Summary

Visual Studio .NET has greatly simplified the process of creating custom controls. Because this is the case, the soon-to-be billion-dollar control market will increase even more due to the increased number of controls that will likely result. The question you still have to ask yourself, however, is what language to use for your creating controls. As of this writing, Visual C++ .NET does not have a Windows Form Designer. Based on this fact, do you immediately rule out Visual C++ .NET in favor of one of the other .NET languages? As I've said before, you have to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each language and decide for yourself based on your project objectives.

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