I have a pretty complicated base form and for the most part inheritance works pretty well for me. The worst thing I have come across is that some controls are deliberately designed so that you cannot modify them in the derived form - most notably the MenuStrip, ToolStrip and TableLayoutPanel. Andrew
-----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sébastien Lorion Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spam:****** SpamScore] Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] VS2005 s#cks!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have opted to stay far away from Form inheritance and use exclusively UserControls instead. So far, it has proven tolerable. Besides, the model is much like ASP.NET so it makes it easier to design for both when there is such a need. Sébastien On 7/28/06, Franklin Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry all for my outburst. I've never had so much pain in going to the > next version before except when moving from COM to dotnet and that was > expected. At least then the IDE didn't have much problems. It really > buggs me that I have to put events into my base form that I inherit from > and catch the events in the inheriting form. Somewhere I think MS forgot > what inheritance is all about. > > Thanks for the links. > > > > > Message from Sébastien Lorion > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM received on 07/28/2006 > 01:55 PM > > 07/28/2006 01:55 PM > > > > Sébastien Lorion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > > Please respond to "Discussion of advanced .NET topics." > <[email protected]> > Sent by "Discussion of advanced .NET topics." > <[email protected]> > > > > To: [email protected] > cc: > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] VS2005 s#cks!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Humm, consider yourself lucky to not have worked with VS 2005 BETA 2. > RTM is rock stable compared to it ! Btw, BETA 1 was mostly fine, so > wtf happened between ? > > Sébastien > > On 7/28/06, Frans Bouma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.windowsforms.net/articles/debuggingwsod.aspx > > > > White Screen of .... 'Darn' ??? :) haha :) > > > > To Franklin: yes it sucks. MS has released some patches, call > PSS for the patches. Yes that sucks even more, we all ask MS > > year after year to release patches early, but that's not the case, > because if they'd do that the world would obvious come to an > > end... </sarcasm> > > > > FB > > > > =================================== > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com > > > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com > > > > > -- > Sébastien Lorion > Software Architect / Architecte organique > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > =================================== > 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 > -- Sébastien Lorion Software Architect / Architecte organique [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® 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
