DetailsViewDesigner.GetDesignTimeHtml Method (DesignerRegionCollection)
Assembly: System.Design (in system.design.dll)
public String GetDesignTimeHtml ( DesignerRegionCollection regions )
public override function GetDesignTimeHtml ( regions : DesignerRegionCollection ) : String
Not applicable.
Parameters
- regions
A DesignerRegionCollection to which to add definitions of the selectable and clickable regions in the design-time view of the control.
Return Value
A String containing the markup used to render the DetailsView at design time.The DetailsViewDesigner.GetDesignTimeHtml method calls the DetailsViewDesigner.GetDesignTimeHtml method to generate the markup for the design-time rendering of the DetailsView control. The DetailsViewDesigner.GetDesignTimeHtml method also populates regions with a DesignerRegion object for each clickable or selectable region of the design-time rendering.
For the DetailsView, the first cell in each row is selectable; all the cells in the rows are clickable.
Notes to Inheritors: If you override the GetDesignTimeHtml(DesignerRegionCollection) method, be sure to call the base method or the GetDesignTimeHtml overload because they eventually, through several override levels, call on the DetailsView control or a copy of the control to generate the markup.The following code example shows how to override the GetDesignTimeHtml method in a class that is inherited from the DetailsViewDesigner class to change the appearance of the DetailsView control at design time. The example adds a new first row to the grid to contain the Caption property, if the Caption is defined. If the BorderStyle property of the control that is derived from the DetailsView is the NotSet or None value, the GetDesignTimeHtml draws a blue dashed border around the control to make its extent more visible. It does not change the run-time appearance of the control.