LoginStatusDesigner.GetDesignTimeHtml Method ()
Assembly: System.Design (in system.design.dll)
If the LogoutText or LoginText property (depending on whether the user is logged in), is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), an empty string (""), or a single space (" "), the GetDesignTimeHtml method sets the LogoutText or LoginText property, as appropriate, to the ID property, enclosed in brackets ("[ ]"). Then, regardless of the setting of the LoginText or LogoutText, the GetDesignTimeHtml method calls the GetDesignTimeHtml base method to generate the markup for the design-time rendering of the LoginStatus control.
Notes to Inheritors: If you override the GetDesignTimeHtml method, be sure to call the GetDesignTimeHtml base method because it eventually, through several override levels, calls on the LoginStatus control or a copy of the control to generate the markup.The following code example shows how to override the GetDesignTimeHtml method in a class that is inherited from the LoginStatusDesigner class to change the appearance of a control that is derived from the LoginStatus class at design time. The example draws a blue, dashed border around the control to make its extent more visible, if the BorderStyle property of the control is the NotSet or None value.