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Programmatically Hide Property in PropertyGrid


Using

<System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter(GetType(System.ComponentModel.ExpandableObjectConverter))> _

on the declaration of a class (which is a property of another class) that consists of a number properties.

I load an instance of this class with simply ...

PropertyGrid1.SelectedObject = oColumn

Obviously I don't want to manually build the propertygrid in code, I know how to do that.

But here's the problem. Depending on the value of a property, certain other properties should not be visible, as though I'd used the

<System.ComponentModel.Browsable(False)> _

attribute on the property declaration.

Is there anyway to do this programmatically, without having to handle all the building of the property grid manually>


Solution

  • if you were hoping for a gridItem.Hide() then, the answer is no. The only way to achieve that in the MS PropertyGrid is to dynamically publish your properties through the GetProperties method of a TypeConverter or custom type descriptor (that implements ICustomTypeDescriptor). I would try first with the TypeConverter (especially if the property values you want to check are at the same level), there is less coding to do.