Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++® .NET in 24 Hours

Hour 23. Control Class Libraries

It's been estimated that the market for custom controls and components will be in the billions of dollars in the coming years. Beginning with the emergence of COM and ActiveX, companies are realizing the full potential of code reuse through component-based architectures. Through the use of custom controls and components, you can save precious development time and money that is better spent on the more important aspects of your project. Just as Henry Ford revolutionized the manufacturing process with the application of assembly lines, component-based architectures have done the same for software development.

Creating custom controls with the previous version of Visual Studio meant using COM and, more specifically, ...