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In this screencast available here we take a look at one of the new features of ASP 2.0 called Themes and Skins. A theme is a collection of property settings that allow a Web page to define a common look and for pages and controls. Themes are made up of elements: skins, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), images and other defined resources.
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Step-by-step guide to upgrading menus and toolbars to NET 2.0 and code for improving the user interface.

This article describes an XP style collapsible GroupBox.

Windows Forms 2.0 is far richer than any Windows application development platform that preceded it, with tons of improvements across the board. And they're all waiting for you when you create a new Windows Forms project.

An extended progress bar with support for shape based progress bars and 3D colors.

Mini-XMenus is a .NET component that adds custom menu items to the Windows Explorer context menu. Menu items can be selectively shown based on which items are selected in Explorer. Menu items can include custom icons, fonts and colors, sub-menus, separators and help tips. Explorer menu items may also be drawn from scratch with full OwnerDraw support.

Nevron User Interface Suite is the only suite on the market with such a remarkable render quality and speed. Explore rich and powerful docking library, professional and extensible command bars and set of extended Windows Forms controls designed to bring to your Windows Forms applications the latest GUI standards and technologies. The suite introduces lots of new custom controls which makes it easy to create distinguished, stylish and modern end-user presentation layer.

Creating UI controls on the fly can be accomplished via run-time code generation. And there are lots of reasons to do so. Generating these controls once and then reusing them as needed is more efficient than generating the controls each time. Read on.

Windows Forms 2.0 components expose smart tags by utilizing Designer Actions. By taking advantage of this feature, you can add smart tags to your own custom components to make setting their properties and other actions much easier and developer-friendly.