Controls

There are two differences between the controls and the Office ActiveX controls
1) windows form controls are implemented by extensible managed classes. Office controls are unmanaged
2) windows form controls have no concept of their location in relation to the containing workbook or document
You can use this.Controls collection to enumerate through all the controls

Control	Prefix	Comments
BackgroundWorker		Allows the user to to execute an operation on a separate (dedicated) thread.
Button	btn	Allows the user to run a separate subroutine.
CheckBox	chb	Allows the user to either select or deselect an option.
CheckedListBox	chlb	Allows the user to select multiple items from a list of items.
ColorDialog		(Common Control)
ComboBox	cbo	Allows the user to either select an item from a drop-down box or enter a different item.
DataGridView	dgr	Allows the user to display (and edit) a table of information.
DateTimePicker	dtp	Allows the user to select a specific date and/or time.
DHTML Editing Control	dht	Allows the user to display a web page (not supported).
ErrorProvider
FolderBrowserDialog	fol	(Common Control) Allows the user to browse, create and select folders (not files).
FlowLayout
FontDialog		(Common Control)
Frame = Panel
GridLayout
GroupBox	grp	Allows you to group other controls together.
HScrollBar	hsb	Allows the user to drag a button in order to select a value.
Image = PictureBox
ImageList	img	Allows you to have a repository of images in your assembly.
Label	lbl	Allows you to display text to the user.
LinkLabel	llb	Allows you to include hyperlinks in your text.
ListBox	lsb	Allows the user to select an item from a list of items.
ListView	lsv	Allows the user to select a single (or multiple) items from a list with multiple columns.
MenuStrip	msp	Allows the user to group commands by a common theme.
NumericUpDown	nup	Allows the user to display numeric values.
OpenFileDialog		(Common Control)
OptionButton = RadioButton
PageSetupDialog		(Common Control)
Panel	pnl	Allows the user an area for grouping controls and scrolling.
PictureBox	pic	(Image) Allows you to display a graphic or picture.
ProgressBar	prg	Allows the user to indicate progress using a graphical bar.
PrintDialog		(Common Control)
PrintPreviewDialog		(Common Control)
RadioButton	rad	(OptionButton) Allows the user to select from a list of possible distinct options.
RefEdit	ref
RichTextBox	rch	Allows the user to display text with formatting.
SaveFileDialog		(Common Control)
SplitContainer	spl	Allows you to split an area into two resizeable panels.
Splitter
SplitterPanel
StatusStrip	sts	Allows you to add a status bar to your window.
TabControl	tab	Allows you to display multiple tabs of the same controls.
TableLayoutPanel	tlp
TextBox	txt	(EditBox) Allows you to display text and to allow the user to enter information.
Timer
ToolTip	tip	Allows you to display text when you hover over other controls.
ToolStrip	tls	Represents a panel in a StatusStrip control.
ToolStripButton	tlsb	Represents a selectable item for a ToolStrip control.
ToolStripButton	tlsm
TreeView	tvw	Allows you to display a hierarchy of nodes with parents and child.
UserControl	ucl
VScrollBar	vsb	Allows the user to drag a button in order to select a value.
WebBrowser	wbr	Allows the user to include a web browser on a form.
WebView2	wbv

(View > Tab Order)

If you set the Font property on a form, prior to adding any controls then all the controls will inherit the font style for the form
You can select all the controls using (Ctrl + "A")
You can lock the controls (Format > Lock Controls). This prevents any of the controls on the form being accidently moved.
(Format > Align)
Aligning controls is made a lot easier by having the grid on the form
The alignments and sizing options

ActiveX Controls

You can easily expand the collection of controls that you have access to by loading ActiveX or COM controls.
When you add an ActiveX control to your Toolbox, Visual Studio displays them with the .NET controls and you can use them on your forms with few limitations. Visual Studio must create a wrapper for the control to enable it to be used in a .NET program.

Me.tabMyTabControl.Controls.Find(key:="mytag", SearchAllChildren=True)

bitmaps
icons

The System.Drawing namespace include numerous classes for creating graphics

Line	DrawLine
Rectangle	DrawRectangle
Arc	DrawArc
Circle / Ellipse	DrawEllipse
Polygon	DrawPolygon
Curve	DrawCurve
Beziersplines	DrawBezier

Overloading Handlers

Private Sub Control_OnEvent() Handles Control1.OnEvent, Control2.OnEvent

What is a Custom Control ?

no user interface

Setting Focus

txtTextBox.Select()

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Me.ActiveControl = Me.txtMyTextbox 
Me.txtMyTextbox.Focus