[Feature Request]: Use the WinForms Designer Extensibility SDK for .NET

[PWagner1]

Since MS is having issues supporting the WinForms designer in .NET, the WinForms Designer Extensibility SDK could be the solution for the current designer issues

[Smurf-IV]

Nice find, All Designer issues should be linked to this.

[PWagner1]

Nice find, All Designer issues should be linked to this.

Well it's actually @sdreb3421 who notified me about this.

[Smurf-IV]

Also, (Maybe - it's unclear) a reason some of the .Net5 is not working in a designer might be down to the loading in .Net5Core which has quite a few of the following "Color API's" missing:
dotnet/runtime#18476

[Smurf-IV]

@Wagnerp This is going to be "Interesting"
Quote: The designers, as per the API specs, need to be implemented inside a NuGet package.

See the middle of the following page:
https://www.telerik.com/blogs/new-telerik-ui-for-winforms-designers-dotnet-core-dotnet-5

[Smurf-IV]

And the following Caveats and "Tips'n'tricks" will need to be reformatted to reflect whatever "we" get working for Krypton:
https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/core/design-time

[PWagner1]

It's not ideal, but maybe private nightly packages could be used for testing?

[Smurf-IV]

I spent all day yesterday trying to find documentation on how to use this, and came up empty.
Telerik and devexpress mention it in their latest "suites", but that's it. :-(

[PWagner1]

I spent all day yesterday trying to find documentation on how to use this, and came up empty. Telerik and devexpress mention it in their latest "suites", but that's it. :-(

I think it's because it is so new, there is limited documentation so far. The packages only first appeared back in November.

[Smurf-IV]

I have had an inspiration from the "Read between the lines of why the above is solving things"

If I

• Remove "ALL" designers references from the toolkit e.g.
  

• Set toolkit project to be "Only" net5 windows

• Create a new winform net 5 windows only main app

• build.

• I get the following showing up in the toolbox:
  

I'll need to investigate further to see "What" the designers are attempting to do; but so far I've been able to drag (A random selection not all) controls onto the form !

[PWagner1]

Just out of interest, do the action lists show up when using .NET?

[Smurf-IV]

Just out of interest, do the action lists show up when using .NET?

Can you show a specific example, and do you mean in "Net 5" ?

The reason I ask is because of the following statement:

Even when AutoSize for a button is set to true it still has the Resize Handles !
i.e. there is no code that appears to be actually doing the statement in the designer of 4.8 !