Extending Smart Tags with Designer Actions in SF classes


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Charles R Hankey
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I am a VS/SF/.NET newbie and come from a VFP/VFE world of RAD builders and wizards.  I am in awe of the potential for this kind of stuff in Visual Studio. 

It would seem natural to have the SF base controls - textbox etc - have smart tags that immediately show the properties that will almost certainly have to be set every time they are dropped on a form - name, binding field, text etc.

I am delving into designer actions and how to implement them, but I thought it would be worth asking if anyone could be kind enough to walk me through this in a Strataframe context - how would I add binding field to the smart tag for all Strataframe textboxes ( and how will I do this in a way that future updates won't blow away my changes)

Seems like everyone working with SF a lot must have already thought of this.  Would suggest it as a framework enhancement.

TIA

Charles

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Trent Taylor
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Are you talking about in code or in the designer?
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I believe Charles is talking about the SF Smart Tags in the Designer.

So he would like to see the most common used properties like BindingField, BindingFormat, etc. in the Smart Tag in order to speed up the process of setting the objects.

If this task is easier than what will come in future versions, then I will also welcome this enhancement BigGrin

Edhy Rijo

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Yeah, that's what I thought that he was talking about...this is called a designer whereas a smart-tag is actually something different that you see within the code editor.
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BTW, Charles, I agree that this is a good idea.  It is something that we should probably do in the near term for the SF controls.
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