Windows Forms 2.0 Programming

12. Design-Time Integration: Designers and Smart Tags The properties window is part of a broad set of design-time services that includes component designers and smart tags and which allow you to enhance the behavior of your components in man...

Designers In Chapter 11: Design-Time Integration: The Properties Window, you saw how properties are exposed to the developer at design-time, plus the set of design-time services that allow your components to integrate with it. The goal of these fe...

Smart Tags Smart tags are designed to present the most commonly used or contextually relevant configurations for a component right next to the component on the design surface (visual or nonvisual). Figure 12.6 shows the smart tag for t...

Where Are We? In Chapter 11, we looked at a variety of design-time integration features, most of which target the behavior of a component in the Properties window. In this chapter, we've expanded our integration through the use of custom designers...