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AviD - 04 Jan 2006 19:40 GMT

I've noticed that in .NET 2005 there's a Text UITypeEditor, for controls that
have the Text property (for example, the Label control). Is there a public
class for this editor, that I can use?

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"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" - 05 Jan 2006 01:19 GMT

Hi Avi,

Thanks for your post.

I am not sure which UITypeEditor you are referring, based on my experience,
the Text property(string type) of the controls in .Net2.0 will not
associate with any UITypeEditor. At least, I can confirm that Label.Text
property does not have any UITypeEditor with it.

So can you be a little more accurate about which UITypeEditor on which
Control's property you are interested in? Thanks

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Jeffrey Tan
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AviD - 05 Jan 2006 01:36 GMT

You can populate the Text property of the Label control (.NET 2.0) in two
ways: the old way, by typing the text into the PropertyGrid. But if you click
on the line you get a nice drop down box, into which you may enter the text,
even in a multine fashion.

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"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" - 05 Jan 2006 02:56 GMT

Hi Avi,

Thanks for your feedback.

Oh, yes, you are right. It seems that I am not familiar with the newer
version of Reflector. Actually, I usually use Reflector to view the source
code of .Net controls, while the original version of Reflector will show
the property attribute in the left panel, but the lastest updated version I
am current using is not showing the attributes in the left panel now.

With a little deeper insight into Label.Text property, yes, .Net2.0
associates MultilineStringEditor with this property. MultilineStringEditor
is a public avaiable FCL class, which Displays a dialog for editing
multi-line strings in design mode. So for String type property, you can
reuse this class like this:
[Editor(typeof(System.ComponentModel.Design.MultilineStringEditor),
typeof(UITypeEditor))]
public override string StringProp
{
get
{
return base.StringProp;
}
set
{
base.StringProp= value;
}
}

Hope it helps

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AviD - 05 Jan 2006 12:55 GMT

Thanks. This is exactly what I meant and needed.

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"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" - 06 Jan 2006 01:15 GMT

I am glad my reply can help you. If you need further help, please feel free
to tell me, thanks

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Jon Turner - 23 Jan 2006 17:49 GMT

How would that look in VB.NET

[Editor(typeof(System.ComponentModel.Design.MultilineStringEditor),
typeof(UITypeEditor))]

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AviD - 23 Jan 2006 18:27 GMT

< Editor(GetType(System.ComponentModel.Design.MultilineStringEditor),
GetType(UITypeEditor))> _
Public Property MyText() As String
etc.

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