title: How can I get Visual Studio 2008 Windows Forms designer to render a Form that implements an abstract base class?
body: <p>I engaged a problem with inherited Controls in Windows Forms and need some advice on it.</p>
  
  <p>I do use a base class for items in a List (selfmade GUI list made of a panel) and some inherited controls that are for each type of data that could be added to the list.</p>
  
  <p>There was no problem with it, but I now found out, that it would be right, to make the base-control an abstract class, since it has methods, that need to be implemented in all inherited controls, called from the code inside the base-control, but must not and can not be implemented in the base class.</p>
  
  <p>When I mark the base-control as abstract, the Visual&nbsp;Studio&nbsp;2008 Designer refuses to load the window.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get the Designer work with the base-control made abstract?</p>