Resolved Creating a Base form

[JuggaloBrotha]

I'm working on a simple base form in which all the other forms in the project will inherit. This base form only adds 5 properties (at the moment) dealing with painting a gradient background. The problem I'm facing right now is when I change a property on Form1 (the test form) and click run it doesn't show that change. I also checked the .designer.vb file and when I make a change it's not added to the code behind file, I'm at a loss right now to why.

Here's the test project while I'm building the thing. Gradient form is the base form, form1 simply inherits it.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

Removing the DesignerSerializationVisibility attribute did the trick, I'd forgotten to take it out when I copied the code from another project.

 

[newguy]

JB, I would have thought the class you were making would have had to inherit from the Form class. Like when I am making a new button I inherit from Button. Your paint sub paints Me, so it recognizes Me as the form since it inherited this custom class? I guess I just learned something new.

 

[JohnH]

JB, I would have thought the class you were making would have had to inherit from the Form class. Like when I am making a new button I inherit from Button. Your paint sub paints Me, so it recognizes Me as the form since it inherited this custom class? I guess I just learned something new.

GradientForm.Designer.vb:

Partial Class GradientForm
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

That is how the Designer generated code is organized since VB 2005. The user code simply specifies same class name:

Public Class GradientForm

 

[newguy]

I guess i didn't open all the classes. Well that makes sense. Thanks JohnH.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

Yea, this "class" is really basic right now, I'll be adding more to it when I get back to it. Eventually this form will become it's own project as a class library and I'll be able to drop it into existing projects and change all the inheritance(s) to it then changing a few properties will transform the look of the form.