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Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)
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Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

by Andy Wigley, Stephen Wheelwright, Robert Burbidge, Rory MacLoed, Mark Sutton
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
19h 58m
English
Microsoft Press
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Inheriting from the Control Class

Inheriting from an existing control is a useful technique if the control you want to build can be described and implemented conveniently using the inheritance relationship "is a." In the previous sample, a text box with numeric-only input "is a" special kind of text box. This is not always the case, especially if the custom control is not closely related to any existing controls or if the custom control is a collection of existing controls.

If the new control is not related to an existing control, you must inherit from a more generic class. The .NET Compact Framework allows the developer to inherit from the Windows.System.Forms.Control class. Figure 18-1 shows a portion of the .NET Framework class hierarchy in ...

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