Gain Design-Time Power with Control Editors, Part 1 of 2
Learn how to support your controls with advanced visualization and property editors in the Properties window.
by Rod Stephens
August 17, 2007
ee if you can tell what's wrong with the following sequence: ND, MN, WI, SD, NE, KS, MO, IL, IN. Unless you have a PhD in North American geography, you may have trouble even realizing that there is a potential problem much less finding it. If you take a look at Figure 1, however, the problem is obvious. There's a gaping hole in this group of Midwestern states.
Figure 1. Selecting States: The StateSelector control makes problems in state selections obvious.
A few years ago, I worked on a fuel tax application for the state of Minnesota. Each year, a trucking company reports the states where it purchased fuel and the states where it actually drove. Then after a long series of Byzantine calculations, the company sends Minnesota a check for $4.17.
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ee if you can tell what's wrong with the following sequence: ND, MN, WI, SD, NE, KS, MO, IL, IN. Unless you have a PhD in North American geography, you may have trouble even realizing that there is a potential problem much less finding it. If you take a look at 
