Chapter 6. Control Design Concepts

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Building quality custom controls requires knowledge and practice. During the development process, there is a time of discovery. This discovery process includes learning the underlying system, the framework, and the most practical design for the control in order to provide a clear strategy for moving the project forward. To grow knowledge, there must be a starting point from which to begin. The Windows Forms base class library can be used as such a starting point.

By studying the current set of controls and their associated designers and UITypeEditors (see Chapter 5, “Advanced Control Development,” for more information on UITypeEditor ...

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