In Designer: Property default value is set, but property isn't called while setting default?

Question

I have a piece of code that goes something like this:

[DefaultValue(false)]
public bool Property
{
    set
    {
        blah = value;
        someControl.Vi         


        

Answer 1

Two options;

• take away the default (bool defaults to false anyway)
• use ShouldSerialize* to make it clear

in the latter, you might want a bool? to track "explicit set" vs "implicit default":

private bool? property;
public bool Property
{
    set
    {
        property = value;
        someControl.Visible = value;
    }
    get
    {
        return property.GetValueOrDefault();
    }
}
public void ResetProperty() { property = null; }
public bool ShouldSerializeProperty() { return property.HasValue; }

Note that Reset* and ShouldSerialize* are patterns recognized by the component-model.