Designer Services

Designer Services can be divided into three major sections: component designers, Windows Forms Designers, and drawing designers. The component designers provide the core functionality of the .NET framework designer architecture, whereas the Windows Forms Designers extend the design-time support for Windows Forms. The list of classes, interfaces, delegates, and enumerations for these three designer sections is rather extensive. They are discussed in the following sections.

System.ComponentModel.Design Namespace

The System.ComponentModel.Design namespace contains the core .NET framework designer architecture classes and interfaces that can be used to define designers and custom editors for components at design-time. Tables 5.1 ...

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