Why is there an OnResizeBegin for Forms, but not Controls?

A Windows Form is a type of Control, and Controls are UI elements that have a Size property along with size-related methods such as OnResize and OnSizeChanged.

But Forms also have OnResizeBegin (and OnResize开发者_高级运维End), which are not found in Control. Is this omission an oversight, a prescient design decision, or something else entirely?

OnResizeBegin event is raised when form size is changed by user, not by programmaticaly changing Form properties (like Size). Most of controls can't be sized in such way, so it hasn't OnResizeBegin event.

When you add something to a base class like Control that has such a huge number of descendents, it's going to get inherited by everything whether it makes sense or not (e.g. would many programmers care that a radio button is starting to get resized?). Every method, property and event you add makes an API that much more complicated.

Now there are plenty of other examples of things in Control that don't make sense for every child (e.g. a Leave event on a Label control), but that's part of the contradictory morass that is Forms. The attached property system used in WPF is much more elegant.