Visual Inheritance, and Default Property Values

[big_trev]

Here is the situation. I have a Form, called Form1 that contains a button, this button is marked as private. I have another Form, called Form2 the inherits from Form1. I Want Form2 to be able to Show and hide the button in the base class, without exposing the button as protected / or public. I Have created a public property on Form1 which has Get/Set into button.Visible property. All should work ok i can hear you shouting. In the form2 designer, i can see the property mentioned above, and i can change its value, and the button obediantly shows and hides it self as expected. The problem is that When i set enabled to true, it adds code to the designer generated section, which speifically sets my property to true, and when i set it to false, it removes this code, but it does Not add code to set it to false. The defualt value of the property is set to true, but this has no effect. I realise i can call this property in my form load, or in a constructor, but i would like to get the design time support. Other properties such as Enable work fine. Any idas? Trev

[tarasn]

Try to add DesignerSerializationVisibility attribute: [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)] public bool Description { get { return myButton.Visible; } set { myButton.Visible = value; } } DevIntelligence.com - My blog for .Net Developers

[big_trev]

Unfortunately this does not have any effect. I believe that for some reason the designer believes the default value is set to false, so that when i set it to false, it does not add any code.