<p>Are there any tools or plugins to design a Panel independently of a Form (Windows, not Web Form) within Visual Studio?</p>

<p>I've been using the designer and manually extracting the bits I want from the source, but surely there is a nicer way.</p>

[{'answer_id': 36970, 'author': 'jjnguy', 'author_id': 2598, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2598', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You could just write the code by hand!</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 36976, 'author': 'Chris Karcher', 'author_id': 2773, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2773', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>You could do all the design work inside of a UserControl.</p>\n\n<p>If you go that route, instead of just copying the bits out of the user control, simply use the user control itself.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 36977, 'author': 'Sören Kuklau', 'author_id': 1600, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1600', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>As Chris Karcher said, you should probably use a user control. This will allow easy, VS-supported/-integrated reuse without having to manually fiddle with designer code.</p>\n'}]
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