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BrowseDialog subclass question

Edhy Rijo — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:10:05 GMT

Hi Trent,
I have a BrowseDialog (BD) class which I need to use in 2 forms showing different columns in the BrowseResultsLayout. All the inheritance is working find, I am able to drop an instance of my BD on each form and it works just fine, problem is that in a 2nd form I just need to show 3 columns instead of showing the 5 columns created in the class.

For the search fields there is no problem because I can set these up by code using the BD.SearchFields property and works find, but I have not find a way to remove columns from the instance in my form, is there a trick to do that? or would I be required to create the BD on each forms instead?

RE: BrowseDialog subclass question

Edhy Rijo — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:10:05 GMT

Thanks, I will check the designer file and test for the best event to remove the column not needed in this form.

RE: BrowseDialog subclass question

Trent L. Taylor — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:54:44 GMT

If the browses are the same with the exception of the results layout, then you will definitely want to have a single class that is inherited from the BD and then just programmatically modify the results. The results is a collection so you can just modify the collection in code. if you open the designer file of the BD class you created, you will see the BrowseResultsLayout property is just a collection and you can see what the designer has done. So it would just be a matter of removing these in an even prior to the BD being shown.