In my application I have a base control class - call it BaseControl - from
which I inherit to create multiple controls. I'm using a custom
ControlDesigner class because I need one or two special actions to be
available to the inherited controls at design-time.

But when I create a new control - call it MyControl - by inheriting
BaseControl, and open MyControl in the VS designer, I don't see any evidence
that my custom ControlDesigner class is being used at all; and a quick
MessageBox-in-constructor test verifies that one isn't even being created.

However, if I add BaseControl to the IDE toolbox and drag one onto a Form
without inheriting, all works fine and it uses the custom ControlDesigner,
verifying that it's implemented correctly.

Has anybody run across the same problem? I'm wondering if there's a simple
step I've overlooked that will get VS to use my custom ControlDesigner for
inherited classes; or do I need to go back to the drawing board and find a
way to do what I need to do without having to inherit BaseControl? (Or is
this a glitch? The Framework docs state plainly that all "design-time
attributes" of a Component class should be picked up by its inheritors.)

are they all on the same assembly?

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Joey Calisay
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"Greg Robinson" <greg (AT) cds-am (DOT) net> wrote

I had the same problem in post "Repost for Microsoft: Designer not activated
when designing Inheri", here's the response I received:

Your custom designer will not be used when your custom usercontrol is being
designed. VS uses IRootDesigners when design view is being uses, and using
reflector I can only see FormDocumentDesigner (used by forms) and the
UserControlDocumentDesigner (used by usercontrols).

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Joey Calisay
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"Greg Robinson" <greg (AT) cds-am (DOT) net> wrote

I just did a test, and derived classes use my designer without any problem.
My class is derived from ContainerControl, and my designer is derived from
ParentControlDesigner

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~Mike Powell,
software designer for Ramuseco ltd
www.ramuseco.com

"Greg Robinson" <greg (AT) cds-am (DOT) net> wrote