This post describes how to use the Pen object in drawing and using sepcial characteristics of the pen like DashStyle and LineCaps.

This post shows how to add Auto Format.. link in the Smart Tag of the ASP.NET web controls, to give the user of the control a variety of different styles in the design time.

This post shows the different types of brushes built in GDI+, how to work with them and how they look.

This post describes the ASP.NET configuration model, shows the all the config files that are used when running an ASP.NET application, describes the merging process and shows some Tools for editing web.config.

The final part in the series describing how to debug design time support.

This post shows how to let your custom controls to have an extra tab in the property window by building a new PropertyTab.

This post shows how to add custom Snaplines for your custom windows controls. Includes a sample and source code.

This post describes how to add a smart tag panel to your custom control.

This post describes how to use a control designer to add custom menu items on the custom controls by adding Designer Verbs.

This post shows how to filter metadata in the design time environment using designers and implementing PostFilter and PreFilter methods.

This post gives an introduction to designers and show what designers can do during the design time, and compares between web and windows controls designers.

This post describes by steps how to implement a custom UITypeEditor and gives a brief introduction on the IWindowFormsEditorService, the sample introduced is a ColorEditor that uses the ColorWheel to pick from it colors from the drop down.

This post gives a brief introduction on what is an UITypeEditor and what enhancements it gives for the design time environment, and some built in examples.

Design Time Attributes for custom controls