Summary
I thoroughly enjoy writing about and building components because these satisfying packages offer a big payoff with almost immediate results. Several authors—including Ray Konopka, Danny Thorpe, and Ray Lischner—seem to have specialized in writing books specifically about components. Unfortunately, these excellent books have focused on building components only for Delphi, as far as I can tell.
Chapter 9, although one of the longest chapters in this book, serves as just an introduction to topics related to creating custom components and controls for Windows and the Web. Much more could be written about designers, extenders, control data binding, component and control attributes, Toolbox presentation, component serialization, type editors, ...
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