I have a class with some abstract methods, but I want to be able to edit a subclass of that class in the designer. However, the designer can\'t edit the subclass unless it
I know its not quite what you are after but you could make all of your stubs in the base class throw the NotImplementedException. Then if any of your subclasses have not overridden them you would get a runtime exception when the method in the base class gets called.