How to create a usercontrol that has the same properties of the buttons?

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I want to create a usercontrol, which will have only a picturbox with an image, that has the same functionality of the buttons. So when I put this usercontrol on the form and access its properties window, this window should have the same properties of the buttons and when I click on some property, such as the Text property, the text should appear on top of this picturbox, or when I access the BackColor property the background color should be changed, the same for all other properties.
Does anyone know how I do it? Thanks in advance

Posted 6-Aug-11 7:58am

Edson Rodrigues da Silva

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Don't create a UserControl. Instead, create a class that inherits from the Button control. Enable Owner drawn mode and handle the drawing yourself.

Posted 6-Aug-11 8:17am

Shameel

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-06T09:56:00

Create a custom control derived from Control or Button. For goodness sake, don't even think about using PictireBox — it is designed for very different purposes and won't give you any additional benefits over rendering right in the surface of the control, will only consume memory, CPU time and your development time without any purpose.

Instead, override OnPaint; in this method, use its event arguments parameter, get an instance of System.Drawing.Graphics and use it to render appropriate image, depending on control's status (pressed, mouse hover, default, has keyboard focus…). Change status handling control's event. When the status is changed, don't forget to trigger re-rendering of the control. This is done using Control.Invalidate.

See also: How do I clear a panel from old drawing[^].

See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.onpaint.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/598t492a.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8dtk06x2.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wtzka3b5.aspx[^].

As to the button samples, CodeProject is a good place to search in.

Watch this:
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=Custom+button+%22VB.NET%22&doctypeid=1[^],
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=Custom+button+%22C%23%22&doctypeid=1[^].

Now, pay attention: 7 articles in VB.NET, 47 in C#. Yes, to find good samples and any general help in .NET you really need to understand at least some of C#.

—SA