Unhiding wanted properties in custom controls

Question

My issue is basically the opposite of Hiding unwanted properties in custom controls.

I have created my own ProgressBar with text support based on the description I found here at SO: 3529928/how-do-i-put-text-on-progressbar. It works really great. I have slightly modified it for my use: I don't use the new property CustomText of that example, I use the built-in Text of the Controls base class.

ProgressBar by default has no use for Text, thus it's hidden in the designer. How can I unhide it?

I tried to overload it in order to apply the [Browsable(true)] attribute, but it doesn't work yet:

[Browsable (true)]
virtual property String^    Text      { String^ get()             override;
                                        void    set(String^ text) override; };

What else do I have to do?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '16 at 18:02

After deleting Visual Studio 2008's temporary files in
C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ProjectAssemblies\
and deleting the .suo and .ncb,
and restarting VS2008,
...
the properties became visible. So it's a designer updating failure, but the code works. :-)

Unhiding wanted properties in custom controls

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