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#May 14th @ 1:41 PM
JohnAskew
JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater
Could you list your pros/cons opinions, suggestions regarding the use of visual form inheritance with VS2005 Windows.Forms, and VS2008 ?

Thanks in advance.
#May 14th @ 2:15 PM
JohnAskew
JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

Personally, I differentiate between visual form inheritance with controls and without controls.

I should qualify my question as with controls.

Note: TableLayoutPanel is not supported in visual inheritance, and there are other issues... can you name them and more? If you are aware of them do they affect your decision on when and how to use visual inheritance?

Thanks.

#May 14th @ 2:57 PM
JohnAskew
JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=02f9cd99-08a7-4efa-92d0-99a53b91d302

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=3b3c31c2-dd75-477e-a664-3608f27a598b

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=4e5ab2bb-17ec-49f9-a48d-c19753c9ad7c

These illustrate why I differentiate between inheriting Forms with and without controls.

Forms that have no visual controls are FINE to inherit from, imho, those with any controls should not be candidates for inheritance -- without exception.

That's my opinion.

Thanks.

#May 14th @ 10:32 PM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
Trust me, I'm from the Internets
I don't use visual inheritance. It's a royal pain in the (I need to watch my language). I do create Form-classes derived from other Form-classes, but I never use the visual designer in those cases.
#May 15th @ 8:15 AM
JPeless
JPeless
I think it depends on how much you inherit and what not.  Definitely without controls is fine.

We use with controls also, but typically our application has many different views into database tables that are 1 of a few possible variations WRT the controls present, so we have a base form and several base "views".  When creating new windows we select which of those views on the data we will use.

This is VS2005.

Yes, it certainly isn't pain free but with time the pains are pretty much gone as the base forms have evolved and smoothed the pains.
#May 15th @ 8:54 AM
BlackTiger
BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.
(sarcasm here)

Next "HUGE PROBLEM": Why web form's designer in ASP.NET doesn't allows to modify properties of "master page"?

People! It's boring! Do everything on proper order. Don't be "porsche"...
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