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Windows Control: The Domain Up-Down
 

Description

A spin button, also called an up-down control, is usually made to display a numeric value that can then be increased or decreased when the user clicks one of the buttons of the controls. In a Microsoft Windows typical application, if you wanted to deal with values other than numbers, there was some gymnastic code to write. Fortunately, the .NET Framework provides a special spin button that can hold and display values other numbers.

The .NET Framework's domain up-down control is a text-based object created from a class named DomainUpDown. Like NumericUpDown, the DomainUpDown class is derived from the UpDownBase class where it gets its primary functionality from.

Creating a Domain Up-Down Control

At design time, to get a domain up-down control, from the Toolbox, you can click the DomainUpDown button and click the form. To programmatically create a domain up-down control, declare a variable of type DomainUpDown, initialize it and add it to the Controls property of the container that will hold it. Here is an example:

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

public class Exercise : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
    DomainUpDown spnNames;

    public Exercise()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void InitializeComponent()
    {
        spnNames  = new DomainUpDown();
        
        Controls.Add(spnNames);
    }
}

public class Program
{
    static int Main()
    {
        System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(new Exercise());
        return 0;
    }
}

This would produce:

  
 
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