I generate a property with "prop TAB TAB"
Cursor is positioned on the data type, and I change it normally
But, after that, I need to select its name, either with the mouse or using CTRL + Shift
Is there some faster way to automatically select property's name after autogenerating it with a shortcut (prop TAB TAB)?
The steps to do it are:
I generate a property with prop TAB TAB
Cursor is positioned on the data type, change the data type if needed
Hit TAB again to navigate to the property name and change it
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I have a Label over the TextBox for which I deleted the Text Property. Now it is not visible. How to bring it back to visibility?
I want to move the label control. That's why I need to see the control. Please tell me how to make it visible in the form.
You can select the Label from the top of the Properties Window in ComboBox.
After you select it, You can change the Location value for move it.
Other way is select Label on Document Outline Window and move it manually.
But easiest way is fill the Text value and move it ,then clear the Text again!
there a buttons called bring to front and send to back,
here how u can get them
unable to find "bring to front" and "send to back" option in visual studio 2013
When you're unable to find or select a control in the designer, you can still find it in the "Document Outline" window. To access this window in Visual Studio, go to:
View -> Other Windows -> "Document Outline" Window
I am working on a project in which I am using a property grid to display the properties of the selected control.
The Property Grid is fixed to the left edge of the container and in the rest of the space I have the form I am designing.
On clicking a control on the form, the specific control’s property is getting selected.
In the above figure, I have selected the textbox and the textbox’s properties get shown on the propertygrid.
Here if you observe, by default, the Name property is highlighted as well.
Is there some way to unselect this property programmatically?
I have tried some suggestions online but none have helped. I am not able to find find a way to remove all selections from the PropertyGrid, but its behaviour seem to be different form a DataGrid...
Here is why I need this...
On selecting a control, if a property in the property grid is selected, then the property is getting modified.
For example, If i cut the control using Ctrl + X, the selected value in property grid is getting cut which in some cases is forcing user to set the property before modifying anything on the form.
I have tried selecting multiple controls, but in that case alse the selected property seems to be persistent
Since PropertyGrid uses DefaultProperty to select a property in its grid, as an option you can set DefaultProperty attribute at run-time for your object to a non-browsable property, for example:
this.propertyGrid1.SelectedObject = null;
TypeDescriptor.AddAttributes(someControl,
new Attribute[] { new DefaultPropertyAttribute("Site") });
this.propertyGrid1.SelectedObject = someControl;
Well, what you are trying are hacks. It is never a good idea to do such hacks particularly if you are not the only person that use the software.
In your case, the focus should be on the designer while you interact with it. So if the user press Ctrl+X, the designer should respond to the keyboard and it should not have any effect on the property grid (as only one control can have the focus at the same time).
Thus it is up to you to make sure that your designer is focusable, that it has the focus when initially displayed, that it get the focus when you press the TAB key. Pressing the TAB key again should put the focus on the property grid so that user can interact with the grid without using the keyboard.
If you have more than these 2 controls, then obviously TAB should also stop at any appropriate controls. Also, it can be a good idea to have some direct shortcuts like F4 to (show and) activate the properties pane.
If you are not able to make it works, then the best compromise would be to use another windows for the properties grid. By using a distinct Tool windows for the properties, it should not respond to the keyboard when the main windows has the focus.
Here are some links that might help you:
Panel not getting focus
Control.Focus Method() — See Remarks section.
In any case, you should not prevent Ctrl+X to works as expected when the property grid has the focus and a property is selected. Users don't like software that do not follows UI conventions.
As a software developer, you should as much as possible ensure that your application follows standard behaviors. I recommend you that you take one or 2 extra days developing your software properly instead of doing hacks.
Often, compromise to gain a few days will never be fix and will be a pain for many years. Better to do it right from the start. Unselecting an item in the property grid is not an acceptable workaround. Your manager should not allows you to do that.
In Qt Designer, I can rename a variable from Designer by right-clicking on it and choosing Context Menu->Change objectName...
I want to change the default names such as dataGridView1, dataGridView2, etc. that C# assigns to new controls, but I couldn't find an equivalent property in the Properties box:
I looked for "Object Name", "Name" or something similar. How do I change it?
You can rename a control from Properties window. To do so, select the control and press F4 or right click and choose Properties. Then from toolbar of Properties window, select Properties button with wrench over paper icon. Then change (Name) property.
Also you can rename a control using Document Outline window. To to so, press Ctrl + Alt+ T to open Document Outline window. From the control tree select the control which you want and then press F2 or right click and choose Rename.
In Visual studio 2010 Is there any extension to search for controls in tool box? Is there any way to filter properties of a control? There are lots of properties for a control for e.g. (Name, AcceptsReturn, AcceptsTab, AccibleName, Text, Visible, Top, Left etc.). I want to go directly to "Visible" property of the control. Is there any short cut or any extension?
No there is nothing like that ..
If you have many control in your form and trying to set any specific property of all your controls like "Visible" property then you can select all your controls by holding shift or Ctrl key and change property value in property panel.
or if you want to change it 1 by 1 then
select your first control select property from property panel now type applicable property value
now on next control selection you need not to select property name again from property panel just type applicable property value it will change for respective control, dot net IDE will remember which property earlier you had selected.
You Can do it with Rapid Design
UI is created in VS 2008. I'm using C# .... I need to let the user move/focus between text fields from top to bottom by clicking tab button. How can i do it?
On the Layout toolbar (will normally show up if you're in Design View) click on the buttom on the most right (it's called tab order).
Now on every element on your designer will come up a little box with a number. Just click all your elements in the order you like and they will automatically be re-ordered.
If you like to do it manually, just take ho1 advice and change the property manually.
You just set up the TabIndex property properly, so that it's sequential from top to bottom. Then it'll work automatically and you won't need any code to move around the focus.
So in other words, set the top TextBox TabIndex to 1, the next one you set to 2 etc and then one at the bottom will have the highest number (of the textboxes, you probably want to have even higher indexes for any OK buttons and similar so that the user can jump to them after editing all the textboxes).
You can find more info about it here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.tabindex.aspx