How to add objects(which are already persent on the form) to Collection editor of Property ?

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I have made a custom property for my usercontrol which accepts an array of buttons.

Now when I click on that property of usercontrol in properties window, it shows a dialog box called as "Button Collection Editor" in which I can add or remove new instances of buttons.

But I want to have the list of buttons which are already existing on the form in this editor.

How can I do this ?

Thanks & regards

Siddharth

Posted 21-May-14 23:07pm

Sid_ScienceKid

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Ziee-M 22-May-14 7:51am

Hi, upvoted the question since its really intressting / original.
I am pretty sure its possible since the Property window of visual studio lists all the control present in the current form.
if you can manage to get all the control, then check the type of each one of them, then you will reach your goal.

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Ziee-M · Answer 1 · 2014-05-22T01:55:00

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Hi again,

the solution was pretty easy,

check thislink to get all the form control and select specific type of your list

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3419159/how-to-get-all-child-controls-of-a-windows-forms-form-of-a-specific-type-button[^]

Hope it helps

Posted 22-May-14 1:55am

Ziee-M

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Sid_ScienceKid 23-May-14 4:16am

Thanks for the idea Ziee, But the problem is that I want to use this method in the UITypeEditor class.
And it doesn't identify the current form or container.

Basically I have made a custom property for my usercontrol for which I want to have a checklistbox in its property window to select values for it.

So I am using UITypeEditor class to add the checklistbox to the property.

Simultaneously I want to populate this checklistbox with the number of same "usercontrol" available on the form.

in short I want to have link between usercontrols i.e in the property of usercontrol1, it should show instances of other usercontrols present on the form.

Its really challenging for me atleast. Please help If you have some idea to solve this.

Ziee-M 23-May-14 4:42am

Its not challenging only for you, its really challenging, i will do some more resarch.
Are you able to select a list of all the userControll but can't identify those who are exactly your target? this information may help

Sid_ScienceKid 23-May-14 5:47am

Hi Ziee, I have updated the solution again. If you can make a usercontrol with 1 Listbox and 1 Label and copy this code behind, you will get some better idea.

Then just build the solution and add this user control on the form of some new project and checkout the property "NoOfUserListOnForm" under Misc Category.

I have managed to achieve 70% of the solution i guess. But still it needs some improvements. I hope you can help me.