Why won't my Custom Control's Text property show up in the Properties window?

c#, properties, user-controls, visual-studio-2010, winforms

Solution

UserControl goes to significant effort to hide the Text property. From the metadata:

    [Browsable(false)]
    [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
    [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
    [Bindable(false)]
    public override string Text { get; set; }

You can make it visible by overriding those attributes in your code:

    [Browsable(true)]
    [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
    [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
    [Bindable(true)]
    public override string Text 
    { 
        get { return ContentPresenter.Text; } 
        set { ContentPresenter.Text = value; } 
    }

I'm not promising that's enough to make it work, but it probably is.

Problem

I have a user control that inherits from UserControl. It's a button so I'm trying to make the text in the button, change-able by using the Text property like the real buttons, instead of naming my own like _Text. I have the following code but it doesn't work (ie it doesn't show up in the Property Window). The name of the label is ContentPresenter ``` public override string Text { get { return ContentPresenter.Text; } set { ContentPresenter.Text = value; } } ```

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