Inherit from GridControl

Hei,

I want to make a derived control that inherits from your GridControl. The purpose is to make a base control with certain settings (like grid style, selection mode, hiden row headers, etc) to use in our project.

When I make my custom control and use it in a form, I get the problem with all the base styles being re-generated by the designer in InitializeComponent(). I have made changes to the base styles in my custom derived grid. I know one solution is to override the property and set the DesignerSerializationVisibility attribute to Hidden. But what if I want the user to be able to change this property? Ideally the code should only be re-generated by the designer if it changes from the custom control.

For simple properties I can override them in my control class and set the DefaultValue attribute to what I want to be default.

Do you have any ideas or tips with this issue?

Regards
Kjetil

Hi Kjetil,

In your Gridcontrol-derived class try to override these methods using the new keyword and specify DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden:

[C#.Net]
[Browsable(false), DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
public new GridRangeStyleCollection RangeStyles
{
get
{
return base.RangeStyles;
}
set
{
base.RangeStyles = value;
}
}


[VB.Net]

Public Shadows Property RangeStyles() As GridRangeStyleCollection
Get
Return MyBase.RangeStyles
End Get
Set
MyBase.RangeStyles = Value
End Set
End Property

Best regards,
Haneef