visualdesigner

WPF Component Obscures Subcomponents in Designer

Some components like the viewbox are displayed in the visual designer as solid boxes. However, they can contain subcomponents. To view the subcomponents I comment out the viewbox. When I'm done I have to remove the comments to restore the functionality. It's rather annoying. Is there any way to permanently make the viewbox invisible ...

Quirks of Visual Studio's property pane with WPF

Working in the visual designer of a WinForm project, when one selects an element the properties pane lists all the properties for that element. Selecting a property in the properties pane then displays a description for that property (the value of the assigned DescriptionAttribute) in a property description box immediately below the list...

Writing a Visual Studio extension for a custom designer.

So, I've got something I want to try out. The idea is to have a visual designer that works as a Visual Studio Extension, I want to be able to drag out event handlers and wire up behaviors, anyone who's ever played with the warcraft III script editor will have a pretty good idea what I'm wanting to do. Is this kind of thing readily hand...