Renaming/Replication of win forms

Hi,

Can anyone give me an idea of the best way to copy/replicate a win form?
Whenever I simply copy, I get problems with the class no longer being
recognized as a form.
Also, when renaming a form, is there any way to ensure that all the
relevant paths/references within the file are also changed? (e.g. I rename a
form, and I want the underlying class name to reflect that change)

Thanks in advance for any help...
-Yarin

RonBarone
Tue Nov 09 09:13:08 CST 2004

I have always copied and pasted the code into the new form. Change the
namespace and the possibly the name and recompile. A simple search and
replace can be done if you are concerned with other references, but that
shouldnt be much of a problem.

If the form isnt reconized as a new form, I just go into the code on the
inherits line and add a space and then remove the space, for some reason the
IDE then reconizes the the file as a "designable" form/usercontrol because it
must recheck the base class.

Hope this helps.

"Ykessler" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone give me an idea of the best way to copy/replicate a win form?
> Whenever I simply copy, I get problems with the class no longer being
> recognized as a form.
> Also, when renaming a form, is there any way to ensure that all the
> relevant paths/references within the file are also changed? (e.g. I rename a
> form, and I want the underlying class name to reflect that change)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help...
> -Yarin

ykessler
Fri Nov 12 10:25:02 CST 2004

Thanks Ron...

"Ron Barone" wrote:

> I have always copied and pasted the code into the new form. Change the
> namespace and the possibly the name and recompile. A simple search and
> replace can be done if you are concerned with other references, but that
> shouldnt be much of a problem.
>
> If the form isnt reconized as a new form, I just go into the code on the
> inherits line and add a space and then remove the space, for some reason the
> IDE then reconizes the the file as a "designable" form/usercontrol because it
> must recheck the base class.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> "Ykessler" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone give me an idea of the best way to copy/replicate a win form?
> > Whenever I simply copy, I get problems with the class no longer being
> > recognized as a form.
> > Also, when renaming a form, is there any way to ensure that all the
> > relevant paths/references within the file are also changed? (e.g. I rename a
> > form, and I want the underlying class name to reflect that change)
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help...
> > -Yarin