Turn on Description panel in the standard CollectionEditor

I have a component which has a List<T> property. The class in the list has each of its properties decorated with a description attribute but the descriptions do not show up in the Collection Editor

In the IDE designer is there a way to turn on the Description panel in the standard Collection Editor? Will I need to inherit my own type editor from CollectionEditor to achieve this?

Basically, you'd either need to create your own editor, or subclass CollectionEditor and mess with the form. The latter is easier - but not necessarily pretty...

The following uses the regular collection editor form, but simply scans it for PropertyGrid controls, enabling HelpVisible.

/// <summary>
/// Allows the description pane of the PropertyGrid to be shown when editing a collection of items within a PropertyGrid.
/// </summary>
class DescriptiveCollectionEditor : CollectionEditor
{
    public DescriptiveCollectionEditor(Type type) : base(type) { }
    protected override CollectionForm CreateCollectionForm()
    {
        CollectionForm form = base.CreateCollectionForm();
        form.Shown += delegate
        {
            ShowDescription(form);
        };
        return form;
    }
    static void ShowDescription(Control control)
    {
        PropertyGrid grid = control as PropertyGrid;
        if (grid != null) grid.HelpVisible = true;
        foreach (Control child in control.Controls)
        {
            ShowDescription(child);
        }
    }
}

To show this in use (note the use of EditorAttribute):

class Foo {
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public Foo() { Bars = new List<Bar>(); }
    [Editor(typeof(DescriptiveCollectionEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
    public List<Bar> Bars { get; private set; }
}
class Bar {
    [Description("A b c")]
    public string Abc { get; set; }
    [Description("D e f")]
    public string Def{ get; set; }
}
static class Program {
    [STAThread]
    static void Main() {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.Run(new Form {
            Controls = {
                new PropertyGrid {
                    Dock = DockStyle.Fill,
                    SelectedObject = new Foo()
                }
            }
        });
    }
}