Why must the designer create an instance of my control's absract base class?

Brady Kelly <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:32:31 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.winforms
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I'm not asking it to create an instance of the base class, just the derive
class.   Can anyone tell me why this is so?