Showing public fields of a UserControl in designer

Question

I am trying to add some fields to a custom UserControl that I am making. I have some fields that I like them to be visible in the Properties window of Visual Studio. I tried to use the flags below but I dont see the field in the designer, even after a compile.

How should I do this correctly?

public partial class TosChartControl: UserControl
{

    #region PUBLIC FIELDS

    [Browsable(true)] //Added this but still does not show up
    [Category("Data")]
    [DefaultValue(0)]
    [Description("ID of the Sensor Node")]
    public int NodeId { get; set; }

    #endregion

    public TosChartControl()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }
}

I did clean and rebuild the soloution and projects but I cant still see this field in Properties window. Even restarting the Visualstudio didnt help.

Answer 1

UPDATE: Your public properties are visible in the designer only when it's in another control in the designer. It turns out that you don't need to add this attribute, properties are visible by default in the designer. As far as I understand, when it's in another component's design view, an instance of the user control is created and properties can be shown. Sorry for misleading you in the beginning, I thought it was necessary to add it.

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Try this attribute:

[Browsable(true)]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.browsableattribute.aspx