Imported Upstream version 4.6.0.125

Former-commit-id: a2155e9bd80020e49e72e86c44da02a8ac0e57a4

mcs/class/referencesource/System/compmod/system/componentmodel/design/IInheritanceService.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// <copyright file="IInheritanceService.cs" company="Microsoft">
+//     Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
+// </copyright>                                                                
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/*
+ */
+namespace System.ComponentModel.Design {
+    using System.ComponentModel;
+
+    using System.Diagnostics;
+
+    using System;
+
+    /// <devdoc>
+    ///    <para>Provides a set of utilities
+    ///       for analyzing and identifying inherited components.</para>
+    /// </devdoc>
+    public interface IInheritanceService {
+    
+        /// <devdoc>
+        ///    <para>
+        ///       Adds inherited components from the specified component to the specified container.
+        ///    </para>
+        /// </devdoc>
+        void AddInheritedComponents(IComponent component, IContainer container);
+        
+        /// <devdoc>
+        ///    <para>
+        ///       Gets the inheritance attribute of the specified
+        ///       component. If the component is not being inherited, this method will return the
+        ///       value <see cref='System.ComponentModel.InheritanceAttribute.NotInherited'/>. 
+        ///       Otherwise it will return the inheritance attribute for this component.      
+        ///    </para>
+        /// </devdoc>
+        InheritanceAttribute GetInheritanceAttribute(IComponent component);
+    }
+}
+