Custom Controls

Question

Can anyone recommend any good website for learning to build customs controls?

Answer 1

Check this !

http://www.devcity.net/Articles/87/1/ssteps_customcontrol.aspx

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Answer 2

Hi tmiller_15,

To my understanding, there are three basic techniques for creating custom Windows Forms controls in .NET, corresponding to three different starting points.
1. You can inherit from an existing control.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996428.aspx
2. You can build a composite control (using the UserControl class as your starting point).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996431.aspx
3. You can write a control from scratch (using Control class as your starting point).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996439.aspx
These methods are in rough order of complexity, from simplest to most complex.

A very informative link about how to create Custom Windows Controls using vb.net.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996443.aspx

Besides, a thread you can refer to
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vsclassdesigner/thread/53007a5b-019c-43db-a666-8cfc70b14f45/

Hope this helps

Regards
Jeff Shan

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