Comments on: Visual Inheritance using DataGridView

By: La (no) herencia visual del DataGridView - Dani PuntosNET

La (no) herencia visual del DataGridView - Dani PuntosNET — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:50:05 +0000

[...] tanto no pueden modificarse en 'design time'. Hay muchas quejas al respecto aquí, aquí, aquí, aquí y aquí. Y además está reportado a Microsoft [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:14:39 +0000

Genius

How do you guys come up with such solutions, wow.

By: tghoang

tghoang — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:02:53 +0000

oh, thank you very much.
However, after this, we lose some shortcut in designer smart tag of the DataGridView.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:34:14 +0000

Thanks, exactly what I needed!

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:04:49 +0000

Brilliant, thanks Brandon! I was just about to give up on inherting from my base form with a DataGridView on it when I found this post. You just made my life a lot easier…

By: Mohammad

Mohammad — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:49:02 +0000

I tried this in C# but it did not work.

Steps I tried:
1. added a user control.
2. added reference to System.Design
3. in designer source code I deleted every thing and inserted following code instead:

using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Backend.DataForms
{
[Designer(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.Design.ControlDesigner))]
public class ucInheritedDataGridView : DataGridView { }
}

4.putted the user control on an inherited form

it didn’t work even by restarting vs

I’m using vs2008 with .net framework 3.5

By: Brandon Ryan

Brandon Ryan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:40:11 +0000

Glad to hear it worked for you Paul. Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:40:45 +0000

I spoke to soon, I restarted Visual Studio and boom, it’s working now.

Cheers for the article.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:31:41 +0000

Humm this doesn’t work for me… not sure why though.

.Net 2.0,
Visual Studio 2008,

Attempting to do this with the DataGridView.

By: pmz

pmz — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:22:16 +0000

Dear Mr. Ryan,
First of all, THANK YOU, that’s a solution for problems – stupid VS (even 2008!) could not support the DataGridView in child form from the parent form.

I present my C++ code of your idea:
[Designer("System.Windows.Forms.Design.ControlDesigner, System.Windows.Forms.Design.DLL")]
public ref class NLCFormDataGridView : System::Windows::Forms::DataGridView {};

It works perfectly! Once again, thank you.