UrlPropertyAttribute question

[Brent Pranger]

I have developed a WebControl that has a "MyUrl" member property. I have
added the UrlPropertyAttribute attribute to the specific MyUrl member. Now,
when I edit the new element in the aspx page (Source view), the IDE (vs.net
2005 beta 1) intellisense will give me a "Pick Url..." option. However,
when I go to Design view and right-click, properties, the property does not
have the "..." button (in the property grid - for picking a URL) that I
would expect. Any ideas?

[UrlProperty()]
public String MyUrl {
get {
return (String)ViewState["MyUrl"];
}
set {
ViewState["MyUrl"] = value;
}
}

Thanks,
Brent

 

[Viksi]

add [Browsable(true)] before the property
-Viksi

 

[Brent Pranger]

Thanks for the reply.. However, the property is already showing up in the
designer, it just doesn't provide the [...] button to invoke a URL browser
dialog (even though I can invoke said dialog from source-view ("Pick Url").

Any other ideas? Perhaps it's just a bug in the vs.net beta (although other
controls with URL properties seem to work fine).

Brent

add [Browsable(true)] before the property
-Viksi

I have developed a WebControl that has a "MyUrl" member property. I have
added the UrlPropertyAttribute attribute to the specific MyUrl member.
Now,
when I edit the new element in the aspx page (Source view), the IDE
(vs.net
2005 beta 1) intellisense will give me a "Pick Url..." option. However,
when I go to Design view and right-click, properties, the property does
not
have the "..." button (in the property grid - for picking a URL) that I
would expect. Any ideas?

[UrlProperty()]
public String MyUrl {
get {
return (String)ViewState["MyUrl"];
}
set {
ViewState["MyUrl"] = value;
}
}

Thanks,
Brent

 

[Brent Pranger]

Well, I ended up downloading the Mono source code for the
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image class from www.mono-project.com to see how
they did it (for the ImageUrl property). As it turns out, you must specify
the EditorAttribute class so that Visual Studio knows which "Editor" to use
for that property. The attribute I needed was:

[Editor(typeof(System.Web.UI.Design.UrlEditor),
typeof(System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor))]

Problem solved.

Brent

Thanks for the reply.. However, the property is already showing up in the
designer, it just doesn't provide the [...] button to invoke a URL browser
dialog (even though I can invoke said dialog from source-view ("Pick
Url").

Any other ideas? Perhaps it's just a bug in the vs.net beta (although
other controls with URL properties seem to work fine).

Brent

add [Browsable(true)] before the property
-Viksi

I have developed a WebControl that has a "MyUrl" member property. I
have
added the UrlPropertyAttribute attribute to the specific MyUrl member.
Now,
when I edit the new element in the aspx page (Source view), the IDE
(vs.net
2005 beta 1) intellisense will give me a "Pick Url..." option. However,
when I go to Design view and right-click, properties, the property does
not
have the "..." button (in the property grid - for picking a URL) that I
would expect. Any ideas?

[UrlProperty()]
public String MyUrl {
get {
return (String)ViewState["MyUrl"];
}
set {
ViewState["MyUrl"] = value;
}
}

Thanks,
Brent