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User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls
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Looking at Themes and Skins
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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Upgrading from MainMenu and ToolBar to MenuStrip and ToolStrip
Step-by-step guide to upgrading menus and toolbars to NET 2.0 and code for improving the user interface.
5 Feb 2006, 02:17:00 Source: Upgrading from MainMenu and ToolBar to MenuStrip and...
Tags: Examples
GUI
C#
XP Style Collapsible GroupBox
This article describes an XP style collapsible GroupBox.
Smart Clients: Craft A Rich UI For Your .NET App With Enhanced Windows Forms Support
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.
25 Jan 2006, 01:45:40 Source: Smart Clients: Craft A Rich UI For Your .NET App With...
Tags: Visual Studio
GUI
Advanced Progressbar
An extended progress bar with support for shape based progress bars and 3D colors.
Explorer Context Menus
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 for .Net v4.0
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.
UI on the Fly: Use the .NET Framework to Generate and Execute Custom Controls at Run Time
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.
14 Nov 2005, 18:52:46 Source: UI on the Fly: Use the .NET Framework to Generate and...
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GUI
Smart Tags: Simplify UI Development with Custom Designer Actions in Visual Studio
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.
14 Jun 2005, 03:00:00 Source: Smart Tags: Simplify UI Development with Custom Designer...
Tags: Visual Studio
GUI

