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I was recently asked how to remove the Editor Parts (Appearance, Layout, Advanced, etc) from custom Web Parts.

One strategy is to implement your own Editor Part and mark the built-in ones as not Visible.

Firstly, we need to create our Editor Part class:

class MyEditorPart : EditorPart
{
    protected override void CreateChildControls()
    {        // this line hides the default EditorParts
        Parent.Controls[2].Visible = false;
        base.CreateChildControls();
    }

    public override bool ApplyChanges()
    {
        // do stuff here
        return true;
    }

    public override void SyncChanges()
    {
        // do stuff here
    }
}

And here’s how we invoke our Editor Part from our Web Part:

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