IUIService

IUIService

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System. Windows .Forms.Design (system. windows .forms.dll)

interface

You can obtain this service from the design-time environment object hosting your designer, which will implement System.IServiceProvider (that's the Site for a Component ). It can be used to obtain various functions that you may require to present your designer's UI.

CanShowComponentEditor() determines whether the environment supports the display of a ComponentEditorForm for the specified component. You can then use ShowComponentEditor() to show the editor. ShowDialog() will display the specified Form modally, returning a System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult . ShowMessage( ) and ShowError() display a message in a message box, with the appropriate warning icon, and ShowToolWindow() displays the tool window with the specified Guid . (Some standard GUIDs can be found in the System.ComponentModel.Design.StandardToolWindows class).

You can also mark the UI as dirty (and therefore needing an update), with SetUIDirty() , and retrieve a System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window to use as the owner for your dialogs with the GetDialogOwnerWindow() method.

 public interface  IUIService  {  // Public Instance Properties  public IDictionary  Styles  {get; }  // Public Instance Methods  public bool  CanShowComponentEditor  (object  component  );    public IWin32Window  GetDialogOwnerWindow  ();    public void  SetUIDirty  ();    public bool  ShowComponentEditor  (object  component  , System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window  parent  );    public DialogResult  ShowDialog  (System.Windows.Forms.Form  form  );    public void  ShowError  (Exception  ex  );    public void  ShowError  (Exception  ex  , string  message  );    public void  ShowError  (string  message  );    public DialogResult  ShowMessage  (string  message  , string  caption  , System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons  buttons  );    public void  ShowMessage  (string  message  );    public void  ShowMessage  (string  message  , string  caption  );    public bool  ShowToolWindow  (Guid  toolWindow  ); }