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
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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)
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 am trying to add datagridview control in my custom control but i failed.
I started creating new project[windows custom control library], added datagridview control on it and also added a property naming "DGVMain" which refers to datagridview control.
I compiled it.
While testing i find its properties like visible and other working but when i click on columns property it doesn't work. i.e i cannot add/edit columns into the datagridview of my custom control.
Did i miss any steps or do i need to add some more actions?
As you don't have other control within your custom control, maybe an inherited user control would be more appropriate in this case and I'm sure it will also fix your problem.
In Visual Studio 2008, using VB .NET, I have a Split Container that I want to dynamically load panels into the Panel2 slot from other team member's work based on user input in the Panel1 controls.
Can my team members work on panels outside of a form, save it, then have the main Form just load those panels when needed without copying and pasting each panel into the form and making them visible and invisible?
Thanks.
Sure, have the team build user controls which you will then add to the control collection for the panel.