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PropertyGrid will use default editor for the properties which’s type is enum. This default editor does not allow multiple selections even the Enum has Flags attribute.

I have been prepared a new Editor for this kind of properties.

Our editor’s code is as follows;

EnableWindow function enables or disables the mouse and keyboard input to the specified control. You can use this function from user32.dll as the follows;

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, ExactSpelling = true)]
public static extern bool EnableWindow(HandleRef hWnd, bool enable);
  
[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, ExactSpelling = true)]
public static extern bool EnableWindow(IntPtr hWnd, boolenable);

Today I wrote a simple example which shows how we can use CollectionEditor of the .NET. In addition to this I also made a simple example which shows how to implement custom CollectionEditor which allows us to add more than one item to the collection.

Most of the programmers who uses Visual Studio .NET knows PropertyGrid which is the main control in the Properties Window of the Visual Studio.

If you have written any .NET components you must be familiar with Category and Description attributes. We use Category attribute to identify the property’s category and Description attribute is for the short description of that property. But because of the nature of Attributes in .NET we cannot pass any parameter to these attributes for Multi-language support.

[Category(Properties.Resources.MyCategory)]
[Description(Properties.Resources.MyDescription)]
public int MyProperty { … }

This kind of usage is not allowed for .NET, because we are only allowed to give constant values to the attributes constructor.  So how can we use these attributes as Multi-language?

If you are using Team Foundation Server with Visual Studio, it will be useful for you to integrate your projects bug system with the TFS Work Items system. You can write a simple module for your program which will handles the exceptions and collects needed information and send them to the TFS.

So how can we do something like that? First you have to write an error management module which will handles exceptions, errors, etc. and generates understandable information from them. After generating this information lastly you have to send this information to the TFS.