User Controls and Control Containers

[Ideas Man]

I have just created a new user control and I am pretty new to this topic.
I can easily drag and drop controls onto the user control at design time, so no problems there, but when I goto do the same in another project that references the control library .dll, it doesn't work.

How can I make my user control become a control library, a bit like the groupbox accepts controls when it is being used as a control in another project?

[wossname]

What do you mean it doesn't work? Do you mean you can't access your user control at all (can't get it onto the form) or just that you can't drag other controls into it?

[Ideas Man]

I can't drag other controls into it. They are still part of the form, not the user control.

[Ideas Man]

Update:

I changed the inheritance to say Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Panel and it allows me to drop controls into the UserControl in the IDE now, however, any other controls such as the panel control still don't present this behaviour if they are children of the UserControl.

The problem is I don't want to be able to drop controls anywhere in the UserControl, only a specified region, one specified with a panel control.

Does anyone know how I can get a Panel control that is a child of a UserControl to accept controls and hold them in it's container?