Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Creating the custom control

Now we will need to create our first custom control. Guess where? That will be created in the class library project. As the main application has a reference to the library already added to it, so it will automatically get the public class types or controls that we are going to create here.

So, right-click on the library project. From the context menu, click on Add | New Item... as shown in the following screenshot:

In the Add New Item dialog window, expand Installed | Visual C# and select the item type Templated Control as shown in the following screenshot. It's nothing but the type to create custom controls. Give ...