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.

Visual Basic Note
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
  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

• Common Language Specification
  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.