---
title: SAIFPanelDesigner
summary: API reference for SAIFPanelDesigner.
status: draft
owner: SAIF Documentation Team
last_reviewed: 2026-08-17
library: SAIF.Presentation.Web.Controls.V2
reference_type: package
---

# SAIFPanelDesigner

`SAIFPanelDesigner` is a `ContainerControlDesigner` that supplies design-time chrome (frame caption and style) for `SAIFPanel` in the Visual Studio WebForms designer, so a `SAIFPanel` placed on a design surface shows a labeled, styled frame rather than a blank container.

## Purpose
- Improve the design-time editing experience for `SAIFPanel` by rendering a distinct, styled frame with a "SAIFPanel" caption around the control's editable region.

## Context
- Namespace: `SAIF.Presentation.Web.Controls.V2`
- Assembly/package: Compiled into `SAIF.BOF.Presentation.Web.Infragistics103`*

## Public members
| Member | Signature | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `AllowResize` | `Public Overrides ReadOnly Property AllowResize As Boolean` | Delegates to the base `ContainerControlDesigner.AllowResize` (no custom override behavior beyond invoking the base implementation). |
| `FrameCaption` | `Public Overrides ReadOnly Property FrameCaption As String` | Returns the literal string `"SAIFPanel"`, displayed as the design-time frame's caption. |
| `FrameStyle` | `Public Overrides ReadOnly Property FrameStyle As Style` | Lazily builds and returns a `Style` (Verdana, small font, light-blue background, black foreground) used to render the design-time frame. |

## Inherited public members

`SAIFPanelDesigner` inherits from `ContainerControlDesigner` (`System.Web.UI.Design`), a framework base class rather than a documented SAIF dependency library.

| Member | Signature | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `ActionLists` | `Public Overridable ReadOnly Property ActionLists As DesignerActionListCollection` | Design-time smart-tag actions exposed in the Visual Studio designer. |
| `Component` | `Public ReadOnly Property Component As IComponent` | The design-time component instance currently being decorated. |
| `Tag` | `Public ReadOnly Property Tag As DesignerTag` | Helper object used by the designer infrastructure when rendering design-time HTML. |
| `ViewControl` | `Public Overridable ReadOnly Property ViewControl As Control` | Design-time view control used to host or render the component in the designer surface. |
| `GetDesignTimeHtml()` | `Public Overridable Function GetDesignTimeHtml() As String` | Returns the HTML markup shown on the design surface for the associated control. |
| `Initialize(component)` | `Public Overridable Sub Initialize(ByVal component As IComponent)` | Connects the designer to the associated component when design-time editing begins. |

Standard `ContainerControlDesigner` members are not re-documented here as they are unmodified framework behavior**.

## Behavioral notes
- Design-time only; has no effect on runtime rendering or behavior of `SAIFPanel`.

## Constraints and usage notes
- Applies only within the Visual Studio designer (`.designer.vb`/`.aspx` design view); does not affect compiled page output.


> **Note:** Statements marked with * were inferred from code structure, naming conventions, or
> contextual evidence where direct confirmation was not available in source artifacts. Statements
> marked with ** could not be confirmed; treat as unknown until verified.

## Sources
- SAIF.Presentation.Web.Controls.V2\SAIFPanel.vb