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 often stumble upon such problems in Visual Studio. In many cases MSVS forms designer fails to render form correctly. Back in the days I worked with WinForms I had to do all kind of weird tricks to enable some complex scenarios. However I think that using visual inheritance is very beneficial and should not be thrown away regardless of MSVS designer bugs.