Dropping Controls On To User Control At Design Time


I want to create a User Control that will be able to contain other controls - and to be able to drop those other controls on to the user control at design time.

I haven't managed to find anything by Googling - except a MSFT example (IToolboxUserExample) which compiles/runs but doesn't actually seem to do anything. I also found a brief example showing that this could be done by adding a custom designer, unfortunately although the dropped controls seemed to nest themselves on the User Control at design time they disappeared in a puff of smoke when I ran the app.

Is what I am trying to do actually possible? If so can anybody point me to a simple example/article that I can learn from and build on please? I have managed to build a class based on a Panel which does what I want but have had no success with a User Control.

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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
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