I'm trying to take a big step with my programming experience but I'm not having any luck. I'm using Visual Studio.NET and largely VB.NET at that. What I am attempting to do is create a custom control to use in card games. Yes, I know that other dll's and ocx's exist, but that doesn't show me how it is done. I have an idea, which may be incorrect, of creating a class for a deck of 52 cards...each card being a class of its own.

I have learned some basics to VB.NET graphics and have drawn a rectangular box, filled in with a color, moved it around without flicker, but if, say, a button control moved over the rectangle, the rectangle under the button would disappear. So this is why I reasoned a custom control may be better than just several instance objects. I'm looking for much advice and guidance with this, so I can move to bigger and better projects. If anyone is willing to help, please email me at [email protected] and thank you in advance.