Commonality - TypeConverter, Arrays and ASP.NET

submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 16 days ago

winterdom.com — This should've been simple, but it took me a far longer time than I expected to get working correctly. Getting the basic design time work done wasn't too much of a problem; since the property type was an array and not a custom collection, the default editors did the right thing and offered a good design time experience out of the box. However, you still need to provide the designers and ASP.NET a way to store the property contents as an string, so that you can use markup to specify the value of the property. Time to write a TypeConverter! I went ahead and wrote a simple TypeConverter that would take a string and return an array of structs based on its contents, or take an array and return a string based on the values in it. Nothing fancy. read more...

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