Hello fellows
Im trying to make a simple "ButtonPlus" control. the main idea is to inherit from the button control and add some default property values (such as font,color,padding...)
No matter how i try, the WinForm always generates (or "serializes") the property value in the client forms
the whole point is to have minimal and clean code, not that every instance of the buttonPlus should have 5 lines of init code.
I want that the form designer should not generate any code for theses properties and be able to control them from the ButtonPlus code. In other words, if I change the ForeColor from red to blue only 1 single bingle line of code in the app should change.
heres my code so far. as you can see, ive tried using defaultvalue, reset , shouldserialize.... anything i was able to find on the web!
Public Class ButtonPlus
Inherits Button
Sub New()
'AutoSize = True
AutoSizeMode = Windows.Forms.AutoSizeMode.GrowAndShrink
Font = New System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 11.0!, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, CType(177, Byte))
Padding = New System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3)
Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left + AnchorStyles.Right + AnchorStyles.Top
ForeColor = Color.Aqua
End Sub
' _
'Public Overrides Property AutoSize() As Boolean
' Get
' Return MyBase.AutoSize
' End Get
' Set(ByVal value As Boolean)
' MyBase.AutoSize = value
' End Set
'End Property
Public Function ShouldSerializeAutoSize() As Boolean
Return False ' Not AutoSize = True
End Function
Public Function ShouldSerializeForeColor() As Boolean
Return False 'Not ForeColor = Color.Aqua
End Function
Public Overrides Sub ResetForeColor()
ForeColor = Color.Aqua
End Sub
End Class
Thank you very much for taking the time to look this over and answer
all the best
