Foxite.COM Community Weblog – Neil Tonkin

okay, so we not really going to host .net in vfp but we can pinch some concepts from thier propertygrid.

in my last entry we began to discuss the integration of the extreme property grid activex control into our foxpro applications. i want to focus on supplementing the behaviour of the default data type support built into the grids fields. to recap, the following is typical of the code required to add a node and value to the control.

< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> 

#define xtpgridthemedefault       0     

#define xtpgridthemenativewinxp   1     

#define xtpgridthemeoffice2003    2     

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one of the nice things about visual studio .net is that with each release we get more and more great user interface components, and what’s even better is that with .net you can use most of these directly in your applications. take the propertygrid control, this provides a user interface for browsing the properties of an object and is used everywhere in visual studio by microsoft which is a tribute to its out-of-the-box functionality. now we all know that visual foxpro is a great product but it does tend to get left behind in the user-interface assets department which can… Continue reading →