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ContainerListView and TreeListView: Writing VS.NET design-surface compatible controls

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13 Jan 2003CPOL17 min read 836.4K   22.2K   339  
Learn how to properly integrate your custom .NET control into the Visual Studio .NET design environment with TypeConverters and UITypeEditors. The article includes two useful controls, a container ListView, and a complete, feature-loaded TreeListView.
using System;

namespace SynapticEffect.Forms
{
	/// <summary>
	/// IParentChildList provides functions to navigate a mutliply-linked
	/// list organized in parent-child format. The current node may navigate
	/// upwards to its parent node, forward and backwards in the current
	/// level, and down to the next level of its children.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IParentChildList
	{
		object ParentNode();

		object PreviousSibling();
		object NextSibling();

		object FirstChild();
		object NextChild();
		object PreviousChild();
		object LastChild();
	}
}

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Jon Rista has been programming since the age of 8 (first Pascal program), and has been a programmer since the age of 10 (first practical program). In the last 21 years, he has learned to love C++, embrace object orientation, and finally enjoy the freedom of C#. He knows over 10 programming languages, and vows that his most important skill in programming is creativity, even more so than logic. Jon works on large-scale enterprise systems design and implementation, and employs Design Patterns, C#, .NET, and SQL Server in his daily doings.

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