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Tarscher - 22 Feb 2007 13:15 GMT

Hi all,

I have an application that has a form (MainForm) with a tabcontrol. I
want to populate the tabs (3 tabs) with other controls. I prefer to
put those controls (3 controls) in different classes since this allows
me to break up the UI in functional parts.

Momentarily I'm using usercontrols on each tab but this has it's
issues. Mainly the MainForm designer doesn't work anymore since I pass
parameters to the constructors of the usercontrols.

Someone can advice me another control?

Thanks
Stijn

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Bob Powell [MVP] - 22 Feb 2007 13:21 GMT

Don't pass parameters in the constructor of a user control and create
properties for your user controls that are used instead. In this manner
the properties may even be set at design time.

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> Hi all,
>
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> Thanks
> Stijn

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Tarscher - 22 Feb 2007 13:32 GMT

On 22 feb, 14:21, "Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net>
wrote:

> Don't pass parameters in the constructor of a user control and create
> properties for your user controls that are used instead. In this manner
[quoted text clipped - 28 lines]
> > Thanks
> > Stijn

Thanks for the fast reply.

I don't quite understand "create properties for your user controls
that are used instead". My user controls need a cennctionstring. The
connection string is stored in the app.config. How do I get the
connectionstring in the user control?

thanks

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Simon Harvey - 22 Feb 2007 16:59 GMT

> On 22 feb, 14:21, "Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net>
> wrote:
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>
> thanks

Do something like:

class MyControl{
    private string connectionString = null;

    // Property Accessor

    public string ConnectionString{
        get{
            return connectionString;
        }
        set{
            connectionString = value;
        }

    }

    // Note - no params
    public MyControl(){

    }
}

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