I noticed when overriding the Text property of the
System.Windows.Forms.UserControl that the Form.Designer file does not
reflect changes made via the property browser.  In other words, when you
override the Text property and then try to change it's value at design-time,

My custom composite control for the .NET Compact Framework will not serialize
the DesignTime DefaultValues I assign to properties.  For instance, VS
serializes '0' for ints and it serializes the first value for any enumeration
types.

I'm stumped with a design problem and hoping someone has an elegant
solution.  I have a DataAccess Layer which contains all my database access
functionality.  I would like to run all the processing requests that come
into the DataAccess Layer on a thread that is NOT the UI thread ...

I got a few heavy forms with a lot of controls. What is the easiest/fastest way to convert these to
"partial class" type (Separate Designer.cs file) ?
TIA
Best wishes

In VS2003 I could use the directive/flag DESIGN in my (C++) code to change
the desinger-behaviour. My code looks like this:
#ifdef DESIGN
... (c++ code during design-time)

I'm creating my own DataGridViewColumn class, and have added a string
property to it which should be settable via the Property designer.
I've gotten the property to show up, but even if i set a value, the
code generated sets the property to null, not the value I typed.

I am currently designing an extender which needs to save a file in the
project location. Any ideas on how I retrieve the project location at
designtime from a component?

I have decided upon my own localization scheme for my .NET 2.0
applications. The main reason for this, is that I do not want to use
satellite assemblies. There are several reasons for this, which I don't
want to go into now.

I'm looking for suggestions for touch screen form sizes. I'm trying to build
a hospitality touch screen application w/ Window forms. However I am getting
a bit flustered with choosing what size of the form I should have (base my
application on). I have been measuring various ...

if I add a ComboBox to a form via the designer and insert the text for
items, then these strings are fetched from the resource file:
// designer generated code
myComboBox.Items.AddRange(new object[]{