I'm just about to develop a custom component in Visual Studio 2010. In contrast to controls components are not visible during runtime and in design time they are shown in a component panel at the bottom of the designer window.
My custom component is able to create other components so that the created components are linked to my custom component. As I can create a lot of new components I would like to hide them from the component panel as I can access them via my custom control.
Is it possible to programmatically (or at all) hide components from the component panel?
Maybe you should check the options of the component. There are a few options to hide the objects, make them available and more. To check the options just click the
component
+ Alt + enter.