I am creating a windows forms component with properties that do NOT
have default values at design-time. The type of these properties are
the primitive types (ie bool, double, int etc).
public class MyComponent : Component

I am trying to migrate a VS 2003 custom control to VS 2005. There
exists a custom designer for this control in a separate assembly. The
designer is attached to the control via the Designer attribute using
only strings instead of the types.

I'm writing a component (inherited from Control) which is a graphic line
optionaly attached to a caption text (Caption property).
I would like to assign to the Caption property the name of the control, but,
when I have to do this? In the constructor the control does'nt has name ...

this looks like a strange behavior.
I have two properties in my custom control whose relative code gets produced
only when i resize manually (and only manually, i mean with the mouse on the
design surface) the control size.

Good morning
someone used the built-in Dotfuscator Community Edition and can give me some
suggestions and impressions?
Someone knows a good free/opensource obfuscator?

Good morning
this is the code I use in a container control designer to prevent that
another control (any) is copied directly inside him:
 Public Overloads Overrides Function CanParent(ByVal aControl As Control)

I've scanned the threads in this forum and I'm still stumped on a desig
time issue.  I'm relatively new to .Net Forms development so I may b
overlooking something simple.
I am trying to create a custom UserControl which contains anothe

I have a custom collection in my c# winform ui control called Items.
Items is a built in collection type that does not allow itself to be
replace (you can't 'set' the itemscollection in the control).
However, the contents of the Items collection is persisted through

I created a designer class (inherits from ControlDesigner).   In the
response of one of the
verbs, the designer opens a dialog box to configure the user control.
I would like in this dialog box, show to the user a list of all the form

I declare a toolbox bitmap with the attribute (ToolboxBitmapAttribute), but
the image does not appears in the toolbox.
I tried using typeof(Form) or a path to an icon or bitmap (16x16) but the
toolbox allways displays the default icon (the gears).

I have form setup to perform designing of a form.  There's a toolbox that
you can design from and everything.  However, one thing I can't figure out
how to do is manually add an item to be designed.  Let's say that I want to
add a TextBox to this.  How do I go about this?  Do I ...

Working with C# on Visual Studio 2003.
I have a form named "myFormClass" inherited of
System.Windows.Forms.Form, and other form inherited of myFormClass.
It happens that I reopen ; I am going to open a form of the inherited

In my project, which I develop under VS 2005, I have a form, on which I put
a FlashObject.
Everything is fine so far and works. Then I copied the project to a
different computer and open it with VS 2005 and the designer of this form

I'm writing a custom control and I face a strange problem since I have
the latest release of Visual C# express 2005.
When I drag the control from the toolbox to a form, I get this
exception:

I used the following code to draw a rectangle inside another rectangle (2
pixels smaller).
The inside rectangle results 1 pixel larger than the needed rectangle.
I had the same result with DrawPath when I was triyng to draw a