Alejandro Lapeyre wrote:

If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

So what's wrong with the panel control then?

I think you could create a UserControl and implement your own designer
support.

I recommend to look at the XPCC controls library
(http://www.steepvalley.net/dev/projects.aspx).

It's open source and there is a TaskPane control that I think does exactly
what you want. It's kind of a panel, but inherited from UserControl and
supports design time.
--
Claudio Grazioli
http://www.grazioli.ch

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

THANKS!

The ParentControlDesigner Class looks promising.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

"Patrice" <no****@nowhere.com> escribió en el mensaje
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Was starting to suspect something similar....

This is likely done with "designers". See around :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...omdesigner.asp

And in particular this one :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

Good luck.
Patrice

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"Alejandro Lapeyre" <Al**************@jotmail.com> a écrit dans le message
de news:uk**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

[Richard L Rosenheim]

To enable container support for an user control, you need to import
System.ComponentModel and System.ComponentModel.Design and add the following
line before the "Public Class" statement:

<Designer("System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentContr olDesigner,
System.Design", _
GetType(Design.IDesigner))> _

Richard Rosenheim
"Alejandro Lapeyre" <Al**************@jotmail.com> wrote in message
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If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre

[Alejandro Lapeyre]

THANKS!

Best Regards
Alejandro Lapeyre

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> escribió en el mensaje
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To enable container support for an user control, you need to import
System.ComponentModel and System.ComponentModel.Design and add the
following
line before the "Public Class" statement:

<Designer("System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentContr olDesigner,
System.Design", _
GetType(Design.IDesigner))> _

Richard Rosenheim
"Alejandro Lapeyre" <Al**************@jotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uk**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

If I inherit from UserControl I cannot add controls to my UserControl at
design time.

Best Regards,
Alejandro Lapeyre