Hiding unwanted properties in custom controls

c# .net winforms gdi+
Joan Venge picture Joan Venge · Oct 7, 2009 · Viewed 23.1k times · Source

Is this the way to hide properties in derived controls?

public class NewButton : Button

...

[Browsable ( false )]
public new ContentAlignment TextAlign { get; set; }

Also this hides the property in the Properties window in the designer but how can I also hide the property in code?

Answer

Marc Gravell picture Marc Gravell · Oct 7, 2009

From code, the closest you can do it to hide it, and perhaps make it a pain to call directly - note that even when hidden it is callable, and none of this will work past a cast:

// about the closest you can do, but not really an answer
[Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
[Obsolete("just cast me to avoid all this hiding...", true)]
public new ContentAlignment TextAlign { get; set; }

Personally, I wouldn't bother. It isn't robust (just cast).

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