I have been trying to figure out how can i get the items from a collection at design-time. for example:

I have a component which exposes a collection property, let say i add this component to a form and add some items to the collection at design time.

now i have a control with a property of type myitemcollection and want this property have a dropdownlist, when i click the dropdown button, i want to show the items from the collection.

Any ideas...