>>>I'm trying to make some headway using winforms. My first task is to subclass all the basic controls I expect to use so I can customize and inherit easily (OOP - right?).
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>>>Until now, all my .NET work has been in ASP.NET which I assumed was such a complete pain in the a$$ because of the web platform.
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>>>Now that I am back to Windows, and since VS2008 is so advanced, I'm sure I'm just overlooking the simple drag 'n drop way to subclass a Form so I can customize it and EASILY use it as the base for future applications.
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>>>In VFP, create a form, customize, add to a VCX, and tell VFP to use that class as the base for future forms.
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>>>I'm sure VS2008 is at least as easy - how do I do it?
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>>>FWIW I've managed (after several hours of reading various fragmented, incomplete, or inaccurate articles on the web) to subclass a number of controls and add them to the toolbox. The FORM is the problem now.
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>>Hi Bill.
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>>I guess you have added your base Form to your Base project, and added all functionality you want from it. Now, you could add another form to your Base project and call it MyForm, for example, and inherit it from your BaseForm, and then create any project specific features in it, if you want.
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>Hi,
>I wouldn't like the idea putting project specfic code in the DLL for the base classes - I'd be more inclined to have a seperate DLL for proect specific stuff. Just my 2c
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> After done that, go to the File Menu, Export Template, which will create a template out of your MyForm form, which will be available to you every time you go to a project and ask to Add a New Item.

Yep, sounds good to me... I was referring more to the project's base, just to get to the point on how to create a template out of it. It can be where it fits best.