which namespace is suitable for dynamically created buttons (to get their background colors and text colors)

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which namespace must use for the button text colors and background colors?(since the buttons are dynamically generated in the code i need the namespace for that)
either it is System.Drawing.Design or System.Drawing.Color??

when i use the "System.Drawing.Design" namespace it gives the error as
"Cannot implicitly convert type "string" to System.Drawing.Color"

and yet "System.Drawing.Color" is not available.

any one can please me!

Posted 26-May-11 5:59am

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Solution 2

This is not about name space. Name spaces do not provide or limit access, they only affect how we name the typed. Normally, you never need to use System.Drawing.Design. Your problem is that the color is nothing like string. You can get color from the predefined set as Naerling demonstrated or make if from integer ARGB components, see System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.color.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 26-May-11 11:02am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 26-May-11 14:34pm

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Sander Rossel 26-May-11 18:40pm

Thanks for your 5. Your answer complements mine perfectly.
I should have given you a vote of 1 for misspelling my name though. You forgot the 'e', so I took the liberty of correcting it. This time you are forgiven ;)
My 5 for the answer.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-May-11 20:32pm

Thank you very much.
As to the name -- this is my bad. I hate is someone misspell anyone's name, no matter what. Thanks for the fix.
--SA

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 26-May-11 18:41pm

Fived!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-May-11 20:33pm

Thank you, Manfred.
--SA

Solution 3

you can use static fields which is returning an object of Color class...
or
you can use one static method named FromArgb(int red,int green,int blue) of Color class to adjust your own color...

Button _temp = new Button();
_temp.Name = "yourButtonName";
_temp.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(255,0,0); // red color
_temp.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(0,255,0); // green color
this.Controls.Add(_temp);

Posted 26-May-11 18:59pm

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Sander Rossel · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-26T06:53:00

Solution 1

How about simply setting the Color Property of your Button...?

C#

Button btn = new Button();
btn.Location = //whatever location.
btn.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
this.Controls.Add(btn);
// etc.

Make sure you have the System.Drawing assembly referenced in your project.

Posted 26-May-11 6:53am

Sander Rossel

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-May-11 17:02pm

Correct, 5.
See just my notes to complement this answer.
--SA

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 26-May-11 18:40pm

d'accord! 5+

Sander Rossel 1-Jun-11 2:03am

Thanks :)