Hi there

Id like to know you create a property Group for forms and user controls. just like you would get for size, margin, padding etc

my aim (for now at least) is to be able have a borders property consisting of left, right, top,bottom. All values would be an Integer.

I could just create 4 single properties but id would much prefer to group them under like borders or something.
Ive had a bit of a look around and i think i have to create a class with the properties set within that class and then set the property on the object as that class.
any way ive tried all that and i can't get it to come out on my form properties at all, worse than that when i just added a new one to the form the properties window was blank and visual studio crashed :/

Even If I'm missing some fundamentally much easier way to achieve my goal of the borders, I'd still like to know how to do the property group as it'll probably come in handy

please note value are currently in boolean as that was the original idea but writing this i decided that integer would give me much more functionality in fact i might even go for palet color and default it to transparent or something who knows

any way here is my class

Code:
Public Class ClsPnlBorders
    Private mRight As Boolean
    Public Property Right As Boolean
        Get
            Return mRight
        End Get
        Set(value As Boolean)
            mRight = value
            RaiseEvent BordersChanged()
        End Set
    End Property
    Private mLeft As Boolean
    Public Property Left As Boolean
        Get
            Return mLeft
        End Get
        Set(value As Boolean)
            mLeft = value
            RaiseEvent BordersChanged()
        End Set
    End Property
    Private mTop As Boolean
    Public Property Top As Boolean
        Get
            Return mTop
        End Get
        Set(value As Boolean)
            mTop = value
            RaiseEvent BordersChanged()
        End Set
    End Property
    Private mBottom As Boolean
    Public Property Bottom As Boolean
        Get
            Return mBottom
        End Get
        Set(value As Boolean)
            mBottom = value
            RaiseEvent BordersChanged()
        End Set
    End Property
    Public Sub New(right As Boolean, left As Boolean, top As Boolean, bottom As Boolean)
        mRight = right
        mLeft = left
        mTop = top
        mBottom = bottom
    End Sub
    Public Event BordersChanged()

End Class
and my usage

Code:
Private mBorders() As ClsPnlBorders
    <TypeConverter(GetType(ExpandableObjectConverter)), DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)> _
    Public Property Borders() As ClsPnlBorders
        Get
            Return mBorders(0)
        End Get
        Set(value As ClsPnlBorders)
            mBorders(0) = value
        End Set
End Property

many thanks

Ian