User controls at design time

Question

I am creating a UserControl that has an area for users to add additional controls to at design time. Is there a way to force the controls being added to go to a certain area or maybe a panel when they are dropped on the control in the designer? What I really need is a way to change the location of the client rectangle of my control or to override the Controls.Add (at design time) and add the controls to a panel. Any help or hints would be appreciated.

Administrator · Answer

That's exactly the kind of thing I need. Thanks! Is there a good online site to find out more about how to use ControlDesigner derived classes.?

Administrator · Answer

Maybe you allready did this but just to be sure: You can make the design view show what you want it to show using a class derived from ControlDesigner. This goes as follows: -Make a class such as the following: public class MyControlDesigner : ControlDesigner -Add the following code just before the class definition of your control: [Designer(typeof(CustomWebControl.Design.MyControlDesigner))] (in the example the MyControlDesigner was made in namespace CustomWebControl.Design) -Override the following function in the MyControlDesigner class: public override string GetDesignTimeHtml()