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Make inherited property invisibleHi all,
I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStrip property from being available, how can I do this? I have tried stuff like Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help me out with this? Kind regards, Martin. How about Private instead of Protected?
Show quoteHide quote "Martin" <@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:_0Gih.20156$493.12298@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net... > Hi all, > > I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStrip > property from being available, how can I do this? > > I have tried stuff like > Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object > > But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help > me out with this? > > Kind regards, > > Martin. > > No that doesn't work either, I had already tried it.
here is an example: Public Class Class1 Inherits ListView Private Shadows ContextMenuStrip As Object <System.ComponentModel.Browsable(False)> _ Private Shadows Property Forecolor() As Color Get End Get Set(ByVal value As Color) End Set End Property <System.ComponentModel.Browsable(False)> _ Private Shadows FullRowSelect As Object End Class All 3 overridden properties still show up in the designer, is there any way around this? Thanks. Show quoteHide quote "Scott M." <s-mar@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:Orz7XUWJHHA.1816@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > How about Private instead of Protected? > > > "Martin" <@ntlworld.com> wrote in message > news:_0Gih.20156$493.12298@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net... >> Hi all, >> >> I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStrip >> property from being available, how can I do this? >> >> I have tried stuff like >> Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object >> >> But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help >> me out with this? >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Martin. >> >> > > Hi all,
I'm still trying to figure this out with no success yet. I've created a user control that contains a listview; To work as I want it to, it relies on the the columns and contextmenu being set up in a particular way, and I would therefore like to prevent consumers of my control from accessing those properties directly. So far I have been unable to find a way of hiding/overriding these properties in the visual design environment. Could anyone at least tell me that it can't be done, in which case I'll be disappointed, but at least I can stop wasting anymore time on this aspect of the design. Sorry to keep on about this, but I was hoping someone could at least give me a definitive answer one way or the other. Kind regards, Martin. Martin wrote:
> I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStrip To suppress properties in the Designer, use the Browsable attribute, as in> property from being available, how can I do this? > > I have tried stuff like > Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object > > But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help me > out with this? Imports System.ComponentModel <Browsable(False)> _ Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object But, this property will still get included in the "Designer Generated" code. If you're developing this Control over time (i.e. while other people are developing app's that use it), you might want to prevent this, especially for new properties. If you don't, and their app's get "ahead" of your usercontrol, their constructors can fail with MissingMethodExceptions. To suppress this code being generated, use the DesignerSerializationVisiblity attribute, as in Imports System.ComponentModel ' Sorry about the /ridiculously/ long names! <Browsable(False), DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)> _ Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object HTH, Phill W. Phill,
that did the trick, thanks so much! I also used your example to work out how to stop intellisence from showing it in the code window like so... <EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never), Browsable(False), DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)> _ Public Overrides Property ContextMenuStrip() As System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip Get ' My own code End Get Set(ByVal value As System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip) 'My own code End Set End Property Once again, thanks! Show quoteHide quote "Phill W." <p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d@o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote in message news:emgha4$j0p$1@south.jnrs.ja.net... > Martin wrote: > >> I have made a usercontrol and I want to prevent the ContextMenuStrip >> property from being available, how can I do this? >> >> I have tried stuff like >> Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object >> >> But I can always still see the property in the designer, can anyone help >> me out with this? > > To suppress properties in the Designer, use the Browsable attribute, as in > > Imports System.ComponentModel > > <Browsable(False)> _ > Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object > > But, this property will still get included in the "Designer Generated" > code. If you're developing this Control over time (i.e. while other > people are developing app's that use it), you might want to prevent this, > especially for new properties. If you don't, and their app's get "ahead" > of your usercontrol, their constructors can fail with > MissingMethodExceptions. > To suppress this code being generated, use the > DesignerSerializationVisiblity attribute, as in > > Imports System.ComponentModel > > ' Sorry about the /ridiculously/ long names! > <Browsable(False), > DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)> > _ > Protected Shadows ContextMenuStrip as Object > > HTH, > Phill W. 
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