.NET Windows® Forms Custom Controls

Summary

With the OutlookBar, custom tab collection, and designer in place, the final product is almost complete. This chapter has covered a lot of new ground pertaining to control development and the implementation of a much more sophisticated designer. At this point, extending the current control to add additional features merely requires some imagination and extending the use of the services provided by the .NET base class library covered so far. The goal has been to build on knowledge gained in previous chapters and to apply that knowledge in incremental steps toward the final goal, which is to gain a solid understanding of custom control development.