how to write a property at designer by propety window at design time of nested control

[Guru Call]

Hi, I made a user control. it is also a collection ( made by ) various user controls . Eg : ButtonControl is made by various buttons. I want to write the property of one of this control ( like EditButton it has contain ) at designer at design time in my application by using property window. like this ::: this.ButtonControl .EditButton.Text = "Edit me" how can I do ??? Plz help ...

[gnjunge]

In your usercontrol override OnPaint like this:

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
if (this.DesignMode)
this.EditButton.Text = "I'm in design mode";
base.OnPaint(e);
}

or do the same but for the OnPaint in your window