Good time of Day,

I have a very simple custom control comprised of a label and a textbox. I have public accessor methods to change the textbox and label color, text, etc... When I place my custom control on a form and change, lets say the textbox's color within it, I can see the color change in the design mode. But, as soon as I compile the project, or close and open the form - the color is reset back to just white.

How can I make the custom control to persistently retain its properties?

Thanks,

-igor

You need to create a property for every property that you want to store in designer code. So for example you will have TextBoxBackColor property that when setted will change textbox back color. By default when you create a property for UserControl, that property will be stored in designer code. If you want to disable that, because sometime that is also neccesarry, then you should use property attribute DesignerSerializationVisibility.

You need to create a property for every property that you want to store in designer code. So for example you will have TextBoxBackColor property that when setted will change textbox back color. By default when you create a property for UserControl, that property will be stored in designer code. If you want to disable that, because sometime that is also neccesarry, then you should use property attribute DesignerSerializationVisibility.