Form designer to first time use of class designer

I have just completed developing a form with a container that has embedded controls. I want to convert the container to a class so I can use multiple instances on a form.

I spent a good bit of time getting things to look and work right in the container on the form designer with the understanding that I can simply bring it into the class designer when I have the bugs out.

Now it appears that I need to build the class one control at a time. Is this correct? Are there shortcuts I should be aware of? Would I have been better off developing in code to avoid duplicating effort when moving to class designer?

Thanks in advance for your help , Joe

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