.NET Windows® Forms Custom Controls

Summary

By now you should realize that there is nothing difficult about developing custom controls. All that is really necessary is to be armed with the information about control base classes and a desire to create your own custom control. This chapter covered the basics of control classes and what it takes to get up and running with building controls. The next chapter deals with the design-time of custom controls, whereas this chapter focused on the runtime behavior. To build professional-quality controls, equal effort must be spent on runtime and design-time. And now, on to the design-time experience.