>>>>And the product is called Visual Studio and everything is class based - what a joke.
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>>>The fact that there isn't much visual inheritance in VS does not make it a joke. The visual is the preview that you have in all of your design efforts. I like the fact that everything is class-based.
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>>Well said. Besides, how often do we subclass GUI components (in any development environment)?
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>I think subclassing them is probably fairly common and a good practice, but visually subclassing them is another story.

I think subclassing the built-in base classes one level (MyTextbox kind of thing) is a good practice. Multiple levels of inheritance I question. It isn't something I have found myself doing very often, that's for sure.