Making a UserControl behave like a Timer control at design time

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Making a UserControl behave like a Timer control at design time

I have a UserControl in C# that I want to behave like the Timer control, and other controls behave.  That is, at design time, when the user places the control on a form, it drops down to the window below the form instead, and just shows its name.  Also, at runtime, it doesn't display anything.  Does anyone know how to do this

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Making a UserControl behave like a Timer control at design time

  • Keyrus

    Sorry if I seem a little dense here, but are you saying that I just need to code it as a component and it will behave the way I want

  • Youssef

    but why would you want a user control without any ui

  • Jester

    Maybe it shouldn't be a control at all.  I was just looking at the built-in controls (components ) that work this way: Timer, OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog, ErrorProvider, etc.  If Microsoft sees a use for such a thing, why can't I do it    I have re-coded it as a class, and it works fine.  But, it won't show up in the toolbox because it isn't a control.  I guess I can live with it as-is.

  • MarvinTPA

    yeah the designer is a component designer

  • KennyKls

    note: this is Not!!! solid advice, just taking some stuff I learned from asp.net designers - in asp.net if you make your own designer as a component designer (can't remember how thats done exactly )

    if you forced it to use the component designer, then it should work   dunno seems like it would (override form designer)

  • ahmeds

    Inherit from Component.
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