Don,

>It's sooooo easy in Visual Foxpro, I guess we're just spoiled in this respect of full visual development in the IDE...

You're mixing apples and oranges. VFP is Windows Forms developing. You just can't compare that to Web Forms ... they are, by definition and by necessity, totally different animals.

The visual inheritance you're talking about can easily be done in .NET ... in Windows Forms, just like VFP.

~~Bonnie




>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>As a VFP developer, we're blessed to have visual design of classes and then drop a copy on any other form (or container for that matter), and have the full visual presentation on that new form (or container).
>>>>
>>>>I have a simple class (ex: MyTextbox as if derived from a textbox or label control) with minor adjustments for testing.
>>>>
>>>>When I drag this control onto a web form, all I get is a simple block that looks like a button control and given the label of its base... ie: MyTextbox1
>>>>
>>>>How do I get .net to show me the visual designer of the class as I have it on my webform. I can't even move it to an absolute position on the form, it always appears relative to another control.
>>>>
>>>>At run-time, the proper control shows and functions as I would otherwise expect.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>For absolute position you should be in absolute positioning (default is flow layout-which is the recommended one, formerly it was absolute as I remember).
>>>Cetin
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>>Don,
>>
>>The answer to your first question is that this is the nature of a WebUserControl (ascx). If you want to see the fully rendered control in the designer, you must create a CustomControl. Unfortunately, there is no designer for a custom control so it has to be done purely in code.
>>
>>This may be a daunting task if you have recently arrived from the VFP world. It may be best to stick with the WebUserControl until you have absorbed a good amount of the inner workings of ASP.NET.
>
>ok, but any good reading suggestions that can show a full example of a custom textbox control on the how to's from the UI perspective, and showing up with valid settings in the properties sheet as any other control... and/or maybe a container class that has (for example) a label, and a textbox control... likewise, if I drag/drop onto a web form, I can look at the properties of the outer container, and the inner label and textbox respectively.
>
>It's sooooo easy in Visual Foxpro, I guess we're just spoiled in this respect of full visual development in the IDE...