Controls and Programmable Objects Compared in Different Languages and Libraries

This topic lists Visual Basic 6.0 controls, Windows Forms controls, ASP.NET and HTML server controls, MFC and ATL classes, and Visual FoxPro objects.

All the Visual Studio languages can access the controls exposed by Windows Forms, ASP.NET server, and HTML server.

Table of Controls

Visual Basic 6.0 object	Windows Forms control	ASP.NET server control 1	HTML server control	MFC class	ATL class	Visual FoxPro object
ComboBox	ComboBox	DropDownList	n/a	CComboBox Class	n/a	ComboBox
ImageCombo	ComboBox	n/a	n/a	CComboBoxEx Class	n/a	Image
CheckBox	CheckBox	CheckBox CheckBoxList	HtmlInputCheckBox	CButton Class	n/a	CheckBox
CommandButton	Button	Button LinkButton ImageButton	HtmlInputButton HtmlButton	CButton Class	n/a	CommandButton
Frame	GroupBox Panel FlowLayoutPanel TableLayoutPanel	Panel	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
OptionButton	RadioButton	RadioButton RadioButtonList	HtmlInputRadioButton	CButton Class	n/a	OptionButton OptionGroup
CommonDialog	FileDialog PrintDialog ColorDialog FontDialog	n/a	n/a	CCommonDialog Class	n/a	CommonDialog GETFILE( ) GETDIR( )
ListBox	ListBox	ListBox	HtmlSelect	CListBox Class	n/a	ListBox
FileSystemObject	Classes in System.IO	n/a	n/a	CFile Class	n/a	Miscellaneous functions
HScrollBar VScrollBar	HscrollBar VscrollBar	n/a	n/a	CScrollBar Class	n/a	n/a
COOLBar	ToolStrip	n/a	n/a	CReBarCtrl Class	n/a	Toolbar
Label	Label	Label	n/a	CStatic	n/a	Label
TextBox	TextBox	TextBox	HtmlInputText	CEdit Class	n/a	TextBox EditBox
MaskedEdBox	MaskedTextBox	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Menu	ToolStrip MainMenu ContextMenu	Menu	n/a	CMenu Class	n/a	Menu commands
Animation	Images on controls support animated GIFs	n/a	n/a	CAnimateCtrl Class	n/a	Image
Form	Form	n/a	HtmlForm	CDialog Class CFormView Class	CDialogImpl CWindow CWindowImpl Class	Form FormSet
Timer	Timer	n/a	n/a	CWnd::SetTimer	n/a	Timer
DataGrid	DataGridView DataGrid	GridView DataList Repeater	HtmlTable	n/a	n/a	Grid
DateTimePicker	DateTimePicker	n/a	n/a	CDateTimeCtrl Class	n/a	n/a
ImageList	ImageList	n/a	n/a	CImageList Class	n/a	ImageList
ListView	ListView	n/a	n/a	CListCtrl Class	n/a	ListView
Internet Transfer	WebBrowser Classes in System.Net	n/a	HtmlInputFile	CHttpConnection Class CFtpConnection Class	n/a	Web Browser
MonthView	MonthCalendar	Calendar	n/a	CMonthCalCtrl Class	n/a	Calendar MonthView
ProgressBar	ProgressBar	n/a	n/a	CProgressCtrl Class	n/a	ProgressBar
PictureBox	PictureBox	Image	HtmlInputImage	CPictureHolder Class	CImage Class	Image
RichTextBox	RichTextBox	n/a	n/a	CRichEditCtrl Class	n/a	RichTextBox
SSTab TabStrip	TabControl	n/a	n/a	CTabCtrl Class	n/a	SSTab
StatusBar	StatusStrip StatusBar	n/a	n/a	CStatusBarCtrl Class	n/a	StatusBar
Slider	TrackBar	n/a	n/a	CSliderCtrl Class	n/a	Slider
Toolbar	ToolStrip Toolbar	n/a	n/a	CToolBarCtrl	n/a	Toolbar
TreeView	TreeView	TreeView	n/a	CTreeCtrl Class	n/a	TreeView
UpDown	NumericUpDown DomainUpDown	n/a	n/a	CSpinButtonCtrl Class	n/a	Spinner
WinSock	Classes in System.Net	n/a	n/a	CAsyncSocket Class	n/a	WinSock

1. ASP.NET includes Web server controls that offer functionality not available with Visual Basic 6.0 controls, such as a calendar control, Web page navigation controls, and Web site user login controls. For more information, see ASP.NET Server Controls.

See Also

Concepts

Control Classes

Other Resources

Windows Forms Controls

ATL Window Classes

Language Equivalents

Windows Forms Controls for Visual Basic 6.0 Users