ATTENTION: I've decided to put the upgrade on hold due to a compatibility issue of our server environment with the latest CS installer package. CS 2008 now requires SQL Server 2005 as the backend DB but our database server currenlty has SQL Server 2000 installed on it. I'll resume the upgrade once I figure out when Telligent is releasing a patch to the schema compatibility issue. For now, we will continue to use the old version of CS while waiting for the said patch. If you have any questions about this process, please don't hesitate to post them on our forums and I'll answer them as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience and support guys! I'll let you know as soon as this is resolved. - Keith Rull

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Handling designtime resize for controls

How to do this? You don’t have to override OnResize and do those checks (DesignMode, IsHandleCreated, etc.). I’ve been here and I’ve encountered a number of problems. A better way is to create a designer class, attach a handler on the Resize event of...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2006 7:08 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, designer, windows forms
Strongly-typed Collection’s Add and AddRange methods

The CollectionCodeDomSerializer uses reflection to serialize a serializeable collection properties to locate methodinfo with “Add” and “AddRange” as names. We have a coding convention here to use prefix to clearly distinguish methods from properties,...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2005 3:41 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, designer, windows forms, controls
Overriding ControlDesigner.SelectionRules

The virtual readonly SelectionRules property of the ControlDesigner class is necessary if you want to fiddle with the selection grabs of your control at designtime (if you want to make your control not re-sizable vertically like the Windows Forms TextBox...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2005 7:23 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, designer, windows forms
MissingMethodException during a form load at designtime

Some control properties where dropped. Forms still have them in InitializeComponent. Form is loaded at designtime with an attached debugger instance (devenv.exe). CodeDomSerializer class tries to deserialize the said property set. A MissingMethodException...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2005 7:26 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, designer, windows forms, debugging
Design-able Abstract Base Forms in Whidbey

I have blogged about the Windows Forms designer behavior with abstract base forms here . Brian Pepin has an update on how Whidbey can support design-able abstract classes through the new TypeDescriptionProvider class. He also points out an important example...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2005 6:18 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, tips, designer, windows forms
Undo feature bug of VS2003

Create a form with anchored controls. (Not just the default Top | Left) Resize the form Hit Undo (Ctrl-Z), voila! The Undo feature at design time is handled by the Windows Forms Designer and the said functionality is one of the complex implementations...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2005 9:11 AM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, designer, undo, bug, anchoring
InitializeComponent, Abstract Base Forms and Visual Studio Design Behavior

It is interesting to know how the Designers works in Visual Studio when one is designing a component, control or form (controls and forms by the way are special kind of components with visual representation at the document surface). Knowing such kind...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2005 10:59 AM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, visual studio, designer, windows forms, initializecomponent
DesignerHost and Designer Services reference retrieval

There are a number of sample codes for designer classes of custom controls. Some are storing internal references to the services (IComponentChangeService, ISelectionChangeService, etc.) and the designerhost, some are getting them when needed. The second...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2005 12:20 AM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, techie, designer

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