Creating a Better Designer Experience

Up to this point, we’ve ignored the Design view experience. In other words, we’ve ignored the question of how our custom controls appear in the Visual Web Developer or Visual Studio .NET Design view.

You can modify the appearance of your control in Design view in two ways. You can apply design-time attributes to the control, or you can associate a ControlDesigner with your control. We explore both methods in this section.

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