We have developed our own custom designer. We have a custom control that
uses this designer.  We have everything working, except.........

How do we get the IDE to recognize a drag and drop from the toolbox such
that it generates code to add the control to the container's controls
collection?

Fo example, if I add a tabcontrol to a form, add 2 tabpages to it and then
drag a textbox onto the first tabpage, I see the following generated code:

<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub

InitializeComponent()

Me.TabControl1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TabControl

Me.TabPage1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TabPage

Me.TabPage2 = New System.Windows.Forms.TabPage

Me.TextBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

Me.TabControl1.SuspendLayout()

Me.TabPage1.SuspendLayout()

Me.SuspendLayout()

'

'TabControl1

'

Me.TabControl1.Controls.Add(Me.TabPage1)

Me.TabControl1.Controls.Add(Me.TabPage2)

Me.TabControl1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(72, 104)

Me.TabControl1.Name = "TabControl1"

Me.TabControl1.SelectedIndex = 0

Me.TabControl1.TabIndex = 0

'

'TabPage1

'

Me.TabPage1.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)

Me.TabPage1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(4, 22)

Me.TabPage1.Name = "TabPage1"

Me.TabPage1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(192, 74)

Me.TabPage1.TabIndex = 0

Me.TabPage1.Text = "TabPage1"

'

'TabPage2

'

Me.TabPage2.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(4, 22)

Me.TabPage2.Name = "TabPage2"

Me.TabPage2.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(192, 74)

Me.TabPage2.TabIndex = 1

Me.TabPage2.Text = "TabPage2"

'

'TextBox1

'

Me.TextBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(56, 24)

Me.TextBox1.Name = "TextBox1"

Me.TextBox1.TabIndex = 0

Me.TextBox1.Text = "TextBox1"

'

'Form1

'

Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)

Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 266)

Me.Controls.Add(Me.TabControl1)

Me.Name = "Form1"

Me.Text = "Form1"

Me.TabControl1.ResumeLayout(False)

Me.TabPage1.ResumeLayout(False)

Me.ResumeLayout(False)

End Sub

What in the designer generated this

   Me.TabPage1.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)

code?

Greg Robinson

Custom Data Systems, Inc.

www.cds-am.net