The ability to host your own Windows Forms designer is well documented now, and is a great technique that we will be shipping with our application. However, we'd like to gain some control over editing a form from Visual Studio itself. We'd like to insert our own DesignerLoader derived class into Visual Studio's form editing mechanisms, so that we can store a form in our own XML format rather than have VS generate code for us.
Initial research indicates that it may be possible with an add-in, as people have written offhand comments as such, but they are usually only mentioned in passing. My questions are these:
- Is it possible?
- How can it be done? With an add-in or otherwise?
Cheers.