Control Development Changes in .NET

Developing your own user interface controls, or using custom controls you bought or pulled down off the Web, is at the very core of Visual Basic's success. For quite some time, it has been relatively easy to create a custom UI control and share it with other programmers, and the result is that a huge number of both commercial and free controls are available for use in your Visual Basic applications. The growth of this type of reusable component was given even more of a boost when Visual Basic 5.0 came out with the capability to create your own controls right inside Visual Basic. Suddenly, every Visual Basic developer had the tools necessary to build their own controls; this has become one of the most common ...

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