Update User Controls automatically?

[vbbartlett]

Is there a way to automatically update user controls OR is there something I am doing wrong? I have created a user control I add one to my form and then a second. When I add the second the first is disabled like when you actually edit the user control. Do I have to compile the user control and then add it as a component to prevent this?

 

[zemp]

I compile the user controls into ActiveX controls (.ocx). Then add the control to your project. This way when a change is made all the ocx controls are updated.

zemp

 

[tsdragon]

Check the Visual Studio help files for activex controls. I've managed to add 5 or 6 occurrences of a control I was building to a form without any problems. I based most of what I was doing on the examples there.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[vbbartlett]

These are fairly complex controls that have their own draw methods which I think part of the, not problem, but behavior of such a beast.

 

[tsdragon]

The control I mention also had it's own draw methods (I believe most user controls do). That shouldn't affect the situation.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.