inheritence in form

Maverick

Hi everyone,

I am developing a windows based application in VS2005. I want all my form to be inherits from one of my class e.g.ParentClass but indeed the windows forms already inherits windows.forms.form class. what I have tried is that, I inherit "windows.forms.form" in "ParentClass" and all forms inherits my "ParentClass". But in this case when I view the design of the form IDE gives error. Please guide my in this regard.

Thanks and Regards

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Sam Hobbs16y ago
Accepted answer
Does ParentClass derive from Form? If I recall correctly, there is more than one place that you need to change the class that the form derives from. So in other words, if you begin with:
public partial class Form1 : Form

Then if I understand you, you want something such as:
public class ParentClass : Form
public partial class Form1 : ParentClass

Note that Form1 is a partial class; you need to do the "Form1 : ParentClass" in more than one place.

Now that I think about it, that is probably not your problem. Probably what is happening is that you have ParentClass defined near the top of the file, before the Form1 class, or whatever the form class is called. You just have to move the ParentClass so it is after the form class; do you understand?

If none of that helps, then please be more specific about the problem.
Sam Hobbs16y ago
Good that you figured it out.

I did not notice originally that you posted the question in the VB forum, so it is good that you figure it out anyway.
Maverick16y ago
Thx Sam,
your direction really helped :)
What i did is that i wrote
"Public Class Form1
Inherits Parent"
in both the class and designer as well.
in addition to that i also build the project. and its All fine now :)
Thanks