Programming with Components How-to and Walkthrough Topics

The following lists contain links to How-to and Walkthrough topics found in the conceptual documentation for component authoring.

How-to Topics

General

• How to: Display Forms from Components

  Also see Component Authoring Walkthroughs or Component Authoring Walkthroughs.

Multithreaded Components

• How to: Use Components That Support the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern.

• How to: Implement a Component That Supports the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern.

• How to: Implement a Client of the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern.

• How to: Create Threads.

• How to: Coordinate Multiple Threads of Execution.

• How to: Log Events for Multithreaded Components.

• How to: Manipulate Controls from Threads.

Components and Containers

• How to: Create Component Containers.

• How to: Extend Component Containers.

User Assistance for Components

• How to: Specify a Help File for Your Component.

• How to: Provide Metadata Descriptions About Your Component.

• How to: Provide Metadata for Component Properties, Methods, and Events.

Design-Time Support

• Extending Design-Time Support How-to and Walkthrough Topics

Walkthrough Topics

• Component Programming Walkthroughs.

• Walkthrough: Implementing a Component That Supports the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern.

• Walkthrough: Authoring a Simple Multithreaded Component with Visual Basic.

• Walkthrough: Authoring a Simple Multithreaded Component with Visual C#.

See Also

Other Resources

Component Authoring

Programming with Components