Can someone please point me to a good article/tutorial on how to build design-time programming into my custom control?

I am building a custom gridviewcontrol that includes a contextmenustrip for formatting.  The control works great, BUT my custom properties don't initially load the design-time-set properties when it runs.

Changing the properties after the initial load works fine, but the design time settings are ignored unless I store the result in a native property of the base class.

Any help would be grealy appreciated.

Sincerely,
Glen Wolinsky

Hi Glen,

The two articles written by Michael Weinhardt and Chris Sells helped me a lot when I was learning how to make my control design-time friendly; maybe you could try these two articles too:

First part:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/04/Design-TimeControls/default.aspx

Second part:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/05/Design-TimeControls/default.aspx


Good luck,

-chris

Hi Glen,

The two articles written by Michael Weinhardt and Chris Sells helped me a lot when I was learning how to make my control design-time friendly; maybe you could try these two articles too:

First part:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/04/Design-TimeControls/default.aspx

Second part:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/05/Design-TimeControls/default.aspx


Good luck,

-chris

Chris,

Thanks for the info. 

Sincerely,
Glen