Greetings!

In doing some research, I've learned that some other people have had
problems with Me.DesignMode not working correctly when it's used in a
user control that is placed on another form.  There was a suggestion...

Protected Shadows ReadOnly Property DesignMode() As Boolean
                Get
                    If (MyBase.DesignMode) Then
                        Return True
                    Else
                        Dim parent As Control = Me.Parent
                        While Not (parent) Is Nothing
                            Dim site As ISite = parent.Site
                            If Not (site) Is Nothing AndAlso
site.DesignMode Then
                                Return True
                            End If
                            parent = parent.Parent
                        End While
                        Return False
                    End If
                End Get
End Property

....but this suggestion does not work effectively.  Does anyone know of
another way and/or a supplement to this recursive function that I am
not seeing?  I've heard that you can use GetCurrentProcess, but that
didn't seem to work for me.

Thanks,

Kyjan

Kyjan,

I don't know if others understand this text but I don't.
A user control can be placed on every form, therefore I have the idea that
you mean something else?

Cor

My apologies, I should have elaborated a little more.

I have created a user control that has some code that needs to run in
the Load event.  When I compile the user control and then place the
user control on another form, because of the fact that the designer
actually instantiates the class, it runs the code in the Load event.
I'm trying to prevent that by testing the DesignMode property.
However, it's not working correctly because even though the UC might
not be in design mode, the form that the UC is on is in DesignMode.

Kyjan

Cor Ligthert [MVP] wrote:
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Does anyone have any suggestions?

Kyjan

I would put your code into a public subroutine of the control and call it
from the load event of the form instead of the load event of the control -
assuming that will accomplish what you want.  As you've found, you can't
rely on control events to happen when you think they should.  In VS03 I've
had a lot of problems with user controls firing events at odd times and
repeatedly.   It's a little more work, but it works for me.

hth;

DCraig.


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