fixed bugs and typos, added support for abstract classes in Designer

Author: Maxim Volkov

Maximus.Base.Library.Console/AbstractControlDescriptionProvider.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.ComponentModel;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Maximus.Base.Library.Console
+{
+  /// <summary>
+  /// https://stackoverflow.com/a/17661276/6763830
+  /// </summary>
+  /// <typeparam name="TAbstract"></typeparam>
+  /// <typeparam name="TBase"></typeparam>
+  public class AbstractControlDescriptionProvider<TAbstract, TBase> : TypeDescriptionProvider
+  {
+    public AbstractControlDescriptionProvider()
+        : base(TypeDescriptor.GetProvider(typeof(TAbstract)))
+    {
+    }
+
+    public override Type GetReflectionType(Type objectType, object instance)
+    {
+      if (objectType == typeof(TAbstract))
+        return typeof(TBase);
+
+      return base.GetReflectionType(objectType, instance);
+    }
+
+    public override object CreateInstance(IServiceProvider provider, Type objectType, Type[] argTypes, object[] args)
+    {
+      if (objectType == typeof(TAbstract))
+        objectType = typeof(TBase);
+
+      return base.CreateInstance(provider, objectType, argTypes, args);
+    }
+  }
+}

Maximus.Base.Library.Console/Grid View/SimpleGridViewDetailsPlane.cs

@@ -4,12 +4,15 @@
 using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.UI;
 using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Monitoring;
 using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.UI.Common;
+using System.ComponentModel;
+using Maximus.Base.Library.Console;
 
 namespace Maximus.Library.GridView
 {
   /// <summary>
   /// Base class to implement details plane for <seealso cref="SimpleGridViewWithDetails"/>
   /// </summary>
+  [TypeDescriptionProvider(typeof(AbstractControlDescriptionProvider<SimpleGridViewDetailsPlane, CachedDetailView<PartialMonitoringObject>>))]
   public abstract partial class SimpleGridViewDetailsPlane : CachedDetailView<PartialMonitoringObject>, IDisposable
   {
     public SimpleGridViewDetailsPlane() : base()
@@ -81,6 +84,6 @@ public override void OnCacheUpdated(PartialMonitoringObject monitoringObjectCont
     /// <summary>
     /// Status message shown when no item in the parent view selected. Override to change.
     /// </summary>
-    protected string NoItemSelectedMessage => "Select an Item to show Details Panel.";
+    protected virtual string NoItemSelectedMessage => "Select an Item to show Details Panel."; 
   }
 }

Maximus.Base.Library.Console/Grid View/SimpleGridViewWithDetails.cs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
+using System.ComponentModel;
 using System.ComponentModel.Design;
 using System.Drawing;
 using System.Globalization;
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Windows.Forms;
 
+using Maximus.Base.Library.Console;
 using Maximus.Library.SCOMId;
 
 using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common;
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ namespace Maximus.Library.GridView
   /// <summary>
   /// Base class to create object Grid View with details plane. No support for roles/hosted child object.
   /// </summary>
+  [TypeDescriptionProvider(typeof(AbstractControlDescriptionProvider<SimpleGridViewWithDetails, GridViewBase<InstanceState, StateQuery>>))]
   public abstract class SimpleGridViewWithDetails : GridViewBase<InstanceState, StateQuery>, IParentView
   {
     private readonly Dictionary<HealthState, Image> HealthStateImages;
@@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ protected override void AddColumns()
       GridControlImageTextColumn stateColumn = new GridControlImageTextColumn();
       stateColumn.CellContentsRequested += new EventHandler<GridControlImageTextColumn.ImageTextEventArgs>(StateCellContentsRequested);
       string str = $"{propertyTranslator.TargetType.Name}-*-{propertyTranslator.TargetType.Id}-*-Health";
-      AddColumn(stateColumn, ConsoleResources.GetString("State", CurrentCulture), new Field("Health", typeof(int), str, Field.SortInfos.Sortable | Field.SortInfos.Sort, 0), false);
+      AddColumn(stateColumn, ConsoleResources.GetString("State", CurrentCulture) ?? "State", new Field("Health", typeof(int), str, Field.SortInfos.Sortable | Field.SortInfos.Sort, 0), false);
 
       // Maintenance Mode
       DataGridViewColumn MaintenanceModeColumn = AddColumn(new GridControlImageTextColumn(
@@ -158,6 +161,7 @@ protected override void AddContextMenu(ContextMenuHelper contextMenu)
     {
       if (contextMenu != null)
       {
+        AddUserContextMenu(contextMenu);
         // these methods, OnCopyCommand and UpdateCopyCommandStatus, are defined in GridViewBase
         contextMenu.AddContextMenuItem(StandardCommands.Copy, OnCopyCommand, UpdateCopyCommandStatus);
         contextMenu.AddContextMenuSeparator();
@@ -210,7 +214,7 @@ public object SelectedItem
     {
       get
       {
-        if (Grid == null || Grid.SelectedRows == null || Grid.SelectedRows[0] == null)
+        if (Grid == null || Grid.SelectedRows == null || Grid.Rows == null || Grid.Rows.Count == 0 || Grid.SelectedRows[0] == null)
           return null;
 
         if (Grid.SelectedRows[0].Cells[0].Tag is GridDataItem tag)

Maximus.Base.Library.Console/Maximus.Base.Library.Console.csproj

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
     <Compile Include="..\Maximus.Base.Library.ManagedWorkflowBase\WellKnownIDs\SCOM.Windows.ID.cs">
       <Link>WellKnownIDs\SCOM.Windows.ID.cs</Link>
     </Compile>
+    <Compile Include="AbstractControlDescriptionProvider.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Class Instance Editor\BindableMonitoringObject.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Class Instance Editor\ObjectChangedEventArgs.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Class Instance Editor\SCOMClassInstanceAdapter.cs" />

Maximus.Base.Library.Console/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs

@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@
 // by using the '*' as shown below:
 // [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
 [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.1.0")] // to reference the library
-[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.1.10")] // increase when patch
+[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.1.15")] // increase when patch