Adding attributes to properties or fields at design time.

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I have a component that does some interesting stuff exposing the member properties of a child control within a usercontrol properties of the parent control using a TypeDescriptionProvider.

Effectively, instead of dropping a text box on a control and then writing a property to expose the textbox's Text property, you just declare an attribute saying "expose the Text property of textBox1 in a property called MyText"

At the moment I have to physically write an attribute for each of the properties I want to expose but I'd really like to do something in the style of an ExtenderProvider and be able to have the design time add the attributes to the class declaration and serialize the whole lot automatically.

If you have any idea of how I might accomplish that I'd be happy to hear from you.

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