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Balloon Tooltips .NET is a powerful .NET component that allows you to create cool customized tooltips for your .NET controls! Some advantages that Balloon Tooltips .NET has over conventional tooltips: multiple line text, sounds, icons, balloon style interface, background color, and foreground color.

DevComponents announces release of DotNetBar 5.6 for VS.NET. New release includes Hyper-Menus feature that lets you create Office 2007 style menus, Office 2007 style drop-down Galleries, all new Wizard control and much more. DotNetBar is toolbox of 17 Windows Forms components that help you create professional user interface with ease.

The AspLib ToolTip is an easy-to-use, professional on-line context help tool for ASP.NET applications that allows developers to easily add in-page help for end-users. The end user just sees an image or text and they see pop-up or window context help that explains a page element. The tips can localize themselves automatically using application culture settings. The built in ToolTip editor allows to create and edit helps easily. The ToolTip uses AJAX technology and help tips are displayed without the need to load anything from the server.

..Managed framework for developing Internet Explorer Browser Modules on GotDotNet. It allows one to write Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) using C#. There have been several example on how to do this including on support.microsoft.com, but no framework that I have seen. So I decided to create a framework for this!

There are several examples:

1) Random Home Page - Allows you to configure a series of urls as your default home page. It will select one at random in the list as the starting point and then cycle through them.

2) Logging - Keep track of the sites that you visit. This logs your activity to a local SQL Server 2005. I hope to creating enhanced phishing filters based on the information it collects.

He has only posted source code for the moment.

Check it out!

Internet Explorer Browser Module Framework

pinEdit is a professional WYSIWYG rich text HTML editor component that is simple to integrate and perfectly appropriate for all applications for which formatted texts are required. Use pinEdit as replacement for text area or as HTML editor for content management. New in 4.1 is support for pinEditPDF add-on.

An extended ListView control that can show multiple images on subitems, lets the user edit subitems with user-defined controls (also image-subitems), contains boolean subitems and can sort columns by date, number, string and image

FastPage- new easy to use, complex vision of optimized Browser - ASP .NET Server talk.

Base principals:

• Easy to use, install and configure
• Minimal changes to existing projects
• More than 10 times optimized traffic between client & server
• More than 10 times faster pages
• No more FEAR upon superfluous PostBack
• No more hard JavaScript, when its easy to use on Server
• Complex controls with many events are not fantasy now
• Support of 99% used browsers (IE, FireFox, Opera, Safari)
• Support of .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0

xPort Tools for .NET is a 100% managed .NET component, which allows develop applications capable to provide extremely fast export of the ADO.NET DataSet/DataTable/DataView into the native Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel XML, CSV or HTML formats without using Excel itself or any additional tools and providers. xPort Tools for .NET provides fast and simple way to transfer your data with the minimum efforts.

This is an assembly used to print reports in text mode. This results in a FAST and LIGHT WEIGHTED printing solution for your .NET application. It support all major printer control command sets (HP-PCL, EPSON-ESC, IBM-Proprinter). Most printer are normally compatible with one of these. The component supports the use of font styles (bold, italic ...), lines and rectangles, fonts, mapping of character sets.... RTextPrinter provides an easy to use api for printing text mode reports. It will handle the communication with the printer and all printer configuration commands in a transparent manner for you.

NCache is a high performance in-memory object caching solution for mission critical .NET applications with real-time data access needs. NCache not only lets you cache read-only data but also complex transactional data with relationships. As a result, your application can cache most of its data and dramatically improve performance.