Controls and Programmable Objects Compared in Various Languages and Libraries

This topic lists Visual Basic 6.0 controls, Windows Forms controls, ASP.NET and HTML server controls, and MFC and ATL classes.

All the Visual Studio languages can access the controls exposed by Windows Forms, ASP.NET server, and HTML server.

Table of Controls

Visual Basic 6.0 object	Windows Forms control	ASP.NET server control 1	HTML server control	MFC class	ATL class
ComboBox	ComboBox	DropDownList	n/a	CComboBox Class	n/a
ImageCombo	ComboBox	n/a	n/a	CComboBoxEx Class	n/a
CheckBox	CheckBox	CheckBox CheckBoxList	HtmlInputCheckBox	CButton Class	n/a
CommandButton	Button	Button LinkButton ImageButton	HtmlInputButton HtmlButton	CButton Class	n/a
Frame	GroupBox Panel FlowLayoutPanel TableLayoutPanel	Panel	n/a	n/a	n/a
OptionButton	RadioButton	RadioButton RadioButtonList	HtmlInputRadioButton	CButton Class	n/a
CommonDialog	FileDialog PrintDialog ColorDialog FontDialog	n/a	n/a	CCommonDialog Class	n/a
ListBox	ListBox	ListBox	HtmlSelect	CListBox Class	n/a
FileSystemObject	Classes in System.IO	n/a	n/a	CFile Class	n/a
HScrollBar VScrollBar	HScrollBar VScrollBar	n/a	n/a	CScrollBar Class	n/a
COOLBar	ToolStrip	n/a	n/a	CReBarCtrl Class	n/a
Label	Label	ListBox	n/a	CStatic	n/a
TextBox	TextBox	TextBox	HtmlInputText	CEdit Class	n/a
MaskedEdBox	MaskedTextBox	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Menu	ToolStrip MainMenu ContextMenu	Menu	n/a	CMenu Class	n/a
Animation	Images on controls support animated GIFs	n/a	n/a	CAnimateCtrl Class	n/a
Form	Form	n/a	HtmlForm	CDialog Class CFormView Class	CDialogImpl CWindow CWindowImpl Class
Timer	Timer	n/a	n/a	CWnd::SetTimer	n/a
DataGrid	DataGridView DataGrid	GridView DataList Repeater	HtmlTable	n/a	n/a
DateTimePicker	DateTimePicker	n/a	n/a	CDateTimeCtrl Class	n/a
ImageList	ImageList	n/a	n/a	CImageList Class	n/a
ListView	ListView	n/a	n/a	CListCtrl Class	n/a
Internet Transfer	WebBrowser Classes in System.Net	n/a	HtmlInputFile	CHttpConnection Class CFtpConnection Class	n/a
MonthView	MonthCalendar	Calendar	n/a	CMonthCalCtrl Class	n/a
ProgressBar	ProgressBar	n/a	n/a	CProgressCtrl Class	n/a
PictureBox	PictureBox	Image	HtmlInputImage	CPictureHolder Class	CImage Class
RichTextBox	RichTextBox	n/a	n/a	CRichEditCtrl Class	n/a
SSTab TabStrip	TabControl	n/a	n/a	CTabCtrl Class	n/a
StatusBar	StatusStrip StatusBar	n/a	n/a	CStatusBarCtrl Class	n/a
Slider	TrackBar	n/a	n/a	CSliderCtrl Class	n/a
Toolbar	ToolStrip ToolBar	n/a	n/a	CToolBarCtrl	n/a
TreeView	TreeView	TreeView	n/a	CTreeCtrl Class	n/a
UpDown	NumericUpDown DomainUpDown	n/a	n/a	CSpinButtonCtrl Class	n/a
WinSock	Classes in System.Net	n/a	n/a	CAsyncSocket Class	n/a

1 ASP.NET includes Web server controls that offer functionality not available with Visual Basic 6.0 controls, such as a calendar control, Web page navigation controls, and Web site user login controls. For more information, see ASP.NET Web Server Controls.

See Also

Concepts

Control Classes

Other Resources

Windows Forms Controls

ATL Window Classes

Language Equivalents