Chapter 10. Building Custom Controls

In this chapter, we describe how to develop custom controls, including extending existing controls, building composite controls, and creating controls that provide their own rendering. Coverage includes adding animation to custom controls, creating controls for multithreaded applications, and incorporating your custom controls into the Windows Forms Designer Toolbox in Visual Studio .NET. We also present key background information, discuss design issues, and demonstrate recommended coding practices.

Custom Controls

The .NET Compact Framework provides you with a variety of features for creating applications. Included among these features are the controls in the Toolbox. Sometimes the functionality of the built-in ...

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