How to implement a custom windows form designer?

Question

How can we implement Windows Forms Designer in a WinForms application? Visual Studio uses the System.ComponentModel.Design namespace to implement the form designer. How can we use this to implement the form designer in a WinForms application? Is there any other library to achieve the same?

Answer 1

I finally found something really interesting and useful from CodePlex here . I read about it on the Brad Abram Blog . They include many examples of framework extensibility, and the Windows Forms Designer UI is one of them.

Link Txt 1: http://mef.codeplex.com/

Txt 2 link: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/04/13/managed-extensibility-framework-preview-5-released.aspx

Thanks.