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Developing Win Forms Controls

The Win Forms framework provides many controls such as buttons, check boxes, drop-down lists, and many more that can be used to build sophisticated client-side Windows applications. However, customers often have a need for additional custom controls. This section describes how you can develop a custom Win Forms control by building on the basic user interface functionality that is provided by the Win Forms framework.

The section contains the following topics:

Overview of Win Forms

Win Forms Component Hierarchy

Walkthrough: Developing a Simple Win Forms Control

Properties in Win Forms Controls

Events in Win Forms Controls

Packaging and Deployment

Databinding in Win Forms Controls

Security in Win Forms Controls

Win Forms controls can be used in Win Forms applications, hosted in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and higher, and can be packaged as Active X controls.

The custom controls that you create can be licensed, a designer such as Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0 will verify the license before allowing a user to add the control to the form designer. For information about licensing see Licensing Components and Controls.