usercontrol properties not being saved to the windows form designer

I have a user control which contains 2 infragistics control (combobox and a textbox)   I have  2 properties on my user control which expose these controls.  The issue I’m have is when I change a property on the control such as appearance.forecolor in the propeties window and save the form and open the form back up the  property value is not saved.  How do i get the property value to save in the designer  am i missging an attribute?

john

public TextBox  MyTextBox

{get {return MyTextBox; }

}

 

public ComboBox MyComboBox

{

get {return MyComboBox;}

}

}

 

To fix this issue you need to add an attribute to your properties:

[

DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]

But, I think you're using a UserControl in the wrong way. A UserControl should follow the encasulation rules and not expose its internal objects (what happens if you set the TextBox to null?), so expose only the properties you need, for example:

exposing a label text in the head of the control. 

public string HeaderText

{

   get { return lblHeader.Text;}

   set { lblHeader.Text = value; }

} 

To set the font of all controls in the UserControl, just change the UserControl font and it will effect all its children font.