title: Creating your own component in vb.net 2008
body: <p>How do you create your own custom component for vb.net 2008? I want it to simply output to a .dll, not a whole winforms app.</p>
  
  <p>So, here is what I have done so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Made a class library project</li>
  <li>Added a custom control object</li>
  <li>Confused myself badly</li>
  <li>Googled it, to no avail</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>How can I control the component? For example, I want my component to not have a visible design view, I want it to stay below like the stopwatch component and the notifyicon component and such, it is not something to be designed. Then, how do I edit the possible properties a user can control, and make them effect the end result? What do I place the code which powers the component on? The class library file, or something else?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help! I have a whole set of components I am going to create, this will get me going much faster than trial and error.</p>