Ways to centralize controls properties ?

Rushino · December 14th, 2010, 11:14 AM

Hello,

I was wondering since im working on many controls that have the same properties. Is there a way to centralize controls properties ? Such making some controls share the same properties ? like skin i think do with the style ?

Thanks.

Imar · December 14th, 2010, 11:56 AM

For some properties, you can use Skins, but for many others you can't.

What's the kind of data you try to centralize? Maybe there are alternative solutions depending on what you try to accomplish....

Imar

Rushino · December 14th, 2010, 11:59 AM

I am working with DevExpress controls and there are properties such ValidationSetting, Width, ErrorTexts etc.. properties dedicated to the control only.. not properties such runat or id or clientinstancename or anything that can't obviously be repeated.

Imar · December 14th, 2010, 01:42 PM

There's no straight forward way to do. You could do it programmatically. Here's an example (assuming you have two TextBox controls in your page):

Code:

Protected Sub Page_Init(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
  Dim allTextBoxes As New List(Of TextBox) From {TextBox1, TextBox2}
  For Each textBox As TextBox In allTextBoxes
    textBox.Text = "Some default text"
  Next
End Sub

Alternatively, if it's worth the trouble when you have many controls, you could subclass your controls and initialize their defaults somehow.

Finally, you could create code snippets that have some defaults set. Not the same thing as setting properties to all controls at once, but it may help during development.

Cheers,

Imar

Rushino · December 14th, 2010, 01:44 PM

Thanks for this simple solution. I didn't though about setting them programmatically.