Aaron Lerch

I ran across this article (and most specifically this excerpt) in my RSS reader this afternoon:
“Now an entire generation has grown up with a different set of games than any before it. The last thing they do is read the manual. Instead, they pick up the controller and start mashing buttons to see what happens. […]

This link (here) may not be exhaustive (but it might be), but it offers a useful list of attributes that can be applied to custom controls to support better design-time interaction.
I find it useful to be able to right-click a property in the designer and select “Reset” to return it to the control’s default value. […]