How do you stop the Designer generating code for public properties on a User Control?

Question

How do you stop the designer from auto generating code that sets the value for public properties on a user control?

Answer 1

Use the DesignerSerializationVisibilityAttribute on the properties that you want to hide from the designer serialization and set the parameter to Hidden.

[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)] public string Name {     get;     set; } 

Answer 2

Add the following attributes to the property in your control:

[Browsable(false), DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]