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A designable PropertyTree for VS.NET

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A TabControl-like options dialog based on a TreeView
/*
  Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Russell Morris
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using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design;

using WRM.Windows.Forms.Design;

namespace WRM.Windows.Forms
{
	/// <summary>
	/// A custom version of <see cref="PropertyPane">PropertyPane</see> that
	/// should be used as the base class for all customized versions of
	/// <c>PropertyPane</c>.
	/// </summary>
	/// <remarks>
	/// <para>
	/// This class exists soley to force all classes that descend from it
	/// to be associated with the regular <see cref="ControlDesigner">
	/// ControlDesigner</see> instead of the <see cref="PropertyPaneDesigner">
	/// PropertyPaneDesigner</see>.  This action is necessary because user
	/// defined types of <c>PropertyPane</c>s should not act as
	/// parent controls during design-time.
	/// </para>
	/// <para>
	/// This reapplication of the <see cref="DesignerAttribute">Designer</see> 
	/// attribute does not affect the relationship with 
	/// <see cref="PropertyPaneRootDesigner">PropertyPaneRootDesigner</see>.
	/// This root designer will always be used to host the design view of
	/// any user defined <c>PropertyPane</c> derivative.
	/// </para>
	/// </remarks>
	[Designer(typeof(ControlDesigner))]
    [ToolboxItem(false)]
	public class UserPropertyPane : PropertyPane
	{
    /// <summary>
    /// Default constructor
    /// </summary>
		public UserPropertyPane()
		{
		}
	}
}

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Programming in C++ (and various other languages) since 1993. Started with OWL, then went on to MFC, ATL, Java, etc...

Graduated from Georgia Tech in December 2001.

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