Well, I have "playing" with controls and containers and when I try to make a generic ABM to be inherited and I see that the themedToolStrip / themedStatusStrip / xxxxStrip can´t be edited on the form that inherited the base form with that xxxxStrip, it´s a .Net behavior about collection stuff (If I was understand correctly some msdn googled pages).



I try to avoid this, in a test, I try to set the Browsedialog property of the themedMaintenanceToolstrip, to acoomplish this I finish with:



I created a "CustomthemedMaintenanceToolstrip" SF User Control, I dropped a themedMaintenanceToolstrip, I put a Public Property "BrowseDialog" and in get/set I put the private themedMaintenanceToolstrip



then when I drop my "CustomthemedMaintenanceToolstrip" on my base form, on the form that inherited of this base form I can set the "BrowseDialog" property of my "CustomthemedMaintenanceToolstrip" without problems.... with this approach I have to create some properties to edit each control of the themedMaintenanceToolstrip.



I not see the SF source code yet to explore how the themedMaintenanceToolstrip was created, but I not sure if I have the brain to understand it yet :/



I think that my question is a newbie one but I not sure about a lot of stuff [comin´ to my mind the GetType stuff to launch a form... aprox 8 hours to understand it and type.GetType ] and better I question now that I creating some stuff that some time ago I see that I created all of my stuff on a wrong way :/



It's the better way? it´s ok? thanks for the responses!



pd: I try to be clear on my questions but I´m speak in spanish, sorry for my grammar misses and mistakes

No, Fabian, you are doing it right.  In order to change the properties on an inherited control, you will have to set those properties through code.  So, if you inherit a form that already has a toolstrip, and you want to add new buttons to that toolstrip, you will need to create a method to add the new buttons and call that method.  You won't be able to add the new buttons through the designer.

So, yes, you're doing it correctly.

thank you so much

No problem, glad I could help.