How to change default values in inherited control yet allow to reset their values with instance's designer?

Question

Consider following scenario:

1. Create new custom control inherited from DataGridView named MyDataGridView .
2. Open MyDataGridView in designer.
3. Change AllowUserToAddRows property of MyDataGridView custom control to false .
4. Use MyDataGridView instance in form.
5. Change AllowUserToAddRows property of the MyDataGridView instance to true .

What I expect would happen: my instance should allow user to add rows. It doesn't. The moment I run build, the property of the instance is reset to the value set in MyDataGridView definition.

So I'm obviously doing it wrong. How to do it right?

I want MyDataGridView to have a different set of default values for properties than standard DataGridView , but yet those properties should remain editable in application's designer. What is the most straightforward mean to achieve this?

Example

Answer 1

Ok, here's one way of doing this, but it's terrible! I'm still looking for an easier way:

using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Test {
    public partial class MyDataGridView : DataGridView {

        bool _AllowUserToAddRows;
        [Category("Behavior")]
        [Description("Value indicating whether the option to add rows is displayed to the user")]
        [DefaultValue(false)]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        public new bool AllowUserToAddRows {
            get { return _AllowUserToAddRows; }
            set { base.AllowUserToAddRows = _AllowUserToAddRows = value; } }

    }
}