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How can we implement Windows Forms Designer in a WinForms application ? Visual Studio uses System.ComponentModel.Design namespace to implement the Form Designer. How can we use this to implement a Form Designer in a WinForms application ? Is there any other library available for achieving the same ?

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check this great tutorials http://amrelsehemy.net/category/Design-Time-Support.aspx

Amr ElGarhy
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I believe that is the library you want to use, but you need to provide more information about what you want to achieve to get a definitive answer. It may be worth reading this article from MSDN Magazine.

BrianLy
I have already gone through the articles on MSDN. Do we have any tutorial that explains how to use the System.ComponentModel.Design in action ?
this. __curious_geek
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Hi,

I finally found something really interesting and helpful from CodePlex here. I read about this on Brad Abram's Blog Post. These includes many examples on framework extensibility and Custom Windows Form Designer Interface is one of them.

Link Txt 1: http://mef.codeplex.com/

Link Txt 2: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/04/13/managed-extensibility-framework-preview-5-released.aspx

Thanks.

this. __curious_geek