I am greating a gui designer and am using the Hosting DesignTime
controls example to get started.
I have created a couple of Designers.
The RootDesigner being inhertited from DocumentDesigner while the others

Currently when a OnDragDrop event fires in my control designer I use
ISelectionService to get the component that was dropped.  I know there has
to be a way to get the component out of the DragEventArgs.Data.GetData()
method but I have been unable to figure out how.  When you drop ...

how can i do debug to my own typeconverter ???
thks
JSB

I am coding window forms in C#.
My problem is this: I have created a "Check ListView" or a 'ListView' with
checkbox's. I have populated the it with my files from my folders, mps, txt,
etc. The ListView is in Details, with headers and an Icon.

I have a custom enum property Parts for my custom containercontrol declared
as below:
[Flags]
public enum Parts : int

Just to be sure ...
is it necessary to develop my own UITypeEditor if I want edited a property
define with Enum type in PropertyGrid during design time
For example : Control.Anchors  is editing with

Curently I am writing an IExtenderProvider which provides all controls a
custom Porperty to reference a Control object. This property is of
ComponentConverter as it TypeConverter to allow user to choose control
reference from a dropdown. I found out that when this property is set to ...

I have an application to draw and design different documents, that supports
linking and embedding of other documents (like, for instance, Corel Draw or
Word). Then, the user can print their designs "WYSIWYG", so I load the
external document inside an OLE document container control ...

I find myself running into the following situation writing C# programs
that have controls and components that have custom designers associated
with them:
1) I need to write code that uses non-redistributable assemblies (e.g.,

I am running into several situations where I need to determine the full
path to the "current" project file at design-time within VS.NET. For
example, I've written a custom component that, based on user input,
creates and adds a dataset definition file to it's project.

I have a UITypeEditor consisting of a set of owner-drawn buttons. I've
implemented it as a UserControl containing a Panel, to which I add the
buttons when the control is instantiated.
For the neatest appearance I would like to organize the buttons in rows and

I am making custom component in vb.net
I can add properties that show in property grid at design time  that is easy
!
1 -  but can any one tell me how do i add  a list box in property grid with

Originally the following code worked. I had 9 bitmaps loading as resources
and when I added bitmap 10 as an EmbeddedResource, the bitmap failed to load.
When I step through in the debugger, imageListBitMaps.Images.Count had a
value of 9. I suspect something with VS.NET is failed ...

I have been extending the following code sample -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/v
bnet08262002.asp
Somewhere along the line though, when the DataMember variable is
initialised in generated code, it's default value is null (not "" like

Working with the code at :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/v
bnet08262002.asp
I have shadowed the Items collection with my own class. When a
DataListViewItem (inherited from ListViewItem) is added to the