New control ... suggestions needed

[jedirunner]

I'm writing my first custom control in VS.Net 2003 (will port to 2005
soon). It will be a textbox control with custom painting.

My first question is what control to inherit from? I can't find
S.W.F.UserControl for .Net CF. That leaves the following (that I
can find) as possible base classes:

- Control
- ContainerControl
- ScrollableControl
- Panel

Given that my control will contain a toolbar, 2 scrollbars, and a
custom text area (That's the meat of this custom control), which one
should I use? Given that I also want to better understand they
choices, why should I pick a particular parent class for this
situation?

Thanks!

 

[Daniel Moth]

With CF v1.0 you will have to do a lot of work that is not necessary with
v2.0.

Generally you inherit from Control and take it form there. In v2 you start
with a UserControl. See the 3 links from point 1 here:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/01/desktop-to-ppc-part.html

Cheers
Daniel