i was wondering if it was possible to hide everything at once in windows forms, i was planning to use a drop down which made things appear and disappear but i wanted everything hidden at the beginning for simplicity.
Thanks!
On the form, add a Panel control (found in the Containers section of the toolbox).
Set the Visible value of the Panel to be False.
Add all controls inside this panel. You can then make the panel visible and hidden via code. (no need to cycle through all controls on the form)
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I used a custom "skin" or w/e you may call it for uniquely designed forms in Visual Studio, to be accurate for VB.NET.
I decided to remove the custom form and the problem is that all controls are now hidden, but they still exist within the project.
Is there any way to make them visible in designer again, so I can add them to my new form.
Check to Location of the missing controls , maybe it's outside bounds.
I have a created a custom user control which consists of 2 controls:-
Textbox
Listbox
The function of this control is to act as a dropdown list. Below is the image of the control:-
Problem
Now the problem i am facing is that if i insert this user control into a container control like a panel then the list gets hidden inside that container control.
and if i just create the user control outside the container control then it would interfere with the Tab Order (focus order) of the form.
Is there any work around where the user control exists in the container control and still shows the complete list without being hidden in the panel?
Edit i wrongly added c# instead of VB.NET
It can be achieved by having the list as ToolStripDropDown. Similar customization have been done in the following discussion,
Show control inside user control outside the boundaries of its parent
Hope this suits you.
I have a set of controls which are added dynamically to a panel. The number of controls depends on which tab a user selects from TabPage control, which is embedded in a form.
At the moment, the controls don't appear in Designer, but appear during execution.
I managed to display controls for other forms which are not dynamic by moving the non-design code to the vb file, but how can I display the other ones?
The only answer that I know of is to add your code in the .Designer.vb file of the Form.
BUT! I strongly advise you to avoid that if you are not sure how it works! Custom code in the .Designer. files can break your form design and project with possible random crashes.
Also, your code can be changed and removed by the Visual Studio designer:
Custom code in designer.vb file goes away when making edits in design mode
Instead, you can make the panels into custom user controls and add those to the tabs.
I'm looking to have a navigation pane on the left side of my form which will change the right side of the form accordingly. I could always use panels and store the controls on the panels but is there a better way to do this? A tab control would be nice but I wouldn't want to see the actual tabs ...
Is there a way to do this?
Edit after seeing the answer:
Dim uc As New UserControl1
Form1.Controls.Add(uc)
Will add everything in the user control to the form1. Alternatively, if I had a Panel, I could do:
Panel1.controls.add(uc)
That would add it to the panel.
You can use panels, but you could also have your panes as UserControls and load them into a single panel instance, or even directly into the form.
Putting them into UserControls also means your form's generated class won't be cluttered with control members.
I would have to agree with #Dai Here is a great thread on it. It explains how to setup the panels in the ide.
I have a groupox in a VB.NET winform app. The groupbox contains a few Labels, Textboxes and Checkboxes. This was created by simply dragging the controls out of VS toolbox.
What I need to do is take the 1 Groupbox and at runtime create multiple Groupboxes to display based on user selection. Instead of dynamically creating the Groupboxes and other controls nested inside, is there a way to clone or copy the original one.
Then I'd just change the properties. Label text, Textbox text, etc. And the location of the Groupbox in the layout.
What you could do is create a user control based upon your groupbox which would allow its reuse. You could then create the instances you require at runtime and add them to the form.
Maybe suggest that you look into creating user controls for winforms.
Could this be a help to you?
How to Clone/Serialize/Copy & Paste a Windows Forms Control