Component Authoring Walkthroughs

Caution

This content was written for .NET Framework. If you're using .NET 6 or a later version, use this content with caution. The designer system has changed for Windows Forms and it's important that you review the Designer changes since .NET Framework article.

The following step-by-step topics will help you learn how to create a component or a control for Windows Forms. For more information about creating custom controls for Web Forms pages, see Developing Custom ASP.NET Server Controls.

In This Section

  • Walkthrough: Authoring a Component with Visual Basic
    Shows the development in Visual Basic of a simple component, illustrating the interaction between client and component, object lifetime and circular references, debugging clients and components, and the use of shared methods and instance methods.

  • Walkthrough: Authoring a Component with Visual C#
    Shows in Visual C# the development of a simple component, illustrating the interaction between client and component, object lifetime and circular references, debugging clients and components, and the use of shared methods and instance methods.

See Also

Reference

IComponent

Component

IDesigner

TypeDescriptor

TypeConverter

UITypeEditor

Other Resources

Extending Design-Time Support