form inheritance

Question

Hi I have one base form and a child one. In my base form I have some control like panels and buttons which are common for all my child forms. OK this works but the problem is that I can't change any property of the controls that are on the base form. I want to change position or size of this controls. I want to add new controls in my child forms and this controls to be in the panel control from base form. How to do this? Please help me ! P.S. I'm using SharpDevelop 3.0. P.P.S. I've tried to make all controls from base from as protected and now I can access them from child forms but in the Visual Designer they are still locked for me (I can't move them and all properties in the properties window are grayed for me).

zirano latt · Answer

Could you please check the access modifier of the controls that you want to modify are private? By default as generated by the IDE those controls encapsulated with private modifier. In order to modify them from the child form you will have to change access modifier to protected. Hope this works. All the best.