Making a custom control's property input like that of a multiline textbox

Question

Say I have attribute "Address", how can I make it's input in the form designer's property box like that of a text box's text input, like so:

?

Answer 1

Decorate your Address property with an EditorAttribute referencing the MultilineStringEditor class:

using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing.Design;

[Editor("System.ComponentModel.Design.MultilineStringEditor, System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a",
    typeof(UITypeEditor))]
public string Address
{
    get;
    set;
}