How to create a Property-window-like panel

[theusch]

I'm pretty much a .NET newbie, but am working through things OK.

I'd like to create a panel that looks a lot like the Properties window in Studio. A list of "property" names, and an associated field to enter/modify the value.

Example: I might have a list of products. When one is selected, I want to have this Property-like window have lines like

Name PROD1NAME
Cost 1.23
Color Green

etc.

I've seen the facility in other apps that look like they are .NET. I can't see how to coerce ListView or GridView or DataView or xxxView to create this.

Is there a ready-made control for this? Or can someone point me to an example of a "Property window" implementation?

Alphabetic/Categorized not important. C# FWIW. Thanks.

 

[theusch]

I may have found my answer in a search of these Forums: PropertyGrid.
http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?t=76280&highlight=property+window

Exploring further on how to use it...

 

[snarfblam]

You might want to look into something like this CodeProject article. You can get a lot of control over the property grid by using custom TypeDescriptors and PropertyDescriptors.

 

[theusch]

Thanks, snarfy. I'll dig into that, and see if it addresses the next issue that I have with using PropertyGrid. Say I have a property that is a small integer. No problem, then. But I want to limit the allowed values to, say, 1-32. Where do I do the limiting? In the set{}? So much to learn...

 

[snarfblam]

If an exception occurs in your property's set accessor, the property grid will show the user an error dialog with the exception's message. This means that in your set accessor you can check a value to make sure it is in range, and throw an exception with the appropriate message if the value is invalid or out of range.