Can't modify properties of a RadGridView inherited from a base form

[Man Sai]

Hi,

I have a base form with a RadPageView and one RadPageViewPage. I dropped two RadPanel and one RadGridView into the RadPageViewPage. I set the modifier property of all this five controls to public. And then I save this RadForm.

 I created a second RadForm and inherited this one from the previous one. In this second form I can see all the controls in the designer. I can modified the properties of the two RadPanels but I can't modified the properties of the RadGridView in the properties windows.

 What can I do in order to modified the properties of the RadGridView of the second form at design time ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dimitar]

Hi Man,

Thank you for writing.

This is a known issue of Windows Forms design-time in general. Some complex controls cannot be reliably edited and are therefore the visual inheritance is disabled. More information can be found in the following discussion: c# - DataGridView locked on an inherited UserControl.

I hope this will be useful.

Regards,
Dimitar
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[Man Sai]

Hi Dimitar,

Thanks for the clarification.  I thought it was something regarding RadGridView because I coud modify RadPanel's properties but not RadGridView's but it's a known issue of the designer.

I followed your link and found a workaround by creating a usercontrol:

    [System.ComponentModel.Designer(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.Design.ControlDesigner))]
    public class ucRadGridView : Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadGridView { }

I tried this and it seems to work fine. I can modify ucRadGridView's properties in the subclass form.

I guess the Designer attribute is forcing the designer to unlock this control at design time but I don't know if there are other side effect.

Would you recommend this workaround ?

Do you know of any other side effects or problems when using this workaround ?

Thanks,

Man Sai.​

 

[Dimitar]

Hi Man,

Thank you for writing back.

I have tested this and it appears that there are no issues when this is used. However, I cannot guarantee that it will work in all cases. Please note that generally using a grid in parent form is not a common case and perhaps you should consider adding your grids to the child forms (this shouldn't slow down the development process because usually a single form does not contain many grids). Another approach would be to leave the grid in the parent form and change its properties in the code behind.

I hope this information helps.

Regards,
Dimitar
Telerik

[Joshua]

I apologize for re-opening an older thread, but we are looking to replace Janus GridEx and I have been unable to get your workaround to work so far.  I have tried inheriting from the RadGridView but with no luck.  I am still unable to add columns to it through the designer.  I realize this is a corner case most people likely don't use, but our existing codebase uses it a ton so I was really hoping to be able to leverage existing code. (We have child forms that re-use the same shared columns but add their own)  Does anyone have a more complete example?

[Designer(typeof System.Windows.Forms.Design.ControlDesigner))]
public class InheritedRadGridView : RadGridView { }

[Dimitar]

Hi Joshua,

Thank you for writing.

I have tested this and it appears to work on my side. I have attached sample project. I only needed to change the column names because they were duplicated.  

I hope this will be useful. 

Regards,
Dimitar
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