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Today I was toying with the task of creating an extensible Windows Forms application (much like stock & bond quote systems are today). The client wanted to be able to select a particular real estate investor and have the ability to create any number of more detailed content areas on the main application form.
For example, selecting investor #1 on a Windows form with 6 content areas on it would yield 6 different view of this investor's information.
I thought of using a Windows Forms Panel control. I subclassed it and got everything up and running. Then it came time for me, as one of the developers in my organization, to sit down and design a panel that would provide the user with useful information.
You can't.
I double-clicked on my new class (which subclassed my new "InvestorPanel" Windows Forms control, which in turn subclassed the normal Panel control) and all I got was the component design surface. I wasn't able to precisely lay out labels, text boxes, and other controls on my new control.
Does anyone have an idea of how I can allow developers to visuall design Windows Forms controls in design time so that they don't have to add all their controls at run time?
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When I was still a youngster we'd visit my grandmother every year during the month of August. My aunt would fly in to visit from California during this time and without fail she'd always take us to the toy store and buy my sister, brother and I one toy each.
Toward the last couple of years of that tradition there was always one thing I had my eye on that was far too expensive (over $100). It was a radio-controlled airplane. I wanted that thing so bad I could taste it.
Today I finally purchased my first radio-controlled airplane and I just finished assembling it. It is raining here today and I hope that the skies will be clear tomorrow cuz I don't know how much longer I can wait to fly this bad boy.
I guess it is true that good things come to those who wait.
