Re: Dropping Controls On To User Control At Design Time

Hi,

Jeff Gaines wrote:

I want to create a User Control that will be able to contain other
controls - and to be able to drop those other controls on to the user
control at design time.

I haven't managed to find anything by Googling - except a MSFT example
(IToolboxUserExample) which compiles/runs but doesn't actually seem to do
anything. I also found a brief example showing that this could be done by
adding a custom designer, unfortunately although the dropped controls
seemed to nest themselves on the User Control at design time they
disappeared in a puff of smoke when I ran the app.

Your control will need to inherit from ContainerControl.

Is what I am trying to do actually possible? If so can anybody point me to
a simple example/article that I can learn from and build on please? I have
managed to build a class based on a Panel which does what I want but have
had no success with a User Control.

Check out this article, it should get you started:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/toolbars/MSOfficeTaskPane.aspx

Cheers,
Olaf
.

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