I am currently investigating the use of the standard PropertyGrid that comes
with Beta2 .NET

I (we) have made pretty good progress with determining behaviour using the
documentation and experimenting although this is taking a lot of time. One
of the biggest problems is the documentation on this subject. There is a
great lack of support at present (or examples) on the details of the
PropertyGrid. For example, the documentation does not state which attributes
can be used by the grid (e.g. "Category" attribute separates property's into
collapsable sections in the grid ... the discovery of this was by sheer luck
really).

So, if there is anyone who knows of an online tutorial on this subject, that
would be excellent. Otherwise, would you be able to answer these outstanding
questions:

           - How do you change the Label text for a property? At present it
will only set to the actual variable name ... not what is wanted!
           - Is it possible to handle input validation myself, instead of
having the automatic validation done from the grid? For example, if in a
number field I type in a char, I want to handle the exception myself,
instead of the automatic response.
            - How do I get icons to appear in the value editor section of
the grid? For example, when dealing with selecting colors, I would like a
box of the selected colour to be displayed.
            - Generally, how do I control the value editing section. For
example, if I want a ComboBox or some other component to apprear in the
grid, how do I do that?

There are actually a lot more questions, but I would hate to have to list
them all. As I said, ANY help would be greatly appreciated on this subject.

Many thanks in advance,

Matthew Tester.

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Matthew Tester

Software Engineer
MARKEM Technologies Ltd

Regards,
Saurabh Nandu
www.MasterCSharp.com
Master C#, the easy way...

Thanks for that, C# Today seems to be at a reasonable price too.

Also, for others who may be having similar problems, I also recently found a
relevant article in MSDN. The reason I didn't find it before was because
they call it a "Property Browser". If name was kept consistant then maybe I
would have spotted it earlier. Anyway, minor gripe.

Title: "Make Your Components Really RAD With the Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET Property Browser"
URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndo...
ml/vsnetpropbrow.asp

Hope this will be as usful to everyone else as it promises to be for me.

Many Thanks,
--

Matthew Tester

Software Engineer
MARKEM Technologies Ltd

Thanks
Patrik Ekengren

But a quick request. The sample code that is meant to be included in the
article I posted earlier
is missing. I click on the link at the top but it returns a blank page. Just
me or is this the case with
everyone else?

Thanks
Matt

I am trying to add a new tab to the PropertyGrid, but can't seem to get it
to display. I know that I need to create a custom Propertygrid through
inheritance so that I can override CreatePropertyTab( ) method. I have done
this and it will create a new MyPropertyTab (inherited from PropertyTab).

But how do I get it to display? Still not sure how the PropertyTabAttribute
fits in to all of this. I could really do with the "Funky Button" demo code
that is meant to be part of the "RAD development" article mentioned
previously! Anyone any ideas?

Thanks again.
Matt