Toolbox User Control System Wide Changes By Inheritence Does Not Work. Why?

[Dave L]

I want to create, via inheritance, my own UI control and use it in place of
the stock .NET control in order to make system wide changes easily.

For instance, I would inherit from Forms.Button and make a new class
MyButton. My app would then use MyButton everywhere instead of Forms.Button.
If I wanted a new look-and-feel, I could override the default attributes
from within the MyButton constructor (e.g. color, etc...).

However this doesn't work. Visual Studio picks up any attributes I set from
within the constructor and hard codes them within every
InitializeComponent() that I use MyButton. If I update the MyButton
constructor, all the hard coded InitializeComponent() calls override my
constructor update.

For instance, if the MyButton constructor has:

this.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Top;

When Visual Studio uses my control (placed within the Toolbox), it inserts
this code in InitializeComponent():

this.dsPanelTitleBar1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Top;

How can I fix this?

I am using VS.NET 2002.