Hi!

Thanks for the explanation!


Sarosh

>>>>. I do use my own template forms, and that is easy to accomplish.
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>>Would you please show me an example of how it's done or point me somewhere which does?
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>>Thanks!
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>>Sarosh
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>Hi Sarosh.
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>All item templates are located in the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\SPECIFICLANGUAGE" folder. So, if you're doing VB.NET, it's going to be
>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\VisualBasic.
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>Each of the templates are held in a zip file. Are you using StrataFrame? If so, you can see that all StrataFrame templates start with SF_. If not, you will find a Form.zip in the 1033 subfolder. My suggestion is to open one of these up and see the contents of the file.
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>Make a copy of it and rename it to your choice. Extract the contents and create your own Form. Have a look at the "vstemplate" file that is in the .zip file. You might need to add a reference to your project.
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>After all done, zip them together again and have it back to the mentioned folder.
>Now you will need to install it. The easiest way is to call the devenv.exe with the /setup command. So get out of all VS instances and then run this:
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /setup

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>That will install the template into the Visual Studio environment. There are many books and articles on the web regarding this topic. This is just a very basic explanation and will require some effort on your part in order to actually implement this. It isn't hard, it is just learning to do it the first time and then it is all down hill after that.
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>Hope this helps.
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>Abraços.