We have an assembly load problem with a custom root designer we have
constructed. We separated our designer classes and run-time classes into two
separate dlls, and put them in two separate directories upon installation.
Both of the directories are added to the registry at

I have developed a number of custom control components and given them a number
of design time properties. Serialisation works most of the time but sometimes
after building, certain properties will magically reset to their default values
... even though the code in the ...

I am developing a user control and for that
I need to query the component tray controls
to find out wether there are any controls
such as errorProvider added to the project.

How does one handle component's initialization when order is important.
Here is an example, my component can be used for databinding by others.
It is possible that DataGrid.DataSource=myComponent; is placed before my
component's

Anyone know how to determine if a control is a container control?
Panel, Form, GroupBox, ..
Some inherit from ScrollableControl but groupbox does not...
I want to know if a control was intended to be used as a container.

VS.NET calls lc.exe at build time to extract the licenses from the types in
the .licx file, but it doesn't behave the same way as if you called lc.exe
from the command line stand alone. The two .licenses files generated are
different even though the .licx file is the same.

I have a control with a property that I do not wish to be visible at design
time. There is a DesignTimeVisible attribute, but that works only on
classes - can't apply it to a property, which is what I really want.
So its ok for the property to be accessed at run time - just don't ...

Hi designers,
I've written my own designer following some articles postet here.
It works as expected, but I cannot run design time serialization.
I tried to get the right service this way:

we are using VS .NET 2003 to develop Windows Forms apps with C#... We are
amazed at how slow VS works, even on top-modern computers with 1GB RAM.
Drawing the form, creating new events, saving the project, everything feels
sluggish. Feels like I spend more time waiting than actually ...

I created a new collection class derived from CollectionBase and my
component has a property using this derived class...
Although I marked my derived class as [Serializable], VS.Net designer does
not serialize my component's property?

I am trying make a WYSIWYG Designer with Drag and drop. Something similar to
the ASP.NET desginer which dosent generate code but stores the information
to a database. But I am unable to find where should I start I am unable to
visualize or decide what should I start with.

I have a class that is a subclass from User Control and I would like to have
BackColor have a default value of ... oh lets say Color.White.
I noticed that even if I use ResetBackColor and ShouldSearlizeBackColor, it
still shows up as bold unless I actually override the property ...

I am trying to associate a simple custom designer with an equally simple
windows form. Here is what I have:
public class MyDesigner : DocumentDesigner {
public override DesignerVerbCollection Verbs {

I have created a custom collection and added it to my user control.
If I let the generic collection editor be used to edit the contents then it
works just fine and any newly created entries are persisted into code. But I
want to create my own collection editor and have used the ...

I created a windows control with one password property. I would like that the password appear as "*" when typed in property window.
I tryed to create a TypeEditor for the password property and overrides the paintValue method, but this doesn't work. I have to problems in result : ...