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DXCore Services – Editor

October 27th, 2010 Comments off

The Editor service provides methods and properties for the IDE code editor. It is is similar to the Designer service.

Here are its methods:

Name	Description
Activate(Document)	Activates (gives focus to) or opens the form designer for the specified document.
Activate(Document, Boolean)	Activates (gives focus to) or opens the form designer for the specified document. Takes a boolean parameter that specifies whether to force opening a designer for the document if it is not found.
ShowDesigner	Shows the code view corresponding to the current designer.
ToggleCodeAndDesignerViews	Switches the view between code and designer views.

October 11th, 2010 Comments off

The Designer service provides methods for Windows Forms design-time support. It is similar to the Editor service.

Here they are:

Name	Description
Activate(Document)	Activates (gives focus to) or opens the form designer for the specified document.
Activate(Document, Boolean)	Activates (gives focus to) or opens the form designer for the specified document. Takes a boolean parameter that specifies whether to force opening a designer for the document if it is not found.
ShowCodeView	Shows the code view corresponding to the current designer.
ToggleCodeAndDesignerViews	Switches the view between code and designer views.