"mgauthier" <u26833@uwe> wrote in message news:6681d095536c0@uwe...
>I have a user control called "View" with a nested panel that correctly
> accepts components at design time. I have derived another user control
> called
> "FunctionView" from View where I want to add more components at design
> time.
> However, the derived user control does not accept components when they are
> dragged onto it at design time. The derived user control does not seem to
> inherit the designer of the base class or its own designer is preventing
> components from being added. Can someone help me with this issue? Do I
> need
> to specify a designer again for the derived user control? I tried various
> ways of doing this without success.
>
> [Designer(typeof(ViewDesigner))]
> public partial class View : UserControl
> {
> public View()
> {
> InitializeComponent();
>
> }
>
> [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.
> Content)]
> public Panel ViewPanel
> {
> get
> {
> return viewPanel;
> }
> set
> {
> viewPanel = value;
> }
> }
> }
>
> public class ViewDesigner : ControlDesigner
> {
> public override void Initialize(IComponent comp)
> {
>
> base.Initialize(comp);
>
> View view = (View)comp;
>
> EnableDesignMode(view.ViewPanel, "ViewPanel");
>
> }
> }
>
> public partial class FunctionView: View
> {
> }
>