I want to avoid placing an EditorAttribute on every instance of a certain type that I've written a custom UITypeEditor for.
I can't place an EditorAttribute on the type because I can't modify the source.
I have a reference to the only PropertyGrid instance that will be used.
Can I tell a PropertyGrid instance (or all instances) to use a custom UITypeEditor whenever it encounters a specific type?
Here is an MSDN article that provides are starting point on how to do this in .NET 2.0 or greater.
You can usually associate editors etc at runtime via TypeDescriptor.AddAttributes
. For example (the Bar
property should show with a "..." that displays "Editing!"):
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing.Design;
using System.Windows.Forms;
class Foo
{
public Foo() { Bar = new Bar(); }
public Bar Bar { get; set; }
}
class Bar
{
public string Value { get; set; }
}
class BarEditor : UITypeEditor
{
public override UITypeEditorEditStyle GetEditStyle(ITypeDescriptorContext context)
{
return UITypeEditorEditStyle.Modal;
}
public override object EditValue(ITypeDescriptorContext context, IServiceProvider provider, object value)
{
MessageBox.Show("Editing!");
return base.EditValue(context, provider, value);
}
}
static class Program
{
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
TypeDescriptor.AddAttributes(typeof(Bar),
new EditorAttribute(typeof(BarEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor)));
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.Run(new Form { Controls = { new PropertyGrid { SelectedObject = new Foo() } } });
}
}
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