I've tried to add .ico, .png, and some other image files to ImageList
on design time, but the list doesn't get filled with image item.
Instead, it just keeps being blank and I get no error message. Am I
doing something wrong? This is happening on VS 2005 Beta 2.

Is there a way to have a Class that inherits from a control not show the
designer when double-clicked, but just show the code window?  The class
cannot be designed, so it doesnt do any good to show the designer.  I am
thinking there is probably an attribute for that, but I can't ...

I have a new custom control.  By default the custom control has the
design-time property GridSize.  I want my custom control to have it's own
GridSize property that works in both design time and in run time and be
browsable in design-time.  I used PostFilterProperties to get rid ...

Why is that when I loaded into VB a non-visual component written in C#.
Many Design time properties of the component are missing in the VB form?
Thanks,
Frankk

i have a funny error in the IDE but only in one form. :(
i have declare a Method like this "Private Sub MyTransGForms(ByVal sender As
Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)"
and i have an handler to it.

Does anyone know how to override the Name property of controls that I drag &
drop on a component class? When I drag and drop tables from the server
explorer on the designer of my component class I want the name to be
<table>DataAdapter instead of sqlDataAdapter1, sqlDataAdapter2, ...

I have paint code in the custom control's OnPaint method (which successfully
shows up at runtime) and paint code in the OnPaintAdornments method of the
designer (which successfully shows up on a control that I have dropped onto
a form).  What I haven't figured out yet is how do I ...

Hi
I have  created a treeview derived control which needs to perform some
initialization only at runtime (not at design time) because I am not able
to add it to a form due to he fact that some information required in the

We have developed our own custom designer. We have a custom control that
uses this designer.  We have everything working, except.........
How do we get the IDE to recognize a drag and drop from the toolbox such
that it generates code to add the control to the container's controls

I've made a custom listviewitem inherited from listviewitem, made a
custom collection of it, and made a custom listview that inherits from
my collection. I can see my new property ("Enabled") in the collection
editor but the code that the IDE generates does not reference my custom

I have a Windows Form running in 40 clients around the city, those apps are
communicating with a central SQLDB hosted in a hosting company (each one is
sending data, waiting for data comparisons and receiving the data back). I
have been using a Web Service to make the link ...

          I have created a simple usercontrol(using c#,the code is
added below).Now at designtime(Windows forms) i add this usercontrol
into a Panel(or any container Controls).Now i drag the user control
out of my Panel.(now the control is on the form).At this moment the

My goal is to build a non-visual custom component with a PropertyGrid like
the TableStyles property of the dataGrid as a Design Time data input tool.
I got as far as the following –
System.Collections.ArrayList rsource = new System.Collections.ArrayList();

I'm an experienced C++/C# developer, looking for a good book (C# or VB.NET)
with focus on WinForm custom controls (design time).
Thank you in advance.

how is it possible to serialize a collection into code similar as the
ControlCollection serialization? The problem what I see is that
CollectionCodeComSerializer is an internal class which cannot be overrided.
Thanks,