.NET Windows® Forms Custom Controls

Summary

This chapter certainly covered a lot of ground and provides a point of reference for the entire book. With the designer architecture and services detailed in this chapter, you have all the basic information you'll need in order to create advanced controls. I suggest reviewing the various base classes and interfaces presented here before moving on to the remainder of the chapters.

The next four chapters are dedicated to building a fairly complex control, along with designers and custom editors. Many of the designer services, classes, interfaces, and attributes listed in this chapter will be used during the construction of the OutlookBar, aka the Shortcut Control.