I seemed to have answered my own questino. Sorry if this qualifies for the obvious list but you don't have to implement your own collections class to implement a collection-based property on a control. Took me a bit to figure that out as most of the smaples I had seen had implemented a collection class.
Reggie -----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Sells Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Collections Editor question What's the "collections editor?" Chris Sells http://www.sellsbrothers.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Reggie Burnett > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 6:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET] Collections Editor question > > Do I have to derive from CollectionsBase to get the collections editor to > properly edit my types in the IDE? That doesn't make sense. I should be > able to use a simple built in array class to hold my objects and then use an > attribute to tell the compiler what object the editor to construct for the > array. What am I missing? > > I implemented a custom collection and the editor did work but all of the > member implementations on the collection just simply called into the same > base method. No new functionality at all. Why oh why do I have to write > code that adds no functionality just to get the editor to work? > > Reggie > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.