Hide the 'Name' property of an inherited control

Asked Oct 19 '18 at 02:37

Active Oct 19 '18 at 02:49

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Is it possible to hide the Name property in the ProeprtyGrid? I already hides all other property like Font, BackColor and other properties. I just want to show the Text property. Anyway, I am working on a end user form designer like visual studio designer. So i am only showing some property to the user. I inherited the control and i am using the following code to hide those property:

[Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public override Color BackColor { get; set; }

All works okay. It hides the property except for the two property named Locked and Name. I am using the same code as above but still showing in the property. Actually the property Name is showing twice.

[Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
private new string Name { get; set; }

[Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public bool Locked;

Or if it's not possible to hide the Name property, why does it displays the Name property twice?

edited Oct 19 '18 at 02:49

asked Oct 19 '18 at 02:37

Zhyke

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Why would you hide the name property? – ProgrammingLlama Oct 19 '18 at 02:38
I don't want the user to change/show the name of the control. I just want them to change the Text property. – Zhyke Oct 19 '18 at 02:39
Actually I just want it to hide in `PropertyGrid`. – Zhyke Oct 19 '18 at 02:45
which one is derived , which is a parent control ? – Z.R.T. Oct 19 '18 at 02:47
@Z.R.T. i'm using the `Label` as parent control. – Zhyke Oct 19 '18 at 02:50
@John yap. I just want user to change the display text. No need to rename. – Zhyke Oct 19 '18 at 02:51
@John I already handled in the code the name of the control. So no need for the user to change the name of the control. Just the display text. – Zhyke Oct 19 '18 at 02:57
The user does not have any access to the source code. As i mentioned, i already handled the name in the code. Thanks anyway. – Zhyke Oct 19 '18 at 03:05
lol. Did you read my post above? I am doing an end user form designer. This will use by user for personal customization. – Zhyke Oct 19 '18 at 03:12
Perhaps you should open with that. I missed that. – ProgrammingLlama Oct 19 '18 at 03:34
@Zhyke i think you can't hide field name from property grid. But you can make it read only, means name can be edited only in Form designer -> Properties Window – Z.R.T. Oct 19 '18 at 03:48
Maybe a wrapper like [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51611870/hide-some-properties-in-propertygrid) could help. – ProgrammingLlama Oct 19 '18 at 04:12

Hide the 'Name' property of an inherited control

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