"Marcin Rzeznicki" <marcin.rzeznicki@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I am writing control which exposes design-time browsable property for
> setting gradient background of type LinearGradientBrush. I wanted to
> provide design-time support for creating brushes. Having delved into
> that topic it seemed to me that creating my own UITypeEditor showing
> modal form was the best way to achieve my goal. So I did. Everything
> worked fine till I realized that brush produced by my editor was not
> serialized into code. After quite long and unfruitfull search I do not
> see any way to do the serialization. I would like to implement code
> serializer (due to complicated setup of LinearGradientBrush it seems to
> me that it is impossible to achieve serialization by InstaceDescriptor
> way), yet I cannot attach it to LinearGradientBrush type as the
> attribute is of class level. Is there any way out of this maze? I 'd
> really appreciate any help, thank you in advance
>

> That class is not designed to be serialized. You will need to create your
> own class, as we did with VG.net.