Is there a VS.NET addin that shows the hierarchy of a Form ?

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Uri Dor - 02 Jun 2004 16:45 GMT

Hi, everyone,
What I'm looking for is some addin that will show me this:

Form1
+ Panel1
- Panel2
+ Button1
+ Panel3
- TabControl1
- TabPage1
+ Button2
+ Label1
+ TabPage2

etc, etc.

I think this would save me a lot of annoyance, especially if I could
select the controls from this addin and manipulate their properties from
the properties tab. Otherwise selecting a specific control of finding
which container holds it is a mess.

I'm hoping someone has met with this problem before and has written some
solution (maybe there's such a feature in Whidbey?).

Thx
Uri

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Tim Wilson - 02 Jun 2004 16:15 GMT

I'm not sure if someone has already written an add-in for VS.Net 2002/2003
that does this. You might want to search GDN for that.
http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/usersamples/

But this feature is in the works for Whidbey.
http://www.windowsforms.net/WhidbeyFeatures/default.aspx?PageID=2&ItemID=5&Cat=D
esigner&tabindex=4

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> Hi, everyone,
> What I'm looking for is some addin that will show me this:
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> Thx
> Uri

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Emil Damian - 04 Jun 2004 13:29 GMT

Try this

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/viewUploads.aspx?id=6c2ca22f-86a5-
409b-973e-ce8543f5ae34

> Hi, everyone,
> What I'm looking for is some addin that will show me this:
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> Thx
> Uri

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Uri Dor - 07 Jun 2004 10:39 GMT

thanks, Emil,
I installed it, but how do I get to see it?
I turned it on in the add-in manager, specified it for startup too,
reopened VS.NET, reopened the designer on my form, but I have no clue
how to get the addin to display anything.

I'm using VS.NET 2003

thx

> Try this
>
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>>Thx
>>Uri

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"Ying-Shen Yu[MSFT]" - 08 Jun 2004 02:25 GMT

Hi Uri,

I opened the window from "View"->"Other windows"->"Control Outline".

Do you see the window?

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Ying-Shen Yu [MSFT]
Microsoft Community Support
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Uri Dor - 08 Jun 2004 09:00 GMT

I don't have such a menu option. There's View/Other Windows/Document
Outline, but that's probably not what you meant.
And the add-in is enabled.

Ying-Shen Yu[MSFT] wrote:

> Hi Uri,
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"Ying-Shen Yu[MSFT]" - 08 Jun 2004 08:52 GMT

Hi Uri,
It should be "Control Outline" not Document Outline,
Make sure you have checked the Startup option in the Add-in manager and
restart the IDE again.
If everything work fine, you should see a new item names "Control Outline"
in the "Other Windows" submenu.

You may find a brief help file for this plugin under its installed
directory, by default it is under
"C:\Program Files\PowerToys For Visual Studio .NET 2003\Control Outline
PowerToy\Help\"

If you still could not make it work, you may try contacting the members of
this add-in project.

Thanks!
Best regards,

Ying-Shen Yu [MSFT]
Microsoft Community Support
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