Default Properties For Controls

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I may just be being dense. I always use the same exact properties or a small variation of those on every control that I add of a certain type. Is there a way that you can make the control have those properties set your way by default? For instance if I add a text box control I always raise the font property to 10. It was be nice to just add the control and it be there.
I realize I could do this with copy and paste but it would be easier in my opinion to be able to just drag the controls from the toolbox.

Posted 1-Apr-11 6:34am

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Wendelius · Answer 1 · 2011-04-01T06:55:00

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One way to do this is to inherit your own controls from the standard controls and in the derived class handle the defaults etc.

If this is WinForms the following article could be useful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171834.aspx[^]

Posted 1-Apr-11 6:55am

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programmervb.netc++ 1-Apr-11 13:02pm

That makes sense I was just thinking that maybe there was something in options like this.
The reason I thought this is because of the options screen where you can tell the IDE which type of controls to default to based on datatype.
Thanks for your response btw.

Wendelius 1-Apr-11 14:04pm

You're welcome. Some development tools have such features (such as so called 4th generation tools) but in VS at least I'm not aware of such defaults.