Before you start developing Custom Controls for the Out-Of-Process WinForms Designer, please read the Blog Post covering this topic. To ramp up with the Out-Of-Process WinForms Designer in general and the motivation and necessity of its redesign, please read the basic overview in this blog post.
- How to create Control Designers/Type Editors for the out-of-process .NET Windows Forms designer using Visual Studio solution templates.
- How to structure Control Library NuGet packages
- Creating a Framework-based Control Designer, which doesn't use a custom Type Editor.
- Creating a complex Control Designer with a dedicated Type Editor.
- C# Visual Studio Template Solution for creating a custom Type Editor.
- Visual Basic Visual Studio Template Solution for creating a custom Type Editor.
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