In Brief
This chapter has quickly covered the complicated world of control development in .NET. Among the important points of the chapter were:
Inheritance provides a quicker and easier way to add functionality to an existing control.
User controls are still available and useful in Visual Basic .NET.
Drawing your own control is easy to get started with, and very hard to get right.
Non-visual controls can also be created and used in your applications, extending the world of control development outside of the proposed UI.
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