In Brief

This chapter has quickly covered the complicated world of control development in .NET. Among the important points of the chapter were:

• Inheritance provides a quicker and easier way to add functionality to an existing control.

• User controls are still available and useful in Visual Basic .NET.

• Drawing your own control is easy to get started with, and very hard to get right.

• Non-visual controls can also be created and used in your applications, extending the world of control development outside of the proposed UI.