Inherited Form Problem

[simonm]

I have a base form with a toolstrip container and one toolstrip on it with five buttons.

When I inherit from this form I can't see the toolstrip container, the toolstrip or the buttons. They appear during runtime, just not visible during design time (although they're visible in the document outline. The problem is that I can't add any toolstrips or buttons to the existing toolstrip on my inherited form.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it? It's making me wonder what the point of inherited forms are if you get problems like this...

[EDIT] When I select the controls in the document outline window, the properties are grayed out and uneditable. I tried changing the modifiers of these controls on the base form from 'protected' to 'public' (and rebuilt the project) but still no joy.