title: How do I make my controls inside a winforms UserControl private?
body: <p>I would like to make the controls inside my user control private, so that only the methods/properties I choose to expose are accessible.</p>
  
  <p>I found this similar question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/300255/how-do-i-make-my-controls-inside-a-usercontrol-private">How do I make my controls inside a UserControl private?</a></p>
  
  <p>However, I would like to know how/if this can be done in windows forms (not wpf.)</p>
  
  <p>It seems like something that should be really simple... what am I missing?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: In response to some of the comments/answers, I just want to make it clear that I am using VB.net for which the default modifier for a control is "friend", not "Private".</p>