Hi Donald:
I agree that between the 3, Option A is in the direction to go...
Except I I understand you, I don't see how you are doing all the parts...
Your sentence "pass the object to the custom controls" totally works in terms of
a constructor that accepts args...but the IDE creates its controls via a
constructor that takes no args...
In other words, your code would work if working with dynamically created objects
all the time -- but I don't see how to get it to work with controls that work in
the IDE.
A case in point:
XRecord.dll
I made a dll that basically converts DB connections into objects -- a custom
O/R, and instead of DBconnections, etc. moves around XRecord derived objects (ie
if from a table called projects, called XProjects...)
Nice dll.
XForm.dll
Now I have a usercontrol that could take an XProject and convert it to/from an
input form that that builts itself automatically from the field names -- with a
little help from Attributes to know what type of input field to use.
Fine.
Compiling XForm.dll:
But if I want to make that usercontrol into a servercontrol it is going to need
a public property called XRecord -- of type XRecord --which is coming from a
separate dll.
The IDE won't let me compile it without ref to XRecord.dll --
ok. Willing to accept that.
Add a ref to XRecord.dll and compile.
Add it To IDE:
But if I then point the IDE to the AutoForm.dll and ask it to add it to the
ToolBox -- it takes AutoForm.dll and stores a copy somewhere -- maybe in
c:\program files\vstudio\toolbox or sommething -- but leaves behind the
XRecord.dll that AutoForm.dll was built pointing too...
Results:
So the icon will show -- but when I try to instantiate such a control by
dragging it from the toolbox onto the work area it refuses as the control
builder cannot instantiate the control -- ref to XRecord cannot be resolved in
DesignTime...
a) Where do I copy XRecord.dll to? Would this solve the problem? And it's hell
on trying to work like this if working on debugging /rebuilding
XForm.dll/XRecord.dll all the time...
b) How -- if that is what you are suggesting -- do you get the IDE to accept
refs to XRecord in a constructor?
Best,
Sky
"Donald Welker" <Donald.WelkerN0$SPAM@N0$SPAM.navy.mil> wrote in message
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> OK, so you want several custom controls to use a shared common object that is
> rather large.
>
> Option A: Put the custom object in the parent's project and have the parent
> pass the object to the custom controls.
>
> Option B: Put the custom object in the GACL, which you say you can't do in
> which case you're stuck with your current solution, unless
>
> Option C: Write the shared code as a web service and call that, if you can
> get it to stand on its own.
>
> Personally I'm using Option A with some custom controls and it appears to be
> working for me.
>
> "S.Sigal" wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > Having trouble getting IDE to play nice/accept when designing Controls that
need
> > helper classes...
> >
> > I would like to compile controls as separate controls -- yet share some
common
> > 'helper' functions.
> >
> > How can I set up -- or get the equivalent workability of --
> >
> > CustomWebControl1\CustomWebControl1.sln
> > CustomWebControl2\CustomWebControl2.sln
> > CustomWebControl3\CustomWebControl3.sln
> > CustomCode\SharedCode.sln
> >
> > I tried this approach, with SharedCode being a Project Dependancy for each
of
> > the other three, and while that works in RunTime -- that fails in DesignTime
> > IDE. (It appears that when I add the Controls to the ToolBox the IDE copies
the
> > dlls pointed to -- but not any dependancies (!!!) -- to another directory
before
> > using it... In other words fails because it only has half of what it
needs).
> >
> > I understand that I could give SharedCode.dll a strong name and put it in
the
> > GACL -- and that might be possible on my computer -- but be impossible to do
> > with site where I am hosted.(no access to GACL).
> >
> >
> > Right now, I am cut/copying the helper functions in between assemblies...
which
> > is leading to it being hard to track down/correct bugs globally... And on
top of
> > that -- the helper functions are not small so massive code bloat.
> >
> > Anyone have an idea on how to make working on controls, without cut/pasting
code
> > all over the place?
> >
> > Thank you so much!
> > Sky
> >
> > PS:
> > (sorry for repost -- but help is urgently required...
> > Orig post at: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webcontro ls)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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