Have a Great DesignTime Experience with a Powerful DesignSurface (Extended) Class

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.ComponentModel.Design;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Reflection;

namespace DesignSurfaceExt {
public class TabOrderHooker {
    private const string _Name_ = "TabOrderHooker";

    private object _tabOrder = null;

    //- Enables/Disables visual TabOrder on the view.
    //- internal override
    public void HookTabOrder ( IDesignerHost host ) {
        //- the TabOrder must be called AFTER the DesignSurface has been loaded
        //- therefore we do a little check
        if ( null == host.RootComponent )
            throw new Exception ( _Name_ + "::HookTabOrder() - Exception: the TabOrder must be invoked after the DesignSurface has been loaded! " );

        try {
            System.Reflection.Assembly designAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.Load ( "System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" );
            Type tabOrderType = designAssembly.GetType ( "System.Windows.Forms.Design.TabOrder" );
            if ( _tabOrder == null ) {
                //- call the ctor passing the IDesignerHost taget object
                _tabOrder = Activator.CreateInstance ( tabOrderType, new object[] { host } );
            }
            else {
                DisposeTabOrder();
            }
        }//end_try
        catch ( Exception ex ) {
            throw new Exception ( _Name_ + "::HookTabOrder() - Exception: (see Inner Exception)", ex );
        }//end_catch

    }

    

    //- Disposes the tab order
    public void DisposeTabOrder() {
        if ( null == _tabOrder ) return;
        try {
            System.Reflection.Assembly designAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.Load ( "System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" );
            Type tabOrderType = designAssembly.GetType ( "System.Windows.Forms.Design.TabOrder" );
            tabOrderType.InvokeMember ( "Dispose", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, _tabOrder, new object[] { true } );
            _tabOrder = null;
        }
        catch ( Exception ex ) {
            throw new Exception ( _Name_ + "::DisposeTabOrder() - Exception: (see Inner Exception)", ex );
        }//end_catch
    }


}//end_class
}//end_namespace