design surface

After you add a LINQ to SQL file to your project, the empty design surface represents a DataContext ready to be configured.

Data Sources window onto a design surface in your project to create controls that are data-bound to the selected properties of your object.

Provides design-time support in a visual designer for a control where the design surface must use a preview of the associated control.

The methods pane is the pane along the side of the Entities pane (the main design surface).

Including parts of the control flow in a collapsible grouping construct to conserve space on the design surface.

In Integration Services, you can add annotations, or text labels, to a package on the design surface to make it self-documenting.

This method is called only once: when you first create the component by dragging it from the Toolbox to the design surface.

Property indicates the style properties of the frame around the editable region of the control on the design surface.

Visually, the design surface is a rectangular area with an overlay of grid dots that you can use to align report items on the layout.

By default the name of the relationship does not appear on the design surface.

On the design surface , you create an unnamed complex type by building up the content model in the design grid of an element .

Root designers typically coordinate with the rest of the designers on a design surface to provide this interface.

These items can then be dragged from the General tab and dropped into the code editor or onto the active design surface.

Class to set or examine client script elements that are contained in a Web Forms document on the design surface.

Instances created by a design-time tool, typically only a single instance of the service is created per design surface.

Object to which the control is bound is changed, the control is redrawn on the design surface.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the designer region can be selected by the user on the design surface.

A Rectangle representing the boundaries for the control on the design surface relative to the control, not the document.

Method forwards to any service provider that was given to the design surface manager at construction time.

Abstract class is parsed and a design-time version of the control is created on the design surface.

Notifies the design host that the area represented by the provided rectangle needs to be repainted on the design surface.

Method can be called to push changes made to the design surface down to the serializer.

These properties provide a frame for the control to be visibly rendered and selected on the design surface.

after you select the tab to view the window , it automatically retracts again as you select items on the design surface.

When a component is dropped onto the design surface, it needs to be added to the host's container.

Control is parsed and a design-time version of the control is created on the design surface.

Retrieves the coordinates of the rectangle representing the boundaries for the control as displayed on the design surface.

It is good practice to provide unique names to all components that you add to a design surface.

The actual implementation of this method is forwarded to the designer loader associated with design surface.

on the design surface , drag a box to the size you want the rectangle to be.

On the design surface of the report, drag a box to the size you want the text box to be.

The entities pane is the main design surface that displays the entity classes, associations, and inheritance hierarchies.

It also has an associated control designer that ensures that child controls are displayed on the design surface in a visual designer.

Drag a Label control from the Toolbox to the design surface and position it near the middle of the control.

If you want the new element to have global scope: drop the element on the design surface.

On the design surface, drag a box to the size you want the text box to be.

As long as our society values Style over Design, surface over substance, this situation is not going to improve.

Method to perform additional processing when the template editing mode changes for a control on the design surface.

A path annotation displays the name of the path source or the path name on the design surface of the Data Flow tab in SSIS Designer.

Property to indicate that the region can be selected by the user on the design surface.

The visual designer host uses the evaluated expression result to assign control property values that are rendered on the design surface.

To indicate that the template editing mode changed for a control on the design surface.

Moves the control up in increments of 8 on the design surface .

The service container that provides all services to designers contained within the design surface.

These components will be part of the design surface, but will not participate in serialization.

This lesson shows you how the windows work together to present a design surface that makes your work easier.

The designer loaded, but it does not offer a view compatible with this design surface.

You can still add components, which have no UI elements, to the design surface.

In addition, this will forward to any service provider that was given to the design surface at construction time.

Before you drag an item to a design surface to create a data-bound control, you can select which control to create.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the designer region is currently selected on the design surface.

These requirements are associated with the lens material, optical design, surface processing.

This notifies the design environment of the property change, enabling the design surface and PropertyGrid controls to update correctly.

A smart tag exposes key configurations directly on the design surface to enhance overall design-time productivity in Visual Studio.

Element to be anonymous, an additional element is added to the design surface, which is another relational table.

When a user selects a glyph that can be selected, the glyph changes appearance on the activity design surface.

If you want to create an attribute with global scope within the schema: drop the attribute on the design surface.

The design surface is decreased so that you can place report items on the report that will fit within the column.

Put user input focus on deeply nested elements that may be hard to select on the design surface itself.

Locking controls prevents them from being dragged to a new size or location on the design surface.

A smart tag anchor is a button that is displayed at the top-right edge of a component on the Windows Forms design surface.

A string containing markup text that renders to a placeholder on the design surface.

A collection of design surfaces that are currently hosted by the design surface manager.

Choose which control should be created when you drag an item to a design surface.

Select the next cell in the design surface (the first row and second column).

Gets a value indicating whether the designer loader is loading the design surface.

Forms Designer window: Provides the design surface for the application's user interface.

The second control differs only in that its associated designer can be resized on the design surface.

Event is raised by the designer host for certain actions on a control on the design surface.

Is an invisible layer between the design surface and the user.

Implementation within the design surface.

String is the caption that is displayed in the frame around the editable region of the control on the design surface.

Gets a value indicating whether the design surface is currently loaded.

After you add the new LINQ to SQL file to the project, the empty design surface opens, displaying two separate panes.

Selects the next control on the design surface.

The methods pane is the design surface that displays the DataContext methods that are mapped to stored procedures and functions.

Event is raised by the design host for certain actions on a control in the design surface.

Gets information about the container that hosts the current control when rendered on a design surface.

Adding annotations to the design surface helps make packages self-documenting.

To save your changes, right-click the design surface, and select Save from the pop-up menu.

Returns a copy of the associated control for viewing or rendering on the design surface.

The visual design surface is a container that hosts the form component (in Web Forms, the page component).

It verifies that the design surface has not already loaded.

To perform additional processing for template mode change events on controls in the design surface.

Retrieves the size of the designer region on the design surface.

Adding annotations to the design surface to make packages self-documenting.

Must be in the service container before the design surface loads.

An example of a local verb can be seen when you right-click a tab control on the design surface (see Figure 10 ).

Class to handle paint events for a control in the design surface.

In the Toolbox, expand Data Flow Destinations, and drag Flat File Destination onto the data flow design surface.

In the design surface, enter Stock symbol for the text in the first table cell (the first row and first column).

Select Place content here on the design surface, and change the text to My Stock List.

In many cases, double-clicking a component on the design surface also opens the code editor.

The design host requests HTML markup to render the associated control on the design surface.

The ContainerControlDesigner class provides a base designer class for controls that can be modified on the design surface.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to highlight the designer region on the design surface.

The Web Forms design surface offers this service and component designers use the service.

This property is generally the selection to use for UI interaction on the design surface.

Method to process events that are raised when the design host draws the control on the design surface.

When implemented, sets control state before rendering it on the design surface.

Double-click the Component Designer's design surface to view the code for this file, TempConvert3Class. H.

Features include a visual design surface and auto-generation of table of content files.

Begin by placing a text box control on the design surface of your form or report.

To create the Person class, click on the Class icon in the tool palette and draw a box on the design surface.

Typically, the design-time tool developer uses it when resetting a design surface.

To indicate that you clicked a region on the design surface.

The SSIS Designer opens the newly created package on the Control Flow design surface.

When implemented, gets the state from the control during use on the design surface.

A main body has a design surface formed with a groove.

Component appears on a separate design surface below the form.

ISelectionService deals with component selections on the design surface.

Alternatively, click the design surface to create a rectangle of fixed size.

Object when the template editing mode changes for the control on the design surface.

Methods to process those events for the control on the design surface.

Selects the previously selected control on the design surface.

Gets a value indicating whether a control is being used on a design surface.

In the Toolbox , expand Data Flow Sources , and then drag a Flat File Source onto the design surface of the Data Flow tab .

Objects to assist in positioning the control on a design surface.

Alternatively , click the design surface to create a sub report of fixed size .

The design surface is a visual area where you add controls to create a user interface.

Data Sources window and drag it onto a design surface to create a control that is bound to the properties in your object.

On the design surface of the Control Flow tab, double-click the precedence constraint.

When enabled, a Page Header or Page Footer section appears on the design surface.

You construct the data flows in a package on the design surface of the.

Because you are defining a new relational table, this causes a new element to appear on the design surface.

You can receive this error when you are creating your component or control on the design surface from the Toolbox.

Alternatively, click the design surface to create a list of fixed size.

You construct the data flow in a package on the design surface of the.

This property is used by designer hosts to add style sheet links to CSS files when rendering HTML to a design surface.

You construct the events in a package on the design surface of the.

Offers the design surface itself as a service.

Activate method, your event handler should activate the window for this design surface.

Object when a control is drawn on the design surface.

Gets a service in the design surface managers service container.

Choose this option to snap report items to the grid on the design surface.

Therefore, the DataContext is configured by using connection information from the first item dropped onto the design surface.

Gets the markup to represent an empty control on the design surface.

Describes the framework for adorners, which are special glyphs on the design surface.

From the Toolbox, drag a table report item to the design surface.

When the associated property is edited in the design surface, the designer host calls the EditValue method.

Increases the height of the control in increments of 8 on the design surface.

The control designer paints on the design surface.

An entity class is created and appears on the design surface.

Drag a Calculator component onto the design surface.

Reduces the width of the control in increments of 1 on the design surface .

The design surface at the specified index.

Contains a procedure that demonstrates how to visualize existing types on the design surface.

Type the grid spacing for the design surface.

Alternatively, click the design surface to create a subreport of fixed size.

To indicate a paint event on the control on the design surface.

Snaplines are a convenient way to align and position controls on a design surface.

Tab of the Toolbox to the design surface.

Adding controls to the design surface.

Control to the control design surface.

You can customize the whole diagram or the individual types on the design surface.

To add or change text in the Web page, just type on the design surface.

The index of the design surface to return.

In the Palette, and drop it on the design surface in the table cell for the first stock price.

The designer draws a control on the design surface.

View control has been created for display on the design surface.

In Layout view, drag a rectangle onto the design surface.

Tab of the Toolbox onto the design surface.

The following diagram shows an event handler on the design surface of the.

From the Toolbox, drag a ToolStrip control to the design surface.

Drag a MaskedTextBox from the Toolbox onto the user control's design surface.

Choose an object on the design surface to edit.

Event that is raised when the template mode changes for a control on the design surface.

What we have accomplished so far doesn't look like much, but it is very different from dragging a GridView onto a design surface.

Drag a DataGridView from the Toolbox onto the user control's design surface.

The design surface is editable.

Choose this option to show the grid on the design surface.

Indicates that a view event was raised for drawing a control on the design surface.

Enter text values for the stock symbols you want to include in the table, so the design surface looks something like Figure 1. 16.

Control onto the design surface.

A text block appears on the design surface of the tab.

Place focus onto the design surface.

You click a region on the design surface.

Object onto the design surface.

The Microsoft Office Word template (. Dot) node in Solution Explorer does not have a code file or a design surface.

Drag an instance of DemoMarqueeControl onto the Form1 design surface.

The DataContext is configured with connection information provided by the first item that is dragged onto the design surface.

Click the link on the design surface of the.

In the Palette, and drop it on the design surface somewhere before the table.

To the plan design surface in order to define the tasks that will be performed.

The design surface should now look something like Figure 1. 21.

Gets the design surface that is gaining activation.

Your design surface should now look something like Figure 1. 22, and the Web page source should look like Listing 1. 2.

Double-click the design surface in an empty area to open the dataset's partial class file in the code editor .

On the design surface of the Control Flow tab, right-click the task, and then click Edit on the context menu to open the task editor.

When overridden in a derived class , creates and returns an instance of the given data source, and adds it to the design surface .

After the task is on the design surface, double-click the task to open the editor.

When you open the workbook in the designer, there is no design surface.

This method enables the service implementer to perform custom actions when a data source is added to the design surface.

It appears on the design surface as a plain gray box showing the name of the class and the ID of the specific

It appears on the design surface as a plain gray box showing the name of the class and the ID of the current

Invalidates the control as displayed on the design surface and causes the design host to call the

When overridden in a derived class, notifies the service that a component representing a data source was added to the design surface.

The design surface changes when you define a data source connection.

If the designer region can be selected by the user on the design surface; otherwise,

To see HTML design surface tags in Design view

Switch from a control's property sheet in form or report Design view to the design surface without changing the control focus

This interface also allows external components to initiate a reload of the design surface by calling

Objects appear as lines on the design surface connecting the parent and child tables to a

In SSIS Designer, to set the scope to the package, click anywhere on the design surface of the

When you add a data viewer to a path, SSIS Designer adds a data viewer icon to the design surface of the

If your class uses external resources but will not be used on a design surface, implement

To set the scope to the package, click anywhere on the design surface of the

SSIS Designer includes two types of progress reporting: color-coding on the design surface of the

If the designer loader is currently loading the design surface; otherwise,

Called when the control designer draws the associated control on the design surface, if the

If the design surface is currently loaded; otherwise,

When the associated property is edited on the design surface, the designer host calls the

On the left, the design surface in the middle, and the new

Control visual aspects of the design surface (layout) and persist changes

To position a control on the design surface of the Windows Forms Designer

Creating Objects on the Design Surface

The design host repaints the client region on the design surface,

Move focus to the design surface

True, if a control has been created for viewing on the design surface; otherwise,