System.ComponentModel.Design Namespace

Contains classes that developers can use to build custom design-time behavior for components and user interfaces for configuring components at design time. The design time environment provides systems that enable developers to arrange components and configure their properties. Some components may require specific design-time only behavior to function properly in a design time environment. It may also be valuable to provide custom user interfaces which assist developers in configuring components or the values of complex data types. The classes and interfaces defined within this namespace can be used to build design-time behavior for components, access design-time services, and implement customized design-time configuration interfaces.

Classes

ActiveDesignerEventArgs

Provides data for the ActiveDesigner event.

ActiveDesignSurfaceChangedEventArgs

Provides data for the ActiveDesignSurfaceChanged event.

ArrayEditor

Provides a user interface for editing arrays at design time.

BinaryEditor

Provides a user interface for editing binary data.

ByteViewer

Displays byte arrays in hexadecimal, ANSI, and Unicode formats.

CheckoutException

The exception that is thrown when an attempt to check out a file that is checked into a source code management program is canceled or fails.

CollectionEditor

Provides a user interface that can edit most types of collections at design time.

CollectionEditor.CollectionForm

Provides a modal dialog box for editing the contents of a collection using a UITypeEditor.

CommandID

Represents a unique command identifier that consists of a numeric command ID and a GUID menu group identifier.

ComponentChangedEventArgs

Provides data for the ComponentChanged event. This class cannot be inherited.

ComponentChangingEventArgs

Provides data for the ComponentChanging event. This class cannot be inherited.

ComponentDesigner

Extends the design mode behavior of a component.

ComponentDesigner.ShadowPropertyCollection

Represents a collection of shadow properties that should override inherited default or assigned values for specific properties. This class cannot be inherited.

ComponentEventArgs

Provides data for the ComponentAdded, ComponentAdding, ComponentRemoved, and ComponentRemoving events.

ComponentRenameEventArgs

Provides data for the ComponentRename event.

DataSourceDescriptor
DataSourceDescriptorCollection
DataSourceGroup
DataSourceGroupCollection
DataSourceProviderService
DateTimeEditor

This date time editor is a UITypeEditor suitable for visually editing DateTime objects.

DesignerActionHeaderItem

Represents a static header item on a smart tag panel. This class cannot be inherited.

DesignerActionItem

Provides the base class for types that represent a panel item on a smart tag panel.

DesignerActionItemCollection

Represents a collection of DesignerActionItem objects.

DesignerActionList

Provides the base class for types that define a list of items used to create a smart tag panel.

DesignerActionListCollection

Represents a collection of DesignerActionList objects.

DesignerActionListsChangedEventArgs

Provides data for the DesignerActionListsChanged event.

DesignerActionMethodItem

Represents a smart tag panel item that is associated with a method in a class derived from DesignerActionList.

DesignerActionPropertyItem

Represents a panel item that is associated with a property in a class derived from DesignerActionList. This class cannot be inherited.

DesignerActionService

Establishes a design-time service that manages the collection of DesignerActionItem objects for components.

DesignerActionTextItem

Represents a static text item on a smart tag panel.

DesignerActionUIService

Manages the user interface (UI) for a smart tag panel. This class cannot be inherited.

DesignerActionUIStateChangeEventArgs

Provides data for the DesignerActionUIStateChange event.

DesignerCollection

Represents a collection of designers.

DesignerCommandSet

Represents a base class for design-time tools, not derived from ComponentDesigner, that provide smart tag or designer verb capabilities.

DesignerEventArgs

Provides data for the DesignerCreated and DesignerDisposed events.

DesignerOptionService

Provides a base class for getting and setting option values for a designer.

DesignerOptionService.DesignerOptionCollection

Contains a collection of designer options. This class cannot be inherited.

DesignerTransaction

Provides a way to group a series of design-time actions to improve performance and enable most types of changes to be undone.

DesignerTransactionCloseEventArgs

Provides data for the TransactionClosed and TransactionClosing events.

DesignerVerb

Represents a verb that can be invoked from a designer.

DesignerVerbCollection

Represents a collection of DesignerVerb objects.

DesignSurface

Presents a user interface for designing components.

DesignSurfaceCollection

Contains a collection of design surfaces. This class cannot be inherited.

DesignSurfaceEventArgs

Provides data for the DesignSurfaceCreated event.

DesignSurfaceManager

Manages a collection of DesignSurface objects.

DesigntimeLicenseContext

Represents a design-time license context that can support a license provider at design time.

DesigntimeLicenseContextSerializer

Provides support for design-time license context serialization.

EventBindingService

A default implementation of the IEventBindingService interface.

ExceptionCollection

Represents the collection of exceptions.

HelpKeywordAttribute

Specifies the context keyword for a class or member. This class cannot be inherited.

InheritanceService

Provides a set of methods for identifying inherited components.

LoadedEventArgs

Provides data for the Loaded event. This class cannot be inherited.

LocalizationExtenderProvider

Provides design-time support for localization features to a root designer.

MenuCommand

Represents a Windows menu or toolbar command item.

MenuCommandsChangedEventArgs

Provides data for the MenuCommandsChanged event.

MenuCommandService

Implements the IMenuCommandService interface.

MultilineStringEditor

Displays a dialog for editing multi-line strings in design mode.

ObjectSelectorEditor

Implements the basic functionality that can be used to design value editors. These editors can, in turn, provide a user interface for representing and editing the values of objects of the supported data types.

ObjectSelectorEditor.Selector

Displays a hierarchical collection of labeled items, each represented by a TreeNode.

ObjectSelectorEditor.SelectorNode

Represents a node of a TreeView.

ProjectTargetFrameworkAttribute

Specifies the target framework for a project.

ServiceContainer

Provides a simple implementation of the IServiceContainer interface. This class cannot be inherited.

StandardCommands

Defines identifiers for the standard set of commands that are available to most applications.

StandardToolWindows

Defines GUID identifiers that correspond to the standard set of tool windows that are available in the design environment.

TypeDescriptionProviderService

Provides a type description provider for a specified type.

UndoEngine

Specifies generic undo/redo functionality at design time.

UndoEngine.UndoUnit

Encapsulates a unit of work that a user can undo.

Interfaces

IComponentChangeService

Provides an interface to add and remove the event handlers for events that add, change, remove or rename components, and provides methods to raise a ComponentChanged or ComponentChanging event.

IComponentDesignerDebugService

Provides debugging services in a design-time environment.

IComponentDesignerStateService

Allows a designer to store and retrieve its state.

IComponentDiscoveryService

Enables enumeration of components at design time.

IComponentInitializer

Provides a set of recommended default values during component creation.

IDesigner

Provides the basic framework for building a custom designer.

IDesignerEventService

Provides event notifications when root designers are added and removed, when a selected component changes, and when the current root designer changes.

IDesignerFilter

Provides an interface that enables a designer to access and filter the dictionaries of a TypeDescriptor that stores the property, attribute, and event descriptors that a component designer can expose to the design-time environment.

IDesignerHost

Provides an interface for managing designer transactions and components.

IDesignerHostTransactionState

Specifies methods for the designer host to report on the state of transactions.

IDesignerOptionService

Provides access to the designer options located on the Tools menu under the Options command in the Visual Studio development environment.

IDesignTimeAssemblyLoader

Utility for loading assemblies in a designer.

IDictionaryService

Provides a basic, component site-specific, key-value pair dictionary through a service that a designer can use to store user-defined data.

IEventBindingService

Provides a service for registering event handlers for component events.

IExtenderListService

Provides an interface that can list extender providers.

IExtenderProviderService

Provides an interface for adding and removing extender providers at design time.

IHelpService

Provides methods for showing Help topics and adding and removing Help keywords at design time.

IInheritanceService

Provides methods for identifying the components of a component.

IMenuCommandService

Provides methods to manage the global designer verbs and menu commands available in design mode, and to show some types of shortcut menus.

IMultitargetHelperService

Defines multi-target type name resolution services in a design-time environment.

IReferenceService

Provides an interface for obtaining references to objects within a project by name or type, obtaining the name of a specified object, and for locating the parent of a specified object within a designer project.

IResourceService

Provides an interface for designers to access resource readers and writers for specific CultureInfo resource types.

IRootDesigner

Provides support for root-level designer view technologies.

ISelectionService

Provides an interface for a designer to select components.

IServiceContainer

Provides a container for services.

ITreeDesigner

Provides support for building a set of related custom designers.

ITypeDescriptorFilterService

Provides an interface to modify the set of member descriptors for a component in design mode.

ITypeDiscoveryService

Discovers available types at design time.

ITypeResolutionService

Provides an interface to retrieve an assembly or type by name.

Enums

ComponentActionsType

Specifies the type of object-bound smart tag with respect to how it was associated with the component.

DesignerActionListsChangedType

Specifies the type of change occurring in a collection of DesignerActionList objects.

DesignerActionUIStateChangeType

Specifies the display state of a smart tag panel.

DisplayMode

Defines identifiers that indicate the display modes used by ByteViewer.

HelpContextType

Defines identifiers that indicate information about the context in which a request for Help information originated.

HelpKeywordType

Defines identifiers that indicate the type of a Help keyword.

MenuCommandsChangedType

Specifies the type of action that occurred to the related object's MenuCommands collection.

SelectionTypes

Defines identifiers that indicate the type of a selection.

ViewTechnology

Defines identifiers for a set of technologies that designer hosts support.

Delegates

ActiveDesignerEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the ActiveDesignerChanged event.

ActiveDesignSurfaceChangedEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the ActiveDesignSurfaceChanged event of a DesignSurfaceManager. This class cannot be inherited.

ComponentChangedEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle a ComponentChanged event.

ComponentChangingEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle a ComponentChanging event.

ComponentEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the ComponentAdding, ComponentAdded, ComponentRemoving, and ComponentRemoved events raised for component-level events.

ComponentRenameEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle a ComponentRename event.

DesignerActionListsChangedEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the DesignerActionListsChanged event of a DesignerActionService. This class cannot be inherited.

DesignerActionUIStateChangeEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the DesignerActionUIStateChange event of a DesignerActionUIService.

DesignerEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the DesignerCreated and DesignerDisposed events that are raised when a document is created or disposed of.

DesignerTransactionCloseEventHandler

Represents the method that handles the TransactionClosed and TransactionClosing events of a designer.

DesignSurfaceEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the DesignSurfaceCreated event of a DesignSurfaceManager class. This class cannot be inherited.

LoadedEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the Loaded event of the DesignSurface class. This class cannot be inherited.

MenuCommandsChangedEventHandler

Represents the method that will handle the MenuCommandsChanged event of a MenuCommandService. This class cannot be inherited.

ServiceCreatorCallback

Provides a callback mechanism that can create an instance of a service on demand.

Remarks

The classes in this namespace include: