Component Authoring for the Design Environment

This topic provides links to information about component programming in the .NET Framework.

In This Section

• Programming with Components
  Provides links to information about creating your own components or assembling them from the components in .NET Framework classes.

• Extending Design-Time Support
  Describes the rich design-time architecture and support for visual design environments available in the .NET Framework.

• Control Authoring Overview
  Describes how to create custom controls for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and how to support them in the WPF Designer for Visual Studio.

Related Sections

• Building Console Applications
  Describes how applications in the .NET Framework can read characters from, and write characters to, the console.

• ASP.NET Web Applications in the .NET Framework
  Provides links to information about building applications with ASP.NET.

• Windows Forms in the .NET Framework
  Provides links to information about building applications with Windows Forms and GDI+.

• Windows Presentation Foundation
  Provides links to information about building applications with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).