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Using Custom Controls with C# .NET

Even though using a custom control within Visual C++ .NET is fairly easy, using it within other .NET languages is even easier due to the support of the Windows Form Designer, which Visual C++ .NET currently lacks. You will now create a C# Windows application similar to the Visual C++ .NET test harness you created earlier.

For reasons that will become clearer in a moment, open a new instance of Visual Studio .NET rather than adding the C# project to your current solution. Click New, Project from the File menu and select Visual C# Projects from the list of project types and select Windows Application from the list of project templates. Give your project the name CSharpTestHarness and click OK to create the project. ...