VS2005 MAY 2004 CTP: What Happened To My DefaultInstance?

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

VS2005

One of the coolest new features iI saw in the March 2004 CTP bits was the new "DefaultInstance" property in WinForms design. Well, I just installed the May 2004 CTP bits, and when I went to recompile my app, it threw an error. I go ti investigate, and the DefaultInstance property, and it's associated attribute, have been removed. What gives?!?!?? That was a great idea, and should have stayed in. Where did it go?

3 Comments

That, IMHO, was one of the worst features MS have ever come up with. VB6 is gone, let's leave it that way.

Tim Dawson - Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:38:00 PM

We've changed the way that default instances are built - they no longer work off of an attribute on the form, but are built implicitly for forms. So the feature is still there (sorry, Tim) but it's expressed in a different way.

Paul Vick - Monday, May 31, 2004 9:28:00 PM

What way is that, specifically?

Robert W. McLaws - Monday, May 31, 2004 9:33:00 PM

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