Inheriting a Form from an Abstract Class (and Making it Work in the Designer)

Arialdo Martini

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Visual Studio's and SharpDevelop's Designers can't directly edit Forms inherited from abstract classes. Several workarounds are possible. In this article, a simple and quite confortable one is presented.

abstractforms.zip
- AbstractForms
  - AbstractForm.cs
  - AbstractForm.Designer.cs
  - AbstractForm.resx
  - AbstractForms.csproj
  - AbstractForms.sln
  - AbstractForms.suo
  - AssemblyInfo.cs
  - DerivedForm.cs
  - DerivedForm.Designer.cs
  - DerivedForm.resx
  - Program.cs
codesnippets.zip
- AbstractForm.snippet
- ConditonalAbstractMethod.snippet

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Arialdo Martini

Software Developer

Italy

I'm a freelance software developer working on C#, PHP and CakePHP. At the moment I'm mainly working for an Italian software house on a quite big software based on .NET, PostGreSQL and NHibernate.

Inheriting a Form from an Abstract Class (and Making it Work in the Designer)

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