Chapter 2. Controls

The System.Windows.Forms namespace defines a class called Control . This class is at the heart of all Windows Forms applications. Any visual element of an applicationwhether it is a window, a button, a toolbar, or a custom user -defined controlis represented by an object of some class deriving from Control .

This chapter describes the role played by the Control class within the Windows Forms framework, and examines the basic behavior that all controls inherit from Control . It also introduces the classes that represent the traditional Windows controls.