Form Inheritence

[PGO01]

I have a base form (Form1) which has a panel, fully docked, with it's Modifiers property set to Internal.

I have Form2 that inherits from Form1.

I can't drop controls onto the panel in the Form2 designer, why?

I can do it through code, however.

Is this a bug?

 

[PGO01]

I've set the panel's Modifier property to protected internal and the designer works fine now.

It's obvious when I think about it, protected allows access through inherited classes, internal allows access at assembly level only, but not through inherited classes. I need both, so protected internal it is!

Pete