I am designing a user control that is made up of several constituent
controls (Panels to be precise).  Basically, my user control is made
up of 4 Panels that I am using to define a very specific layout.  The
goal is to add this "Layout Control" onto a form and then to drop
certain controls directly into the different Panels (for docking or
anchoring) during design time.  Unfortunately, when a control is
dropped onto my Layout Control, it doesn't properly dock it on the
immediately underlying Panel.  It docks the new control underneath the
Panels onto the user control area itself thus creating a secondary
visibility issue.

I have read several related posts on Google Groups and information on
Microsoft's website (under MSDN) regarding creating Designers to
support the design time implementation of user controls.  I am not
looking for a reference to more documentation on the issue; I have
been down that road and am still unable to produce the desired result.
I realize I could purchase a book on creating .NET controls from
Amazon and read it in its entirety, but I am hoping for a break here.

Any suggestions?  Better yet, any working code snippets that will help
me accomplish this?

Your help regarding this would be much appreciated.

Mario T. Lanza
Clarity Information Architecture, Inc.