I have a custom control with a property defined as follows. The UITypeEditor
is a Windows Form called MergeFieldNameBuilder. How do I pass a variable to
this form from this property? Cannot figure out how to set a global variable
from here, or some other way to pass it in.

    <Editor(GetType(MergeFieldNameBuilder),
GetType(System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor))> _
    Public Property DataField() As String
        Get
            Return _DataField
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _DataField = value
        End Set
    End Property

You can keep the variable you want to pass as a member of the class defining
the DataField property. One of your MergeFieldNameBuilder overriden methods
will get pased an instance of the class, from which you can access the
variable.

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The type editor can access any public method property in your class to edit
by accessing/typecasting the value parameter of the type editor EditValue
method e.g.

public class StringListTypeEditor : UITypeEditor
{
  // Methods
  public override object EditValue(ITypeDescriptorContext context,
IServiceProvider provider, object value)
  {
   object dResult = null;
   if (((context != null) && (context.Instance != null)) && (provider !=
null))
   {
    IWindowsFormsEditorService edSvc =
provider.GetService(typeof(IWindowsFormsEditorService)) as
IWindowsFormsEditorService;
    if (edSvc == null)
    {
       return dResult;
    }
    StringListEditor dEdit = new StringListEditor();
    CaptionsList dVal = (CaptionsList) value; //<=== your object giving all
methods and properties
.......

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