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Refracted Paladin
Refracted Paladin

Reputation: 12216

Apply property setting to all like controls in Project in Visual Studio

Lets say I have multiple DataGrids throughout my winform app and I want to set the BackColor on ALL of them to Purple in Visual Studio.

What is the fastest way of setting a Property for multiple items NOT located on the same Form?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 168

Answers (3)

V'rasana Oannes
V'rasana Oannes

Reputation: 644

Rather than search for "new DataGrid", why not search for ".BackColor =" which is the line you'll be changing (keeping in mind that other controls have a .BackColor property so don't just do a blind update).

Hope this helps,

Bill

Upvotes: 1

Scott Arrington
Scott Arrington

Reputation: 12503

Since you're asking about changing this at design time and not runtime, I would do a search on your whole solution for "new DataGrid" and change them in the designer.cs (or designer.vb) files. Other than that, I can't think of a quicker way other than maybe writing some sort of macro.

Upvotes: 2

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 4590

There is an Application.OpenForms property - you can loop over that list, then loop over the Controls property of each control recursively, modding those that match your type.

Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?

Upvotes: 2

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