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.

In This Section

Component Programming Walkthroughs: Provides a list of the walkthroughs available for component creation and implementation.
Component Classes: 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: Describes the relationship between a component and its container, and how this relationship affects the architecture of your applications.
Properties Overview: Provides an overview of properties in the .NET Framework.
Raising Events from a Component: Provides links to topics that describe how to raise events.
Design-Time Attributes for Components: Describes design-time metadata attributes for components.
Multithreading in Components: Discusses how to implement multithreading in your components.
User Assistance for Components: Describes how to implement help files for your components.
How to: Display Forms from Components: Demonstrates how to display a form from a non-visual component.
How to: License Components and Controls: Describes how to implement licensing for components.

Related Sections

Language Independence and Language-Independent Components: Introduces the common language runtime, which is designed to simplify the creation and use of components. An important aspect of this simplification is enhanced interoperability between components written using different programming languages.
Extending Design-Time Support: Provides links to a variety of topics related to creating design-time support for your components, such as implementing UI type editors, type converters, and custom designers.

Also see Component Authoring Walkthroughs.