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?

Edhy Rijo

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.

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

Edhy Rijo