Viewing Available Choices

You can view the information your DTCs are publishing by using the Choice Inspector DTC. This DTC reads all of the choices published by DTCs that appear before it in the page. This includes choices provided by Visual InterDev.

After registering the Choice Inspector, you can add it to your document. It displays a list of choices and you can also filter the list.

To view published choices

  1. In Visual InterDev, add ChoiceInspector to the Toolbox.

How to   Right-click the Toolbox and choose Customize. On the Design-Time Controls tab, select ChoiceInspectorDTC, and choose OK.

  1. Add to the document the DTCs that you want to test.

  2. Add the Choice Inspector DTC to the bottom of your document. This DTC reads upstream choices only.

    The Choice Inspector displays all of the Choice objects and their properties that precede it in the document.

    Note   You can refresh the list of the Choice Inspector by using the Refresh command on the View menu.

For more information about designing or debugging your control, see Design Guidelines and Troubleshooting.