What's the state of play with “Visual Inheritance”

Question

We have an application that has to be flexible in how it displays it\'s main form to the user - depending on the user, the form should be slightly different, maybe an extra

Answer 1

I've seen some problems in VS2005 with this. They were mostly due to problems with construction of the forms-objects in the designer. There were issues with code that tried to access the database from the form-constructors etc.

You can debug issues like this by starting a second instance of visual studio and loading up the first instance in the debugger. If you set breakpoints in your code you can then debug what happens in the designers in the first instance.

Another problem I can remember was generics in form classes

public class MyForm : Form

this won't work