How do I get the WinForm Designer to totally ignore a property on a custom control?

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Published on 2010-04-08T09:22:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 9:43 UTC
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This must be a FAQ, but I can’t find a duplicate question!

There are lot of different attributes that control what the WinForm Designer does with properties on a custom control, I am never clear on the one I should use in this case.

I am looking for:

  • Designer does not show property in grid
  • Designer does not read value of property
  • Designer does not set property to default value
  • E.g. Designer behaves as if the property was not there.
  • Designer does not complain if it has already done one of the above before the attributes were added (hard!)

Background.

The code that is giving me the problem is:

this.eventListControl.FilterSets = 
   ((SystList<FilterSet>)(resources.GetObject("eventListControl.FilterSets")));

The FilterSets property should never have been touched by the winforms designer; it is now not Serializable and MsDev falls over every time a form that used the eventListControl is changed!

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