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Wow. You're asking a huge question. There is no one source for learning how to make custom controls from scratch, just like there is no one source for learning how to make Windows Forms apps.

What's usually forgotten on people new to programming, or with little experience, is that the UI portion of an app or control makes up less than half the total code. The primary function of either of these code bases is data management.

Just about everyone who plays them doesn't realize that games are some of the most specialized, high-performance database applications you'll find.

The questions becomes how are you going to manage the data that the control is going to render? Are there any controls that you can use as a base that approximate what you want to do? If so, then a large chunk of your work is done. Why reinvent the wheel?

I don't have any articles or websites that tell everything about making custom controls. These are topics that can take up entire books. What you need to be doing is research. Picking up the books on VB.NET/C#/Whatever and going through them. Finding different custom controls and seeing how they work. Pick them apart and study them. Did you know that the Form class is nothing but an implementation of Control? Hmmm...

That's how I figured it out...



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