How to access inherited controls in the winforms designer

Question

I\'m making some controls which all have to share the same look and some common behavior, although they are meant for different kind of inputs. So I made a BaseClass which i

Answer 1

When you try to access from the inherited control with the designer to the TableLayoutPanel declared in the base control, you're using a feature in WinForms called "Visual Inheritance".

Unfortunately TableLayoutPanel doesn't support visual inheritance: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171689%28VS.80%29.aspx

That's why the TableLayoutPanel appears blocked in the inherited controls.