Making the Visual Studio designer ignore a public property

Question

I have a UserControl with a public property using the following attributes:

[Browsable(false)]
[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]

I have tried deleting the owner form, re-creating a fresh form in Visual Studio 2010, and adding this UserControl to the form. It keeps adding a line like the following in the Designer file:

this.vMyUserControl.MyProperty = ((MyNamespace.MyClass)(resources.GetObject("vMyUserControl.MyProperty")));

This crashes my application because this property is not designed to be created by serialization.

Answer 1

I failed to find a real solution, but a workaround instead...

I had to go into the Form.resx file and locate the data/value key pair that it was deserializing into my public property. I manually deleted the XML pair contents and then I was able to run the application.

This allowed my application to build and run without errors. Everything else I tried (including deleting the container form for my UserControl and re-creating it repeatedly) did not work.