Form-wide controls 1

[shatch]

Hi

I often see controls which are rendered at the bottom of the screen in VB.net (connections, datasets, imagelists) and was wondering if anyone knew how to make them?

I would search on Google but to be honest am not sure what to search for, i am sure someone here must have done this.

Thanks in advance

 

[dace]

What do you mean by make them? You can add them to the form from the toolbox. They'll show up at the bottom of the form during design-time, but those are just icons for easy clicking while coding. They won't render at runtime.

 

[earthandfire]

If you mean that you want to create your own controls of that type then when you start a new control project, include:

Inherits System.ComponentModel.Component

The control however, should be non-visual

Hope this helps

 

[shatch]

I mean how do you create new classes (or controls) from scratch which show up there.

Essentially i want to create a class which will allow the user to change properties during design time via properties rather than though the background code.

Thanks

 

[shatch]

THanks Earthandfire, that was exactly what i needed to know... I have never used components before.

 

[dace]

Ahh. Sorry, I completely misread the question