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An article presenting a control capable of adding a border-like effect to any desired text

A Gauge control developed using GDI+ with Aqua Skin.

A library for creating pickers: controls that display rich drop-down UIs

A component that will find similar words in a lexicon as the user is writing on to make it easy to complete for the user. To use in Win32 graphical or Console applications.

The 4-in-1 ComboBox class is a control that you can add to your projects and tweak its properties for the desired look and feel. The most important feature of this power control is its ability to keep the DropDownBox active while the user checks items.

This article presents a component that is used to add a sort indication image to GridView columns.

The Internet provides a lot of sites that show how you can add some sort of sort indicator to a GridView, but all do this for a single GridView. Our application has quite a lot of GridViews that need this feature and therefore I decided that a component would be the right way to go. A component has the advantage that I have to code the behaviour just once and not for every single GridView over and over again.

The rest of this article shows you how you can use the GridViewSortExtender (that's the name of the component) and how it work on the inside.

FastTreeView control is a control in which nodes dynamically load themselves while expanding. It is characterized by high performance, lower memory consuming and more abilities:

• Individual sorting for nodes
• Advanced ownerdrawing support, including measuring of nodes
• Multiselection
• Individual events individual for nodes

Creating a rich OutlookBar in XP or Vista style

This printing utility is a combination of two efforts. It has the ability to print the content of user controls and it is, moreover, an attempt to create an "all-in-one" printing utility. The latter is an integration into a single control of what is otherwise spread across several standard dialogs for printer properties, page setup options and print previewing..

One new features in Visual Studio 2005 is the support for smart tags.A smart tag is a panel that displays next to a control and contains a list of commonly used properties.