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System.Windows.Forms.Design Namespace

 

The System.Windows.Forms.Design namespace contains classes that support design-time configuration and behavior for Windows Forms components. These classes consist of designer classes that provide support for Windows Forms components, a set of design-time services; UITypeEditor classes for configuring certain types of properties, and classes for importing ActiveX controls.

ClassDescription
System_CAPS_pubclassAnchorEditor

Provides a user interface for configuring an Anchor property.

System_CAPS_pubclassAxImporter

Imports ActiveX controls and generates a wrapper that can be accessed by a designer.

System_CAPS_pubclassAxParameterData

This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Represents a parameter of a method of a hosted ActiveX control.

System_CAPS_pubclassAxWrapperGen

This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Generates a wrapper for ActiveX controls for use in the design-time environment.

System_CAPS_pubclassBorderSidesEditor

Provides an editor for setting the ToolStripStatusLabel.BorderSides property.

System_CAPS_pubclassComponentDocumentDesigner

Base designer class for extending the design mode behavior of a root design document that supports nested components.

System_CAPS_pubclassComponentEditorForm

Provides a user interface for a WindowsFormsComponentEditor.

System_CAPS_pubclassComponentEditorPage

Provides a base implementation for a ComponentEditorPage.

System_CAPS_pubclassComponentTray

Provides behavior for the component tray of a designer.

System_CAPS_pubclassControlDesigner

Extends the design mode behavior of a Control.

System_CAPS_pubclassControlDesigner.ControlDesignerAccessibleObject
System_CAPS_pubclassDesignerOptions

Provides access to get and set option values for a designer.

System_CAPS_pubclassDockEditor

Provides a user interface for specifying a Dock property.

System_CAPS_pubclassDocumentDesigner

Base designer class for extending the design mode behavior of, and providing a root-level design mode view for, a Control that supports nested controls and should receive scroll messages.

System_CAPS_pubclassEventHandlerService

Provides a systematic way to manage event handlers for the current document.

System_CAPS_pubclassEventsTab

Provides a PropertyTab that can display events for selection and linking.

System_CAPS_pubclassFileNameEditor

Provides a user interface for selecting a file name.

System_CAPS_protclassFolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser

Represents a dialog box that allows the user to choose a folder. This class cannot be inherited.

System_CAPS_pubclassFolderNameEditor

Provides a user interface for choosing a folder from the file system.

System_CAPS_pubclassImageListCodeDomSerializer

Serializes string dictionaries.

System_CAPS_pubclassImageListImageEditor

Provides an editor that can perform default file searching for bitmap (.bmp) files.

System_CAPS_pubclassMaskDescriptor

Defines a set of members for derived classes to provide options for the masked text box UI type editor.

System_CAPS_pubclassMenuCommands

Defines a set of CommandID fields that each correspond to a command function provided by the host environment.

System_CAPS_pubclassAxImporter.Options

Represents a set of options for an AxImporter.

System_CAPS_pubclassParentControlDesigner

Extends the design mode behavior of a Control that supports nested controls.

System_CAPS_pubclassPropertyTab

Provides a base class for property tabs.

System_CAPS_pubclassScrollableControlDesigner

Base designer class for extending the design mode behavior of a Control which should receive scroll messages.

System_CAPS_pubclassShortcutKeysEditor

Provides an editor for picking shortcut keys.

System_CAPS_pubclassToolStripItemDesignerAvailabilityAttribute

Specifies which types a ToolStripItem can appear in. This class cannot be inherited.

System_CAPS_pubclassWindowsFormsComponentEditor

Provides a base class for editors that use a modal dialog to display a properties page similar to an ActiveX control's property page.

System_CAPS_pubclassWindowsFormsDesignerOptionService

Provides access to get and set option values for a Windows Forms designer.

StructureDescription
System_CAPS_pubstructureThemedScrollbarWindow

Represents a window and a value that indicates how its scrollbars should be themed when displayed in the Visual Studio designer.

InterfaceDescription
System_CAPS_pubinterfaceIContainsThemedScrollbarWindows

Defines a method for getting information about how the scrollbars of windows need to be themed when displayed in the Visual Studio designer.

System_CAPS_pubinterfaceIMenuEditorService

Provides access to the menu editing service.

System_CAPS_pubinterfaceAxImporter.IReferenceResolver

Provides methods to resolve references to ActiveX libraries, COM type libraries or assemblies, or managed assemblies.

System_CAPS_pubinterfaceIUIService

Enables interaction with the user interface of the development environment object that is hosting the designer.

System_CAPS_pubinterfaceIWindowsFormsEditorService

Provides an interface for a UITypeEditor to display Windows Forms or to display a control in a drop-down area from a property grid control in design mode.

EnumerationDescription
System_CAPS_protenumFolderNameEditor.FolderBrowserFolder

This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Defines identifiers used to indicate the root folder for a folder browser to initially browse to.

System_CAPS_protenumFolderNameEditor.FolderBrowserStyles

This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Defines identifiers used to specify behavior of a FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser.

System_CAPS_pubenumSelectionRules

Defines identifiers that are used to indicate selection rules for a component.

System_CAPS_pubenumThemedScrollbarMode

A value that indicates whether the scrollbars of a window and its children will be themed when displayed in the Visual Studio designer.

System_CAPS_pubenumToolStripItemDesignerAvailability

Specifies controls that are visible in the designer.

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