inheritence in form

Question

Hi everyone I am developing a windows based application in VS2005. I want all my form to be inherits from one of my class e.g.ParentClass but indeed the windows forms already inherits windows.forms.form class. what I have tried is that I inherit windows.forms.form in ParentClass and all forms inherits my ParentClass. But in this case when I view the design of the form IDE gives error. Please guide my in this regard. Thanks and Regards

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Does ParentClass derive from Form? If I recall correctly there is more than one place that you need to change the class that the form derives from. So in other words if you begin with: public partial class Form1 : Form Then if I understand you you want something such as: public class ParentClass : Form public partial class Form1 : ParentClass Note that Form1 is a partial class; you need to do the Form1 : ParentClass in more than one place. Now that I think about it that is probably not your problem. Probably what is happening is that you have ParentClass defined near the top of the file before the Form1 class or whatever the form class is called. You just have to move the ParentClass so it is after the form class; do you understand? If none of that helps then please be more specific about the problem.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Good that you figured it out. I did not notice originally that you posted the question in the VB forum so it is good that you figure it out anyway.

Maverick · Answer

Thx Sam your direction really helped :) What i did is that i wrote Public Class Form1 Inherits Parent in both the class and designer as well. in addition to that i also build the project. and its All fine now :) Thanks