VS.Net 2005 Design-Time Integration

Doing design-time integration for components and controls is always a big request. Being able drop a control or component in something like the WinForms designer, lets developers visualize what things will look like as they change properties.

The following article gives a good overview of the architecture used to make components design-time editable. And, it discusses things like: type converters, UI type converters, custom designers, and the design-time attributes.