Syntax for associating a Design to a custom control

[nemaroller]

I need to develop a SuperTabPage...

 

And therefore, cannot use usercontrol, because I want to inherit from TabPage.

 

So instead I am creating a class that inherits TabPage.

 

But, I want to be able to visually layout the controls on the page. And the VS IDE won't grant that ability to me.

 

So I have been trying to implement a Designer for the class, but unfortunately, TabPageDesigner is marked as private.

 

Perhaps its my syntax (which because there are little examples of anywhere its god-awful)..

 

Anyone have ideas, hints, suggestions...

 

Imports System.Windows.Forms.Design
Imports System.ComponentModel

<Designer(System.Windows.Forms.Design.TabPageDesigner, System.ComponentModel.Design.IDesigner)> Public Class Class1

   Inherits TabPage


   Private Sub InitializeComponent()

   End Sub
End Class

[Volte]

You may be able to do something with the ParentControlDesigner class, but I'm sure you'll be able to make a designable tab control that easily.

 

It will most likely be easier to design your controls on a form and then copy and paste the designer code into the TabControl.

[nemaroller]

Well, the requirement is to have a TabPage that can be reused elsewhere in the program, and since the existence of the TabPage depends on the user, I needed code to do something like:

 

 MyStandardTabControl.TabPages.Add(myCustomTabPage)

 

But anyway, I created a usercontrol, and after it was visually laid out, simply changed Inherits Usercontrol to Inherits TabPage.

 

Not elegant in the way I would of have liked, but I'm certainly not going to bother with the time involved to figure out how to implement a designer for it.

[divil]

If you want to apply the framework tabpage designer to your class, it doesn't matter that it's private - you can apply the attribute like this:

 

Designer("System.Windows.Forms.Design.TabPageDesigner, System.Design, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")