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7-Feb-07 5:10

In visual studio 2005 within an asp.net project you can bring up the style builder by placing an html input control on a web page and going to style in the property grid. I would like to use this editor in a windows C# project on my property grid.

How do I make the following show that editor in my class that is the "SelectedObject" in the property grid?

class mySelectedObject
{
private string mStyle;
/// [I know I need to put something here in the brackets]
public string Style
{
get { return mStyle; }
set { mStyle = value; }
}
}

Thanks
Chris

Marc Clifton7-Feb-07 5:25

Marc Clifton

7-Feb-07 5:25

[Browsable(true)]

I think. Smile | :)

Marc

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Christopher Stratmann7-Feb-07 5:26

7-Feb-07 5:26

Tried it and it doesn't work....

Marc Clifton7-Feb-07 5:35

Marc Clifton

7-Feb-07 5:35

Hmm. The property type is string, so the property grid should just show an area where you can enter a string. But if you want to specify a specific editor, look up [EditorAttribute]. Hope that helps!

Marc

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Christopher Stratmann7-Feb-07 5:32

7-Feb-07 5:32

This is all my code...

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.Design.WebControls;

namespace Test
{
    class LabelProperties
    {
        private Style mName;
        [Browsable(true)]
        [Editor(typeof(StyleCollectionEditor), typeof(StyleCollectionEditor))]
        public Style Name
        {
            get { return mName; }
            set { mName = value; }
        }
    }
}

Nothing happens all I get is an empty box with no "..." button to click on.

Chris

Christopher Stratmann7-Feb-07 5:37

7-Feb-07 5:37

I just made a fix that I think may help. It still doesn't work but it load an Object Collection Editor....

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.Design.WebControls;

namespace QWareAdvantage.Controls
{
    class LabelProperties
    {
        private Style mName;
        [Browsable(true)]
        [Editor(typeof(StyleCollectionEditor), typeof(System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor))]
        public Style Name
        {
            get { return mName; }
            set { mName = value; }
        }
    }
}

Stefan Troschuetz7-Feb-07 5:37

Stefan Troschuetz

7-Feb-07 5:37

What you are looking for is the Editor attribute as this lets you specify which editor is used to change the value of a property. Since all editors should be derived from the UITypeEditor, you should be able to find the name of the one you're looking for by starting from the MSDN topic of the UITypeEditor.

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Christopher Stratmann7-Feb-07 5:39

7-Feb-07 5:39

Thanks for the answer but just tried the following and the only thing that is comming up is an "Object Collection Editor"

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.Design.WebControls;

namespace QWareAdvantage.Controls
{
    class LabelProperties
    {
        private Style mName;
        [Browsable(true)]
        [Editor(typeof(StyleCollectionEditor), typeof(System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor))]
        public Style Name
        {
            get { return mName; }
            set { mName = value; }
        }
    }
}

Question about Filling Semi curved shapes

Stefan Troschuetz7-Feb-07 6:14

Stefan Troschuetz

7-Feb-07 6:14

Mmh, that's really weird. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that you're trying to achieve this in a windows application project.

VS2005 Addin

topcatalpha7-Feb-07 5:07

topcatalpha

7-Feb-07 5:07

Hi,

I'm trying to build and test a'n addin for VS2005, but none of them, also downloaded source code (that ofcours should work), doesn't appear in my addin manager, none of them our visible in the tools menu..

Can anyone give me some more info about where to place the files, what to add in the registry ?

it also seems the wizard doesn't make a setup for the addin and yes in the articles written by other developers it seems to be created automatically.
does it depends on the VS version ? i work with the VS2005 Pro.

Thx

Kurt

PS : at this moment i'm downloading VS2005 SP1 that maybe could solve the problem.

Re: VS2005 Addin

topcatalpha13-Feb-07 4:51

topcatalpha

13-Feb-07 4:51

Or maybe suggestions for a good book about this topic ?

thx

Re: VS2005 Addin

topcatalpha13-Feb-07 23:00

topcatalpha

13-Feb-07 23:00

As i thought...

After installing SP1 for VS2005 my add ins all appear in the toolsmenu of VS....

greetz

Kurt

ThetaClear7-Feb-07 4:45

ThetaClear

7-Feb-07 4:45

Hi everybody
I'm creating my own trackBar control.
Basically, I need to draw a rectangle that has four rounded corners.
When I reach to the point in the rectangle filling that I need to draw a rounded edge and make sure that it will be filled, how can I do it?

thanks

Re: Question about Filling Semi curved shapes

Luc Pattyn7-Feb-07 6:25

Luc Pattyn

7-Feb-07 6:25

GraphicsPath.CloseFigure() did it for me.

Example (rounded rect):

GraphicsPath path=new System.Drawing.Drawing2D.GraphicsPath();
// top left arc
path.AddArc(arc, 180, 90);
// top right arc
arc.X=baseRect.Right-diameter;
path.AddArc(arc, 270, 90);
// bottom right arc
arc.Y=baseRect.Bottom-diameter;
path.AddArc(arc, 0, 90);
// bottom left arc
arc.X=baseRect.Left;
path.AddArc(arc, 90, 90);
path.CloseFigure();

and now you can do Graphics.DrawPath or FillPath.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn

Re: Question about Filling Semi curved shapes

ThetaClear7-Feb-07 22:39

ThetaClear

7-Feb-07 22:39

thanks man Smile | :)

Remoting problem using multiple clients

Praveen Raghuvanshi7-Feb-07 4:10

Praveen Raghuvanshi

7-Feb-07 4:10

I am developing an application that will log messages coming from n-number of clients. we cannot predict the number of clients. The application is being developed using .Net Remoting. whenever, i tries to run 3-4 clients, memory goes increasing of server for each addition of client. that means on every addition of client server memory and CPU usage increases. How can i control the increase of memory and CPU usage.
The logs are coming at a very fast rate.

Thanks in advance

Praveen Raghuvanshi
Software Engineer

Re: Remoting problem using multiple clients

led mike7-Feb-07 6:19

led mike

7-Feb-07 6:19

praveen raghuvanshi wrote:
How can i control the increase of memory and CPU usage.

Not sure you can with remoting. If you can it would likely involve much more development than usual for using Remoting. Given your problem domain (logging) and your memory usage concern, perhaps using Message Queues would be a better approach?

led mike

Problem with ReadLine method! Help wanted!

vitaco7-Feb-07 4:06

vitaco

7-Feb-07 4:06

I need to read a file with Russian words to an array. But instead I get a lot of empty lines. I tried the sample code from MSDN (below) to find the problem. The result was the same - just empty lines.

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("c:\\input.txt"))
                {
                    String line;
                    // Read and display lines from the file until the end of 
                    // the file is reached.
                    while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(line);
                    }
                }

Will you be so kind to help me understand what to use when working with Russian (non Latin) characters, words?
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

m@u7-Feb-07 4:32

m@u

7-Feb-07 4:32

Hi
For some reason, if you initialize a StreamReader with the Constructor Streamreader(string), it will use Encoding.UTF7.
if you want to use russian Encoding, you will have to use Streamreader(string,System.Text.Encoding) Constructor.
if your default Encoding on the PC is the Russion Encoding just do it this way:

<br />
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("c:\\input.txt",System.Text.Encoding.Default))<br />
                {<br />
                    String line;                    // Read and display lines from the file until the end of<br />
                     // the file is reached.<br />
                    while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)<br />
                    {<br />
                        Console.WriteLine(line);<br />
                    }<br />
                }<br />

otherwise you can Create an Encoding with the appropriate Codepage ID

Greets
M@u

vitaco7-Feb-07 18:38

vitaco

7-Feb-07 18:38

M@u thank you very much. Your suggestion solved the problem. Now I will have to figure out how to do the same but in cases when Russian is not the default language. Probably I will have to learn how to "Create an Encoding with the appropriate Codepage ID". Thanks again. Very helpful.

m@u7-Feb-07 20:44

m@u

7-Feb-07 20:44

Hi..

to create a Codepage by ID or Name you do the following:

<br />
System.Text.Encoding myEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(encodingName);<br />

<br />
System.Text.Encoding myEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(codePage);<br />

where encodingName is a string and codePage is an int.

you can find out the name of your current defaultEncoding by saying

<br />
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(System.Text.Encoding.Default.Name);<br />

or the codepage with

<br />
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(System.Text.Encoding.Default.CodePage);<br />

if you want to use a different Encoding check http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding(vs.80).aspx[^].
here you'll find a list with all supported encodings.

Greets.
m@u