Components and Containers

Components are hosted by containers. A container is a specialized collection class that allows you to track your components, and manages the interaction of your components with other components and the external application environment. The following topics provide information on component-container interaction and describe how to use them in your applications.

In This Section

• Containers, Sites, and Components
  Provides information on components, sites, containers, and how they interact.

• How to: Create Component Containers
  Describes how to create a container for components.

• How to: Extend Component Containers
  Details how to extend component containers to implement custom functionality.

• Communication Between Containers and Components
  Describes how a component interacts with its container.

Related Sections

• Component Authoring
  Provides links to topics on all aspects of component authoring.

• Extending Design-Time Support
  Describes how to implement design-time support for controls and components.