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Class Library and Intellisense

15-Jun-08 2:03

This is not the ASP.NET forum.

Delegates are used for a start whenever an event fires. In ASP.NET, Page_load and Page_prerender work b/c of delegates. In winforms, your click events, load events, etc, work b/c of delegates. I would use delegates most for communication between forms, or between user controls in ASP.NET. You'd use delegates a lot less in ASP.NET b/c it's stateless, your page is completely recreated on every postback.

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Ian Uy14-Jun-08 19:41

14-Jun-08 19:41

Good Day,

Why is it that when I distribute my DLL, the intellisense won't work?

I mean, this stuffs:
/// summary
///
/// /summary
/// <param name="input"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
Thanks!

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Brady Kelly14-Jun-08 23:32

Brady Kelly

14-Jun-08 23:32

Are you distributing the XML file with it?

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Ian Uy15-Jun-08 1:18

15-Jun-08 1:18

I'm sorry. What XML file?

Brady Kelly15-Jun-08 1:25

Brady Kelly

15-Jun-08 1:25

When you build your project, the compiler should be told to also generate an XML file, using your XML comments. If you distribute this file with your library, the comments are available in Intellisense.

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Ian Uy15-Jun-08 1:26

15-Jun-08 1:26

Thanks for your reply.

How can I instruct Visual Studio to generate the XML file?

Brady Kelly15-Jun-08 1:29

Brady Kelly

15-Jun-08 1:29

I don't know off hand, I normally use the Help to find functions like this.

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Scott Dorman15-Jun-08 2:15

Scott Dorman

15-Jun-08 2:15

This can be set in the project properties screen, on the "Build" tab. You may have to scroll the screen down some, but there is a check box labeled "XML documentation file". You will need to check that box. Be aware that this is a "per-configuration" property, so you will need to enable it in both debug and release mode builds.

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#realJSOP15-Jun-08 3:46

#realJSOP

15-Jun-08 3:46

He shouldn't need to distribute a XML file. I don't know if it's because he doesn't know how to format his code blocks, or what, but notice that he's missing the <> around his summary tags.

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Gareth H15-Jun-08 4:03

Gareth H

15-Jun-08 4:03

I think that is CP disallowing them because it thinks he might be doing something bad.

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#realJSOP15-Jun-08 5:12

#realJSOP

15-Jun-08 5:12

I think I mentioned that possibility. Still, I've written numerous class libraries in C#, and I've never once specifically created a XML file. I know it's not looking for one because I typically copy just the DLL into a separate folder before using it. It might be a project setting, but there's no external file associated with intellisense.

Ian Uy15-Jun-08 5:25

15-Jun-08 5:25

Good Day Sir,

That is exactly what I'm doing. After building the Class Library, I copy the DLL file then I add a reference to that DLL file in a new project, but the intellisense no longer works.

Thanks!

Chris Maunder15-Jun-08 5:15

Chris Maunder

15-Jun-08 5:15

Just to clarify: you are actually putting some wording in the summary /summary section...?

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Ian Uy15-Jun-08 5:23

Making application Vista compatible?

15-Jun-08 5:23

yes sir, I did.

But it wont show up here even with the gt and lt signs.

Richard Blythe14-Jun-08 17:22

Richard Blythe

14-Jun-08 17:22

Can someone point me to some good material on designing an application to be Vista compatible? I've did a minor google search but haven't found anything of value.

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Re: Making application Vista compatible?

rp_suman14-Jun-08 19:07

rp_suman

14-Jun-08 19:07

Download and take a look at this doc:

how to develop User Account Control (UAC) compliant applications for Windows Vista[^]

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Re: Making application Vista compatible?

Christian Graus15-Jun-08 2:04

Want my form to permit focus to "penetrate" to whatever window is under

15-Jun-08 2:04

Vista is a nightmare. The main thing tho, is to make sure you don't try to write to any files in the application directory. Your config files need to be in the users folder, not the app folder.

FocusedWolf14-Jun-08 14:00

Re: Want my form to permit focus to "penetrate" to whatever window is under

14-Jun-08 14:00

So if i had my form open, and i click, the click will fall to the desktop, or other forms...

any easy way to do this?

Christian Graus14-Jun-08 15:53

Re: Want my form to permit focus to "penetrate" to whatever window is under

14-Jun-08 15:53

Not a trivial way, no.

FocusedWolf14-Jun-08 16:27

Re: Want my form to permit focus to "penetrate" to whatever window is under

14-Jun-08 16:27

hmm so does the hard way involve wndproc in some fashion, or are we talking harder :P

Christian Graus14-Jun-08 16:47

Re: Want my form to permit focus to "penetrate" to whatever window is under [modified]

14-Jun-08 16:47

You can actually call an API called WindowFromPoint. So, hide your window, call that API on the screen point you clicked, convert to a point relative to the window and send it a WM_CLICK message. And a WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_LBUTTONUP. FIddly, more than anything.

FocusedWolf15-Jun-08 8:22

Re: Want my form to permit focus to "penetrate" to whatever window is under

15-Jun-08 8:22

Ya no luck with WindowFromPoint (in vista) so far... Also how do i "hide" a form from WindowFromPoint but keep it visible?, i tried making it not enabled, and some ShowWindowAsync(shades.Handle, SW_HIDE) which definatally hides it from view, but i want it visible still...

Also i tried with one of those lowlevel-ish hooks to watch the mouse when it's off my form, and so far WindowFromPoint returns 0 regardless...

something that caught my eye though was:

private const int WM_NCHITTEST = 0x0084;
private const int HTTRANSPARENT = (-1);

/// <summary>
/// Overrides the standard Window Procedure to ensure the
/// window is transparent to all mouse events.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="m">Windows message to process.</param>
protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
{
    if (m.Msg == WM_NCHITTEST)
    {
        m.Result = (IntPtr)HTTRANSPARENT;
    }
    else
    {
        base.WndProc(ref m);
    }
}

but it doesn't work for other threads... else it'd be very good solution :P

FocusedWolf15-Jun-08 18:48