Component Authoring
The designers in the .NET Framework make it easy to author components. You can extend their functionality to provide a better programming experience for users of your components.
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| Visual Basic programmers should be familiar with object-based programming concepts, although it is not necessary to have a thorough understanding of inheritance. For more information, see Inheritance in Visual Basic. |
In This Section
- Component Programming Walkthroughs
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Provides a list of the walkthroughs available for component creation and implementation.
- Component Classes
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Describes what makes a class a component, ways to expose component functionality, controlling access to components, and controlling how component instances are created.
- Components and Containers
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Describes the relationship between a component and its container, and how this relationship affects the architecture of your applications.
- Properties Overview
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Provides an overview of properties in the .NET Framework.
- Raising Events from a Component
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Provides links to topics that describe how to raise events.
- Design-Time Attributes for Components
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Describes design-time metadata attributes for components.
- Multithreading in Components
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Discusses how to implement multithreading in your components.
- User Assistance for Components
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Describes how to implement help files for your components.
- How to: Display Forms from Components
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Demonstrates how to display a form from a non-visual component.
- How to: License Components and Controls
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Describes how to implement licensing for components.
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