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Thank you for your comments. This is a known design time limitation that we will not be addressing in this Visual Studio 2005 release. We will look at improving this in future versions.
Form designer doesn’t allow to modify properties of all new for .Net Framework 2.0 controls
(ToolStrip, MenuStrip, ContextMenuStrip, StatusStrip, TableLayoutPanel, FlowLayoutPanel, DataGridView, BindingNavigator) belonging to inherited form even if the value of access modifier on parental form has been established to public or protected. Nevertheless all these properties can be modified in the program code of inherited form.
We don’t have the same problem with controls, which already existed in .Net 1.1 (TabControl, Panel, TextBox, Button… and others).