.NET Custom Control Design-Time help

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I'm working on hacking a custom control I found online, and I'd like to add design-time functionality to it such that a small icon appears in the top left to make it easier to move the control. Right now, there are times when moving the control just doesn't work because the mouse cursor doesn't seem to want to grab onto it properly.

What i'm referring to is functionality similar to the GroupBox control. When it is added, you can see a small + like symbol that when clicked on, selects the control to be moved on the designer.

How can i add something like this to my custom control?

Posted 8-Jan-12 8:45am

agent154

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[no name] 8-Jan-12 21:38pm

What environment? ASP.NET or Windows?

agent154 9-Jan-12 6:46am

Windows Forms

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-01-08T18:19:00

agent154 wrote:
—mouse cursor doesn't seem to want to grab onto it properly.

This is called personification, one of the kinds of trope, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trope_%28linguistics%29[^]. (By some reason, this very kind of trope is missing from English Wikipedia page, but it is available in many other languages.)

Even though this observation is very interesting, in my humble opinion, the scientific method is still more productive in technology, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method[^].

OK, these were very general ideas for you to utilize. :-) Now, you need to go in further detail. :-)

The problem of implementing of the design-time behavior which you described in insufficient detail is not extremely difficult. You need to plan you work thoroughly and implement accordingly, but if you face some problem you cannot solve, try to describe the problem and expected behavior in detail and create some short code sample you tried. In this case, we would gladly help you.

—SA