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In this article, I'll be showing how you can generate a dynamic MenuStrip (.NET 2.0's replacement of the MainMenu control) via an XML Configuration file using recursion in C#. The MenuStrip will be based on XML data which contains all the details about the generated Menu. Things like: Caption, Name, Text, and the corresponding Event it has to trigger when a user clicks a MenuItem.

This is a generalized re-usable control written in such a way that it can be easily plugged in to any application based on the applications requirements.

This article will show how to implement a custom ASP.NET Tree View control that supports auto binding from a self referencing table. The control supports binding from a Data Source control or programmatically using the Data Source property.

The Xpander Library offers the option to store many user controls in one single document formular. Optionally visible or non-visible. The Xpander controls follows optically the MS Office style. All the controls supports visual designer and smart tag features.

RadioButtonList and ListBox subclasses that display Enum values automatically

A progress list for displaying the status of various tasks

A library to parse and evaluate Excel-style formulas and recalculate in natural order

Library to manipulate icons and icons libraries with support to create, load, save, import and export icons in ico, icl, dll, exe, cpl and src format. (Windows Vista icons supported).

Adding designing capabilities and visual feedback by creating a container component that behaves like Qt Layouts. Automatically adjusting size and position of contained components as the container resizes.

This article describes ColorTextBox, a customizable UserControl which was written completely from scratch and is intended to fill the gap between the TextBox and RichTextBox controls found in the .Net 2.0 library.