I am trying a custom editor dialog box (modal form)which will allow user to edit property values. But the property is shown faded in the properties window. And also the ellipsis button is not visible. Can anybody please assist me in resolving this issue. The code for each of the modules are given below

Code for the UserControl and UITypeEditor

namespace

WindowsApplication1

{

public partial class SSDBCombo : UserControl

{

string _stest = "";

public SSDBCombo()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

[

EditorAttribute(typeof(FormEditorCombo), typeof(UITypeEditor))]

[

BrowsableAttribute(true)]

public string StrTest

{

get

{

return _stest;

}

set

{

_stest =

value;

}

}

}

public abstract class FormEditorCombo : UITypeEditor

{

WindowsApplication1.

UserControlForm m_EditControl;

Boolean m_Escaped;

IWindowsFormsEditorService IEditiorService;

public override UITypeEditorEditStyle GetEditStyle(ITypeDescriptorContext context)

{

return UITypeEditorEditStyle.Modal;

}

public override object EditValue(ITypeDescriptorContext context, IServiceProvider provider, object value)

{

if (context != null && provider != null)

{

IEditiorService = (

IWindowsFormsEditorService)provider.GetService(typeof(IWindowsFormsEditorService));

if (IEditiorService != null)

{

string PropName = context.PropertyDescriptor.Name;

m_EditControl =

new UserControlForm();

if (m_EditControl != null)

{

IEditiorService.ShowDialog(m_EditControl);

m_EditControl.SText = value.ToString();

}

return m_EditControl.SText;

}

}

return base.EditValue(context, provider, value);

}

}

Remove "abstract" from the FormEditorCombo class declaration and it will work fine.

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Hans Passant.

Remove "abstract" from the FormEditorCombo class declaration and it will work fine.

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Hans Passant.

Thanks for quick response. And it works according to the above suggestion. Now I am trying to edit a value in the editor for and trying to set the value to the corresponding property. How to go about that? I am not finding any way to do that. Can anybody please help me out?

Amit:

It is best if you post a new topic. This one is marked as answered (as it should be because you found the answer to your original question) and people browsing the forum might skip this topic because it will show as answered.

Also note something: If you edit a post that contains code, the code gets all messed up. I am rather new here, so I have found that the only way of getting it right is to re-enter it (delete the "old" and replace with a fresh copy). Having the code well presented goes a very long way.

Cheers!

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MCP