I would like to provide a design-time editor for a proprietary file format
within VS.NET. I am shooting for an experience not unlike the SQL Reporting
Services designer (although MUCH less complex).
I can just make a standalone editor utility, but it would be ideal if my

I have a component an IntegerTextBox in which the user can use large
numbers. The defaultvalue of the "long MaxValue{get;set;}" property is
long.MaxValue.
The problem now is that the designer generates the number in the code in the

How can i do to persiste a collection in my WebCustom Control. Im using the
attributes
DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)
PersistenceMode(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty), but when run the Web

Can anyone tell me what control to use to allow a user to select a file
within a windows form?
I need to allow users to be able to browse to and select a text file
that will be read into a list box.

I have a modal winform centered in the middle of the screen and I dont want
people to move the window using the mouse.
Is there an easy way?

I am trying to create a GroupBox control with support for scrolling the inner
content and nicer looking borders. How do I go about positioning the
scrollbars so that they are inside of my drawn borders?
I am attempting to add a child Panel control at design time (from code is a

i?m doing a form to be Inherited, and inside it has a property that i
create.
that property is one class with several propertys ( simple ones integers and
strings )

would appreciate if somebody can point me to the right direction in writing
a designer surface for my document.
just like .resx, xml, xsd files have designers associated with them, i've
got a file type .xsx in which needs a designer for it.

I had this thought regarding defaultvalue attribute for properties of
controls and form inheritance.
For example, I have this boolean property for a control with a supplied
defaultvalue attribute of TRUE.  What if this particular control is declared

I'm updating a simmpe property of my control, using verbs. The value on the property grid is updated as requested. Yet, there's no update to the form's code. How do I force the system to generate the code?

I am having trouble with and looking for the proper syntax for accessing and
renaming MP3 files properties.
Example I can access the "Name" property of the file and I can rename the
file name to a new name (and do this in mass quantity at once). What I want

I've created a GridLayout control that derives from Panel.
The control works perfectly.
Now I want to allow an option to set some properties of an added control
based on where in the GridLayout control it is added (when dragged from the

I want my custom controls to have customer bitmaps but I can't get them to
work if I try to pull the icon from a resource file.
I know that I can add the icon to the project as an embedded resource then
put the attribute.

I have my own UITypeEditor and have overrident EditValue.  Is there any way
for me to prevent the PropertyValueChanged event of the PropertyGrid from
firing for my property?  I am doing some work inside the EditValue that may
mean the change the user made to the property is not ...

I have implemented a simple collection of objects using IList and put the
following attributes on the collection property.
[Category("Behavior")
,Browsable(true)