Inherited forms

James Alcroft

Hi. I have been developing for many years, in Delphi, and I am currently looking at changing to C#. I understand the concept on inherited forms, but I am struggling with it in C#.

I have created a DLL which contains a form. On this form is simply a BindingNavigator and a DataGridView. Everything works fine. When I add this form to another form in my project, all works. But why can't I add insert button onclick events without coding the assignment, ie :frm.navInsert.Click += NewContact and then have to create a method NewContact?

If I add the above line into the form.designer.cs, I then can't view the form in design mode. I'm not asking for much, it is really simple in Delphi, you click on the grid and you can change any property and create any event, but you can't click on the grid in C#, only the form.

Any help would be gratefully recieved.

Many thanks.

James

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James Alcroft18y ago
You can do this on the form itself, but not when you have added this form to another form. You can only get to the properties of the form itself and not the objects on the form. It's as if they are all private objects, but they are all public since I can access the objects through code.

James
Ryan Alford18y ago
in the designer view, click on the grid, open the Properties window(F4 in Visual Studio I believe), click on the Events button(little lightning bolt), then double-click on the Event that you want to code.