Hello,

I was wondering why certain properties appear in the properties window, and can contain a drop down list, but others can't. I see that properties that are string, int, boolean, etc. appear, and even enumerations, and even the FontInfo class (Font property, obviously), but I tried to use a style property (System.Web.UI.WebControls.Style class), but it wouldn't allow you to drill down. Any ideas why?

Thanks,

Brian Mains

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Brian

Hi Brian,

If you are implementing your own properties in your own classes, I think you need stuff like TypeConverters and other scary classes and objects for the properties to show up correctly in the designer.

I played around with this a while ago, trying to get custom properties show up in the designer. I found the following article reasonably useful when creating your own design-time support:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...etpropbrow.asp

Searching Google for TypeConverters may get you some more useful stuff.

It can be a pain to get it going, but once it works, you can really show off your own controls.... ;)

Cheers,

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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