Custom Controls and Design-Time Support: Part 1/2

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Creating custom controls is a key technique in .NET development. This article by Matthew is the first of a two part series where he looks at how to create a custom Windows Form control that behaves properly in Visual Studio .NET.Creating custom controls is a key technique in .NET development. A well-written custom control can improve encapsulation, simplify a programming model, and bundle up an important set of functionality into one attractive package - and if you are a control vendor, you can even sell it! However, though custom controls perform wonders at runtime, many act oddly in design mode, don't provide any developer support, and appear with only a generic icon in the toolbox. This article is the first of a two part series (the next part is tomorrow) where we look at how to create a custom Windows Form control that behaves properly in Visual Studio .NET.

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