The ToolBarButton class has an ImageIndex property which presents a drop
down combo with the images from the parent ToolBar's ImageList.
I have a component with an ImageList and I want my ImageIndex property to
behave the same way as the ToolBarButton.

I'm working on a component (with a custom designer) where the designer verbs
change based on what a property is set to. The problem is,... it appears
that the designer keeps its own cache of the verbs such that when I change
the property of my component, I have to click off the ...

I have a series of user controls which internally contain datasets.  At
run-time, these datasets are loaded from XML documents in the following
manner:
private string _xmlPath = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["XML.Path"];

Is it possible to show a border around my custom control similar to the
borders that I can set around a PictureBox through the BorderStyle property?
Regards, Teis

I have a Component an gave it a  Property "Name".
I declared it like this:
<DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible),
Browsable(False)> _

Hello Newsgroup
I have a strange situation with a VS.net Add-In that uses the
XmlSerializer class for deserialization. As the problem seems to be the
same for the Add-In as for designers, I thought I might be lucky here...

I have a collection class that is derived from CollectionBase. There is a property on my *Form Class* of type= MyCollection class. This form property has the following attributes:
<Editor(GetType(System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor), GetType(System.Drawing.Design ...

I want to know if it's possible to have a component what
visibility at design time depends on how it's being created,
for example, if the component is manually dropped by the
user to a windows forms it should be displayed but if it's

I've searched through previous posts about implementing this method to
customize the child controls being dragged into a custom container control
and I do have some questions.
The CanParent method is only executed if the control dragged into the

there are a lot of samples for designer classes.  Some are storing internal
references to the services (componentchangeservice, selectionservice, etc.)
on the designer classes, some are getting them when needed.  Are there
disadvantages on storing private references to such services ...

Hi Friends,
Is there any similar framework dlls for gdi32.dll, used32.dll.
I want to use following functions
1) GetPixel

I would like to use the property grid to set events for a component at
runtime, however I want to show a ... button for the events instead of a
drop-down list.
I have an implementation of IEventBindingService which works correctly (I

Actually have try to redefine the BackColor and ForeColor of the Control
class using the key 'new' with the DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content
attrubute. Well, the desinger not serialize this property.
Any ideas about?

It's a simple question, but after hours of searching I've come up with
nothing! All I want to do is use the nice custom UI editor feature in
PropertyGrid when it isn't hosted in Visual Studio.
There are lots of examples out there showing how to get the

I need an event that fires ONLY when the user has JUST dragged a component
on.
I tried creating my own ComponentDesigner class to deal with some events.
I tried handling the ComponentAdded event.  ComponentAdded fires whenever