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Control Basics

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In Windows Forms, everything begins with the Control class—the fundamental class from which every other control derives. The Control class defines the bare minimum functionality that every control needs, from the properties that let you position it in a window to the events that let you react to key presses and mouse clicks.

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© 2006 Matthew MacDonald

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(2006). Control Basics. In: Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C#. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0110-6_2

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