Adding existing items to collection editor

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I, I've created a component with a collection of controls as property:

<pre lang="C#">[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]
        public List<Component> ControlsToNotTranslate

Then I've created an UserControl, added some controls to it: buttons and labels.
Now I want to add this buttons and labels to the collection of my component via a ConnectionEditor like tool, but when I try to add items to the collection in the Visual Studio Designer, it opens the collection editor and does not give me the chanche to add the already created buttons and labels.

How can I achieve this?

Note

Usually my collection of controls won't contain all controls in the parent UserControl, but only a small amount of them, so I would prefere not to initialize the collection to all controls in the parent UserControl.


Thanks

Matteo