Breaking Forms in to partial classes

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Rene - 16 Dec 2005 06:32 GMT

VS 2005 uses the Partial Class & <form>.Designer.cs for its windows forms
generated code.

When upgrading from 2003 the project wizard did not break the form, it left
it the old way. I would like to split them. Who the heck do you do that?
Other than using the IDE and add a new Form, I was not able to insert the
partial Form class in the nice hierarchical way the IDE does it. How do you
do that?

Thanks.

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Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP ) - 16 Dec 2005 20:31 GMT

Hi,

AFAIK there is no way of doing it. It would be nice though.

cheers,

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> VS 2005 uses the Partial Class & <form>.Designer.cs for its windows forms
> generated code.
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> Thanks.

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Richard Grimes - 17 Dec 2005 21:29 GMT

> VS 2005 uses the Partial Class & <form>.Designer.cs for its windows
> forms generated code.
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> able to insert the partial Form class in the nice hierarchical way
> the IDE does it. How do you do that?

Edit the csproj file by hand?

for example, for Form1.cs I find these entries:

<Compile Include="Form1.cs">
<Subtype>Form<Subtype>
</Compile>
<Compile Include="Form1.Designer.cs">
<DependentUpon>Form1.cs</DependentUpon>
</Compile>

I took a VS2003 form file and separate it out into two partial classes
(putting InitializeComponent and Dispose in Form2.Designer.cs). Then
(with the solution closed) I copied the lines above and replaced Form1
with the name of my C# file(s) and everything worked.

Richard

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Rene - 17 Dec 2005 23:11 GMT

Thanks Richard .

Hmmmm.... Now if I could only figure out why they decided to put the
InitializeComponent() in the From class instead of the Designer class......

>> VS 2005 uses the Partial Class & <form>.Designer.cs for its windows
>> forms generated code.
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>
> Richard

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