grouping properties of custom control

madhukp · April 2nd, 2005, 12:47 AM

I am to create a custom control. I need to group its properties into many groups. In the design mode, it should display the properties in the property table in many groups like the properties of a textbox. For. e.g. in the case of textbox control all the font properties of a textbox are grouped into a font group and while showing it just shows only "font" with a + button on the side in the property table. I want to do the same for my control. Could anybody tell me how I can do it ?

mehdi62b · April 4th, 2005, 08:03 AM

you should use some attributes for your control

look in MSDN for CategoryAttribute and DescriptionAttribute

Code:

private Font _font;
[Category("Appearance")]
[Description("The Font used to diplayed the text")]
public Font TheFont
{
  get{return _font;}
  set{_font=value;}
}

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madhukp · April 5th, 2005, 06:32 AM

Thank you mehdi. It is working.