Re: Inheriting from UserControls

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From: Charles Law (blank_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:33:51 -0000

Hi Craig

I see what you mean. I have just tried it, but I think the absence of a
designer will be a problem. I want to be able to lay out my inheriting
control visually, rather than 'guess' the position of things in code.

It's a shame that inheriting from GroupBox doesn't give a designer inside a
group box.

Charles

"Craig Vick [MSFT]" <craigv_@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Charles,
>
> It maybe easier to simply inherit from GroupBox. The problem is you won't
> have a designer when you write the control so you'll have to do everything
> in code.
>
> Craig VB. NET Team
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> >From: "Charles Law" <blank@nowhere.com>
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> >Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:44:04 -0000
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> >I want a set of controls that all have a border, like a group box. I
> thought
> >I would create a base control containing just a group box from which my
set
> >of controls could inherit. Assuming that this is the right approach
(please
> >tell me if it is not), how then do I make it so that the group box cannot
> be
> >moved around on my set of controls, but is also able to act as container
> for
> >other controls?
> >
> >If I leave the modifier of the group box as Friend, or Private, then the
> >group box appears locked on the inheriting controls, but I cannot drop
new
> >controls onto it. If I change the modifier to Protected, Protected
Friend,
> >or Public, then I can drop controls onto the group box, but I can also
move
> >the group box around on the inheriting control.
> >
> >Is there something else I must do?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Charles
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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