We’re doing the same thing and we work around by specializing a class first and derive from the specialized class. Using the code from your example this means something like: public partial class UserControl : UserControlDesignable { … } public class UserControlDesignable : BaseUserControl<Someclass> { } The designer is still acting flaky sometimes – but … Read more
It depends to the framework which is using the attribute. Combining attributes can be meaningful in order to the context which uses and interprets attributes. For example for those contexts which use .Net Type Description mechanisms you can customize the type description which .Net returns to consumers. It’s possible to provide custom metadata for types … Read more
In situations that it is not possible to simply click on design surface and select your control, you can select your control using either of these options: Document Outline Window You can open Document Outline Window using menu View → Other Windows → Document Outline Also using Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut. The Document Outline is most useful … Read more
How does the Windows Forms Designer work? When you open a Form in windows forms designer, the designer looks into the first class in the file. If the file has a Designer.cs containing the other partial part of the class, also includes it and tries to deserialize those file contents. In the process of deserialization … Read more
I like to blog about beginner articles for WPF, and there are a few in particular that may help you out: Understanding the change in mindset when switching from WinForms to WPF What is this “DataContext” you speak of? A Simple MVVM Example To summarize, the biggest difference between Winforms and WPF is that in … Read more
If you are using MVC then you can try the following code it is working for me : #region Download File ==> public ActionResult downloadfile(string Filename, string MIMEType) { try { string file_name = “/Files/EvidenceUploads/” + Filename; string contentType = “”; //Get the physical path to the file. string FilePath = Server.MapPath(file_name); string fileExt = … Read more