Make inherited property invisible

[Martin]

Hi all,

I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStri p
property from being available, how can I do this?

I have tried stuff like
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help me
out with this?

Kind regards,

Martin.

[Scott M.]

How about Private instead of Protected?
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Hi all,

I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStri p
property from being available, how can I do this?

I have tried stuff like
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help
me out with this?

Kind regards,

Martin.

[Martin]

No that doesn't work either, I had already tried it.

here is an example:

Public Class Class1
Inherits ListView

Private Shadows ContextMenuStri p As Object

<System.Compone ntModel.Browsab le(False)_
Private Shadows Property Forecolor() As Color
Get
End Get
Set(ByVal value As Color)
End Set
End Property

<System.Compone ntModel.Browsab le(False)_
Private Shadows FullRowSelect As Object
End Class

All 3 overridden properties still show up in the designer, is there any way
around this?

Thanks.
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How about Private instead of Protected?
"Martin" <@ntlworld.comw rote in message
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>Hi all,

I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStri p
property from being available, how can I do this?

I have tried stuff like
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help
me out with this?

Kind regards,

Martin.

[Martin]

Hi all,

I'm still trying to figure this out with no success yet.

I've created a user control that contains a listview; To work as I want it
to, it relies on the the columns and contextmenu being set up in a
particular way, and I would therefore like to prevent consumers of my
control from accessing those properties directly.

So far I have been unable to find a way of hiding/overriding these
properties in the visual design environment.

Could anyone at least tell me that it can't be done, in which case I'll be
disappointed, but at least I can stop wasting anymore time on this aspect of
the design.

Sorry to keep on about this, but I was hoping someone could at least give me
a definitive answer one way or the other.

Kind regards,

Martin.

[Phill W.]

Martin wrote:

I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStri p
property from being available, how can I do this?

I have tried stuff like
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help me
out with this?

To suppress properties in the Designer, use the Browsable attribute, as in

Imports System.Componen tModel

<Browsable(Fals e)_
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

But, this property will still get included in the "Designer Generated"
code. If you're developing this Control over time (i.e. while other
people are developing app's that use it), you might want to prevent
this, especially for new properties. If you don't, and their app's get
"ahead" of your usercontrol, their constructors can fail with
MissingMethodEx ceptions.
To suppress this code being generated, use the
DesignerSeriali zationVisiblity attribute, as in

Imports System.Componen tModel

' Sorry about the /ridiculously/ long names!
<Browsable(Fals e),
DesignerSeriali zationVisibilit y(DesignerSeria lizationVisibil ity.Hidden) _
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

HTH,
Phill W.

[Martin]

Phill,

that did the trick, thanks so much!

I also used your example to work out how to stop intellisence from showing
it in the code window like so...

<EditorBrowsabl e(EditorBrowsab leState.Never), Browsable(False ),
DesignerSeriali zationVisibilit y(DesignerSeria lizationVisibil ity.Hidden)_
Public Overrides Property ContextMenuStri p() As
System.Windows. Forms.ContextMe nuStrip
Get
' My own code
End Get
Set(ByVal value As System.Windows. Forms.ContextMe nuStrip)
'My own code
End Set
End Property
Once again, thanks!

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Martin wrote:

>I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStri p
property from being available, how can I do this?

I have tried stuff like
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help
me out with this?

To suppress properties in the Designer, use the Browsable attribute, as in

Imports System.Componen tModel

<Browsable(Fals e)_
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

But, this property will still get included in the "Designer Generated"
code. If you're developing this Control over time (i.e. while other
people are developing app's that use it), you might want to prevent this,
especially for new properties. If you don't, and their app's get "ahead"
of your usercontrol, their constructors can fail with
MissingMethodEx ceptions.
To suppress this code being generated, use the
DesignerSeriali zationVisiblity attribute, as in

Imports System.Componen tModel

' Sorry about the /ridiculously/ long names!
<Browsable(Fals e),
DesignerSeriali zationVisibilit y(DesignerSeria lizationVisibil ity.Hidden)>
_
Protected Shadows ContextMenuStri p as Object

HTH,
Phill W.