Chapter 15. Building Custom Controls

In this chapter:

Extending Existing Controls 525

Creating Custom Controls 527

Programming the Design-Time Experience 532

The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 includes a powerful set of Windows controls. Although these controls are a subset of what is available to a desktop developer, controls for dealing with a wide variety of data types and interaction scenarios are available. In this chapter, we investigate how you can go beyond the built-in controls. First, we examine extending the functionality of existing controls, and then we look at creating new custom controls from scratch. We create the necessary design-time support so that your controls can be easily used in the Microsoft Visual Studio Form ...

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