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Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET
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Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

by Chris Sells, Justin Gehtland
October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
15h 25m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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User Controls

Deriving from an existing control is one way to reuse it, but the most popular form of reuse for a control is simple containment, as you're accustomed to doing when building custom forms using existing controls. A user control is a way to contain a set of other controls for reuse as a set, producing a kind of “subform.” For example, imagine that we wanted a control that composed our FileTextBox control with a “…” button for browsing. In use, it would look like the one shown in Figure 8.21.

Figure 8.21. A Sample User Control in Action

It's hard to tell from the picture, but as far as the form in Figure 8.21 is concerned, it's containing ...

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