I have created a custom control where I have applied a new custom category to 
all properties I would like users to set.  All other properties I want to 
filter out.  For example, I have derived a CustomTextBox from TextBox, and 
have filtered out all properties that aren't tagged with my custom category.  
(As an example of filtering, I created a CustomTextBoxDesigner which pulls 
out properties from the design time execution by overriding 
PostFilterProperties).

This all works fine except for one thing.  I want to reuse the TextBox's 
"Size" property, BUT, have my Category be the new custom category and NOT the 
"Layout" category.  To do this I have the following:

[Category("NewCustomCategory")]
public new Size Size
{
  get {return base.Size;}
  set {base.Size = value;}
}

This works great, except, When I resize the CustomTextBox control on the 
surface it does not refresh correctly.  The size does not update.  
Interestingly enough, if I keep everything as is, and keep all "Layout" 
categories as well as the custom one, the resize of the text box is now fine. 
 

Can anyone shed some light on why this is?

I have since figured out that I really needed to ensure not ALL properties 
with the "Layout" category get removed.  I only wanted to remove those 
properties that were of the "Layout" category and that were also browsable.  
Doing this instead caused the refresh issue to go away.  I'm not quite sure 
which property was absolutely necessary.  Maybe ClientSize.  At any rate, the 
issue was some dependency with one of the Non-browsable properties being 
removed that the designer required for the control to refresh properly after 
a resize of the control.

"leepard" wrote:


> I have created a custom control where I have applied a new custom category to 
> all properties I would like users to set.  All other properties I want to 
> filter out.  For example, I have derived a CustomTextBox from TextBox, and 
> have filtered out all properties that aren't tagged with my custom category.  
> (As an example of filtering, I created a CustomTextBoxDesigner which pulls 
> out properties from the design time execution by overriding 
> PostFilterProperties).
> 
> This all works fine except for one thing.  I want to reuse the TextBox's 
> "Size" property, BUT, have my Category be the new custom category and NOT the 
> "Layout" category.  To do this I have the following:
> 
> [Category("NewCustomCategory")]
> public new Size Size
> {
>   get {return base.Size;}
>   set {base.Size = value;}
> }
> 
> This works great, except, When I resize the CustomTextBox control on the 
> surface it does not refresh correctly.  The size does not update.  
> Interestingly enough, if I keep everything as is, and keep all "Layout" 
> categories as well as the custom one, the resize of the text box is now fine. 
>  
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on why this is?