Breaking Forms in to partial classes

[Rene]

VS 2005 uses the Partial Class & <form>.Designer .cs for its windows forms
generated code.

When upgrading from 2003 the project wizard did not break the form, it left
it the old way. I would like to split them. Who the heck do you do that?
Other than using the IDE and add a new Form, I was not able to insert the
partial Form class in the nice hierarchical way the IDE does it. How do you
do that?

Thanks.

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Re: Breaking Forms in to partial classes

Hi,

AFAIK there is no way of doing it. It would be nice though.

cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation



"Rene" <nospam@nospam. com> wrote in message
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> VS 2005 uses the Partial Class & <form>.Designer .cs for its windows forms
> generated code.
>
> When upgrading from 2003 the project wizard did not break the form, it
> left it the old way. I would like to split them. Who the heck do you do
> that? Other than using the IDE and add a new Form, I was not able to
> insert the partial Form class in the nice hierarchical way the IDE does
> it. How do you do that?
>
> Thanks.
>
>[/color]

[Richard Grimes]

Re: Breaking Forms in to partial classes

Rene wrote:[color=blue]
> VS 2005 uses the Partial Class & <form>.Designer .cs for its windows
> forms generated code.
>
> When upgrading from 2003 the project wizard did not break the form,
> it left it the old way. I would like to split them. Who the heck do
> you do that? Other than using the IDE and add a new Form, I was not
> able to insert the partial Form class in the nice hierarchical way
> the IDE does it. How do you do that?[/color]

Edit the csproj file by hand?

for example, for Form1.cs I find these entries:

<Compile Include="Form1. cs">
<Subtype>Form<S ubtype>
</Compile>
<Compile Include="Form1. Designer.cs">
<DependentUpon> Form1.cs</DependentUpon>
</Compile>

I took a VS2003 form file and separate it out into two partial classes
(putting InitializeCompo nent and Dispose in Form2.Designer. cs). Then
(with the solution closed) I copied the lines above and replaced Form1
with the name of my C# file(s) and everything worked.

Richard
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[Rene]

Re: Breaking Forms in to partial classes

Thanks Richard .

Hmmmm.... Now if I could only figure out why they decided to put the
InitializeCompo nent() in the From class instead of the Designer class......





"Richard Grimes" <richardg@mvps. org> wrote in message
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> Rene wrote:[color=green]
>> VS 2005 uses the Partial Class & <form>.Designer .cs for its windows
>> forms generated code.
>>
>> When upgrading from 2003 the project wizard did not break the form,
>> it left it the old way. I would like to split them. Who the heck do
>> you do that? Other than using the IDE and add a new Form, I was not
>> able to insert the partial Form class in the nice hierarchical way
>> the IDE does it. How do you do that?[/color]
>
> Edit the csproj file by hand?
>
> for example, for Form1.cs I find these entries:
>
> <Compile Include="Form1. cs">
> <Subtype>Form<S ubtype>
> </Compile>
> <Compile Include="Form1. Designer.cs">
> <DependentUpon> Form1.cs</DependentUpon>
> </Compile>
>
> I took a VS2003 form file and separate it out into two partial classes
> (putting InitializeCompo nent and Dispose in Form2.Designer. cs). Then (with
> the solution closed) I copied the lines above and replaced Form1 with the
> name of my C# file(s) and everything worked.
>
> Richard
> --
> Fusion Tutorial: http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/workshops/fusionWS.htm
> Security Tutorial:
> http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/workshops/securityWS.htm
>[/color]