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FormViewDesigner::UsePreviewControl Property

Gets a value indicating whether the designer should use a temporary copy rather than the actual control that is associated with the designer to generate the design-time markup.

Namespace:  System.Web.UI.Design.WebControls
Assembly:  System.Design (in System.Design.dll)

protected:
virtual property bool UsePreviewControl {
	bool get () override;
}

Property Value

Type: System::Boolean
Always returns true.

Because the UsePreviewControl property is always true, the designer uses a View control that contains a copy of the associated FormView control to generate the design-time markup. The View control does not affect any persistence for the FormView. If the UsePreviewControl property has been overridden to return false, the designer will use the associated FormView itself to generate the design-time markup.

Notes to Inheritors:

You can override the UsePreviewControl property to return false or to determine its value based on whether the control is marked with a class level SupportsPreviewControlAttribute object. If the UsePreviewControl is not overridden, the FormView control ignores the SupportsPreviewControlAttribute.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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