Questions tagged [visualdesigner]

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Writing a Visual Studio extension for a custom designer

So, I've got something I want to try out. The idea is to have a visual designer that works as a Visual Studio Extension, I want to be able to drag out event handlers and wire up behaviors, anyone who's ever played with the warcraft III script…
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Visual Designer for native Win32 Apps

i have been a C# developer for a long-time now so i have huge experience with Winforms. i wanted to start VC++ development so that i can write native apps. I know C++ very well. The problem is i have made test projects in VS2010, Win32 Application,…
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Can't find ASP.NET Design View for MonoDevelop

I installed MonoDevelop and want to use its design view editor. After a bit of browsing I came accross ASP.NET Visual Designer which is supposed to be a part of the IDE. I used the Ubuntu Software Center to install the MonoDevelop application, so I…
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Flow Builder (visual editor)

I want to build a Flow Builder for my clients to give them an entirely way to construct data inside my dashboard editor, inspired with manychat flow builder I have a simple app which has UI editor I have a need to build a workflow tool, allowing…
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Quirks of Visual Studio's property pane with WPF

Working in the visual designer of a WinForm project, when one selects an element the properties pane lists all the properties for that element. Selecting a property in the properties pane then displays a description for that property (the value of…
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Is using a custom TypeDescriptionProvider still the only way around using generic forms in the designer for VS2012?

I have forms that inherit from a generic base form and execute as expected however they dont display in the designer. Ive hunted around the net and found some questions here on SO and some blog articles that say to use a custom…
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Visual Studio 2010 and 11 beta Web Designer doesnt support CSS Table?

In visual studio 2010 and 11 beta if you have a table like this one:
(row 1 cell 1)
(row 1 cell…
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C# use the VisualDesigner for controls inherited from Tabs or Panels

Referring to VS2022 and WinForms apps and the Visual Designer. I would like to create a user control which inherits from a TabPage or Panel, but as soon as I change it from UserControl to TabPage or Panel I can no longer view it on the Visual…
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WPF Component Obscures Subcomponents in Designer

Some components like the viewbox are displayed in the visual designer as solid boxes. However, they can contain subcomponents. To view the subcomponents I comment out the viewbox. When I'm done I have to remove the comments to restore the…
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How to design or somehow get a custom WindowBar and grip

Like in Visual Studio, let's say the ToolBox, it has a blue draggable WindowBar like this: or like this: Is there a DLL to get one, or an easy way to make it?
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Providing metadata to the visual designer in VB.Net to align user controls

I'm creating a UserControl in Vb.Net. It consists of a TextBox and a button containing an ellipsis. When moving a normal TextBox around the visual designer, it is possible to align the TextBox with other controls. BUT, it is also possible to align…
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MS Dynamics 365 Business Process Flow Visual Designer Output

I have created a "project"-entity Business Process Flow in MS Dynamics 365 Visual Process Designer. How do I now output it into a live project interface which users would interact with? I get the sense this can either be done in Sales->…
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Designtime scope in winforms

I have a question about how to setup components in a winforms application so they can interact with each other. But I want to use the visual designer to set this up. What I have is a component called myDataBase and a component called…
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Creating a settings page for a VSTO custom ribbon add-in

I'm making a custom add-in for Outlook 2013/2016 and decided to implement it with a custom ribbon button. I've followed this guide which has been good so far :…
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