Hi David,

Thanks for your post.

For your statement of "I have successfully created a custom forms designer
in VB.NET 2005", do you mean that you have implemented all the design-time
services of VS.net designer, such as IDesignerHost, etc..? I assume so.

Normally, to load and store the components on the designer, we should
implement a class which inherited from
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.DesignerLoader class. Also, we
should have a class implementing IDesignerSerializationManager interface.
Then we can just code DOM to serialize the components as code file.

Microsoft has released a KB for implementing a customized designer. In this
customized designer, it implemented the save and store function. Please
refer to it:
"HOW TO: Serialize Web Server Controls by Using Visual C# .NET"
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328547

Note: the serialization code is in SampleDesignerLoader.cs file.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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