I am creating a user defined control containing a text box and a label.  The text box has special functionality, which does not relate to my question.  (Thankfully, that part works.)  I want to include most of the properties from the label and text box as properties of the control.

I would like to know how to have the Properties panel provide drop down lists for some properties (such as "Alignment", for instance), dialog windows for other properties (such as "Font"), and special interfaces (such as the drop-down tab list functionality of "BackColor") which exist in the Properties panel for a regular text box control.  So far my control requires a user to remember values and enter them manually, which is not very user friendly.

I'm new to this forum today.  I appreciate suggestions.  Thanks.

(I will post some other questions separately about this.)

2 years later, but I've got the same questions.  I've read the article:

http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/1539541

I created a form in a property page and I thought it was working as the little ellipse button on the properties pane of my control on a form.  Once I ran the wizard to build all the properties for me, everything seems to have stopped working.  Now, I can only get my property page to show up my right-clicking the control.  My public property no longer brings it up.  Not sure what I did or if I was just dreaming when I thought this was working.

Any suggestions on available resources or samples to look at for building ActiveX controls.  Don't know if it matters or not, but this control is a spread (Farpoint's Spread 7.0 and a couple of Xceed's SmartUI toolbars) that has properties for the server, database, and table to connect to.  The property page is for building the WHERE clause of the query.

Well if your only posting spam charmeddvd123 don't bother. 

Please delete his topics.

Keith