Visual Studio .NET ships with a nice set of controls and classes to build Windows applications, but with only a little effort, you can augment these controls so they serve you better.

I've provided a sample app and Visual Studio solution with this article that demonstrates when passing user controls between Windows Forms is useful. It includes a control that takes a long time to ...

This marks the first release of the year for Studio Enterprise, a suite of data and UI controls for Microsoft Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 11 support.

Custom controls provide the perfect answer to this problem. Mastering Visual Studio .NET's object-oriented capabilities enables you to design controls that can inherit from existing .NET controls, add ...

In an effort to convince more developers to create Windows Live applications, Microsoft announced this week that it will be adding a series of Windows Live controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox ...

Microsoft will make part of its new enterprise reporting technology available as a Visual Studio control that can be embedded in applications.

Microsoft continues to push forward with Copilot, its AI-powered assistant, which has steadily expanded across the company’s ...

Key Points Visual controls are a means of signaling and controlling potential issues in your production. Displays are similar in concept but aren’t indicators of process status. Visual controls ...