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!Subject: Re: Collection Editor vs. Item ID
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!Victor,
!
!I spent a little time with the IE WebControls, and I see that it's not just
!ToString() that does it. The fact is that, e.g., CssCollection also has a
!TypeConverter associated with it which, when asked to convert to "String",
!will call ToString.
!
!Also, CssCollectionEditor is an example of overriding
!CollectionEditor.GetItems and CollectionEditor.SetItems to pass a "proxy" to
!the base CollectionEditor. CssCollectionEditor translates from CssCollection
!to an array of CssAttribute instances. These simpler Name/Value objects are
!the ones with the overridden ToString method.
!
!As should be obvious from reading this newsgroup, the entire area of
!design-time support is one which could use a great deal better documentation
!and probably some framework improvements. If the documentation were better,
!more people might try to implement richer design-time support, leading to
!more complaints and therefore to more framework improvements...
!
!Thanks,
!John Saunders
[email protected]
!
!!> Hi John,
!>
!> Overriding ToString() should work ok. You could check the source code
!> available for MS WebControls, if I remember correctly they do this.
!>
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!> Victor Garcia Aprea
!> Microsoft MVP | ASP.NET
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!> !> > I'm using the standard CollectionEditor to allow design-time editing of
!a
!> > list of controls, all of the same type. I notice that when you enter a
!new
!> > item and specify its "ID" property, that row in the list takes on the
!name
!> > of the ID.
!> >
!> > But if you close and re-open the collection editor, you find that the
!> items
!> > now simply show their type.
!> >
!> > Is there a way to fix this? Overriding .ToString() doesn't seem to work.
!> > --
!> > John Saunders
!> > Internet Engineer
!> > (e-mail address removed)
!> >
!> >
!> >
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