I have a class:

public class Filter
{
    public Filter (string name, string value)
    {
        Name = name;
        Value = value;
    }

    public string Name {get; private set;}
    public string Value {get; set;}
}

And a collection class:

public class FilterCollection : Collection<Filter>
{
   // code elided
}

My component class:

public class MyComponent : Component
{
    // ...

    [Editor(typeof(FilterEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
    [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]
    public FilterCollection Filters { get; set; }

    // ...
}

The problem is that the collection is not serialized correctly by the designer.

I'm sure I'm missing something but I don't know what.

ADDITIONAL INFO

What I would like the designer.cs file to have is something along the following:

myComponent.Filters.Add (new Filter ("some name", "some value"));
myComponent.Filters.Add (new Filter ("other name", "other value"));

Is this feasible?

c# winforms serialization windows-forms-designer
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