A Toolkit/Component Control/Component by LMD Innovative

LMD DesignPack.NET allows WinForms developers to utilize the full power of the .NET framework design-time infrastructure. Provide your own applications with advanced form and control designer features within minutes!

While the MS designing infrastructure working behind the scenes is rather complex and sophisticated, using the LMD DesignPack.NET components is easy and straight-forward. You may use DesignPack.NET for following scenarios:
* To provide endusers the possibility to customize application's forms (windows) look and feel (and even functionality!)
* To allow endusers to move / resize controls at runtime
* To implement Report Designer like application
* To develop an IDE-like application
etc.

Key features are:
* Visual designers can be created and shown for any pre-created form or control instance or for any type derived from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl;
* The visual designer provided by the LMDDesignSurface allows components of the designed from/control to be selected, moved and resized
* Components can be added to the designed from/control from the LMD Toolbox;
* Components can be removed from the designed from/control (pressing the DEL key removes the selected component(s))
* Properties of the components can be viewed and modified (including selection of event handlers) by using the LMDPropertyGrid control - an enhanced version of the standard .net PropertyGrid control with native support for EventsTab and tight integration with other LMD DesignPack.NET components
* Event handlers for components' events can be selected from the 2 sources: 1. the compiled assembly which contains the designed form/control and 2. script code written by enduser
* Event handler function declarations are generated automatically when the event handler cell of the EventsTab is double-clicked (just as in most professional IDEs);
* A number of services (in terms of the MS design infrastructure) are provided by the LMD DesignPack which can be used by any property editors and component designers (see Package Architecture for details);
* All the changes made to the designed form/control are effective immediately at the application's run-time when the design-time mode of the LMDDesignSurface is turned off;
* The designed form/control can be saved to and loaded from an XML document.

LMD DesignPack.NET is implemented in C#, contains 100% managed code and is compatible with version 1.1 and 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is designed for MS Visual Studio 2003/2005 IDE families, but can be used with any .NET compatible IDE as well (like Borland Delphi 2005 or later).