Creating a Windows Control Designer
When you modify control properties for visual controls, the control is generally updated immediately and you have an idea of the effect of your changes. However, what do you do if you want to experiment with several potentially complex changes or your changes will be evident only when code runs? You create a designer—that's what you do.
The .NET Framework introduces the IDesigner interface. From this interface a generic ComponentDesigner class was defined, and from the ComponentDesigner class a ControlDesigner class was defined. Basically, a designer is a class that allows you to associate a verb and behavior with a component or control. A verb (an action that will be displayed as a context menu item) is represented ...
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