I've been through google a few times ^_^. Still on it actually. And, yes, 2.0 - I'm not creating a control, I want to add, I guess it would be best described as a, pseudo-property. I'm not quite sure how .Net does it with the control I mentioned, but it would seem that it actually stores the property information in the TableLayoutPanel control and creates a property that appears to be part of the controls in the TableLayoutPanel.Controls collection. For example, you create a TableLayoutPanel instance on a form, then add a TextBox (named text1) control to the TableLayoutPanel, you can now access text1.Cell or text1.Column, etc... Even though that control never has those properties on it, once it becomes a member of the TableLayoutPanel.Controls collection it does.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pardee, Roy Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 15:53 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Adding properties to child controls? In the 1.1 world, you'd create a component w/a property decorated w/the "ProvidePropertyAttribute", and you might also implement the IExtenderProvider interface. Probably it's similar in the 2.0 world (which I assume you're in, as I don't recognize the TableLayoutPanel type). Hopefully a troll through the help docs and/or google will put you on the scent. HTH, -Roy -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Miley Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 12:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Adding properties to child controls? I'm looking for some information on adding properties to child controls similar to the way that TableLayoutPanel adds Cell, Column, Row, ColumnSpan, and RowSpan to its child Controls. I would assume this is possible since it is being done already.(?) Basically, what I want is to add a bool property to controls added to a form (the forms will be derived from a custom base form class). This property will be used to determine if the control has a user-defined default. I figured this would be a good way to handle it since a lot of our forms use classes that dynamically generate their content based on data in SQL tables, yet there can still be standard windows forms controls mixed in that may or may not qualify as having user definable default values. I've tried a couple hacky ways to emulate it but end up on the reverse end of the success stick. Anyone have any suggestions as to how I could do this? Thanks for any information. Greg =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
