Chapter 7. Integrating Components with Visual Studio .NETVisual Studio .NET presents a great deal of information about controls and other components you use in the development environment. When you drag a component from the toolbox into your project, VS.NET appears to know everything about itthe events and properties it supports are displayed in the property panel, neatly categorized, with a short description available for each member. Some controls have their own unique interactive editing features. Many add extra items to Visual Studio .NET's menus . You might suspect that this level of extensive and often highly specialized support is something that is available only for the built-in controls, but that is not the case. Visual Studio .NET has a very open architecture for allowing components to customize the way in which they integrate with the environment. |