Usercontrol Help

[David Pope]

Hi Everyone!

I have a usercontrol that was developed in a project. I need to copy the
exact class and call it something different so I can make some major
enhancements to it. I don't want to change the existing control because it's
being used right now and we make updates peridically.

What is the best way to do this? I have tried to just copy the class files,
rename them, add them to the project, and attempt to change the class name
references to the new name. The problem I am seeing is when I view the
control in the designer. it's blank.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

D.

[Michael Groeger]

Hi David,

you might want to extend your user control using inheritance. It's quite
easy going, but comes with some restrictions.

Put the control in an assembly, create a second assembly, reference the
first and create a new user control deriving from the first one.
Then you should be able to extend your new control w/o changing the old one.

The problem you currently have is that you probably did not copy the
resx-file which layouts your control.

Michael

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Hi Everyone!

I have a usercontrol that was developed in a project. I need to copy the
exact class and call it something different so I can make some major
enhancements to it. I don't want to change the existing control because it's being used right now and we make updates peridically.

What is the best way to do this? I have tried to just copy the class files, rename them, add them to the project, and attempt to change the class name
references to the new name. The problem I am seeing is when I view the
control in the designer. it's blank.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

D.