.NET Framework - Windows Forms Control Library

Asked By Derek Hart

05-Mar-09 07:55 PM

I have a vb.net winforms application that I need to allow others to host
inside other winforms applications. I have just learned of the Windows Forms
Control Library. Can I make a control inside the Windows Forms Control
Library that inherits a form from the main winforms project. I simply don't
know the steps inside the control to inherit it properly and show the form.

27-Mar-09 04:10 AM

Hi Derek,

If by Windows Forms Control Library you mean the project template in Visual
Studio, that is just a regular library project with a UserControl instead of
a Class file preadded as well as the necessary references to
System.Windows.Forms library.

To use and inherit from any library you simply need to add a reference to
the library.

using System.Windows.Forms;

public class MyButton : Button
{
}

The Button class resides in the System.Windows.Forms.dll so to be able to
inherit from Button you need to add a reference to System.Windows.Forms.


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Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

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