I have a control that I wrote that acts as a layout manager so when I drop
controls onto it in the designer it will automatically move and resize them
based on certain properties.  This works fine.  However, there are times
that after I move some of the child controls around  manually, I'd like the
parent to re-lay them out according to its rules.  To do this I added a
designer, not to do anything graphical, but rather just to add a DesignVerb
to the properties window that labeled "Layout".

This works, except for one bad side effect.  The code with enabled is:

[Designer(typeof(MyDesigner))]
public class Layout :
 ScrollableControl, IContainerControl

and when disabled is:
//  [Designer(typeof(MyDesigner))]
public class Layout :
 ScrollableControl, IContainerControl

when it is enabled and I go to the form where I have placed a "Layout" on
the form, I can not longer see the grid "inside" of the control and I can't
select controls that are in it nor can I drop any new ones on it.

When I disabled the MyDesigner, then all works well, except I don't have the
DesignVerb available.

Does anyone know how to create a designer for a control such that you can
still add controls to it in the designer?

gkelly