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Aqua Gauge

A Gauge control developed using GDI+ with Aqua Skin.
4 Sep 2007, 17:53:00   Source: Aqua Gauge   Tags: GUI Components

Pickers Library: For Creating Pickers in .NET

A library for creating pickers: controls that display rich drop-down UIs
29 Aug 2007, 14:52:00   Source: Pickers Library: For Creating Pickers in .NET   Tags: GUI Components

AutoText V2.2, is a component that will complete the word as the user is writing on. Can be connected to a TextBox or a RichTextBox.

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.

WPF Threads: Build More Responsive Apps With The Dispatcher

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a great technology for creating compelling user interfaces, but that doesn't mean you don't have to take the responsiveness of your application into account. The simple fact is, no matter what type of long-running processes are involved—whether getting large results from a database, making asynchronous Web service calls, or any number of other potentially intensive operations—making your application more responsive is guaranteed to make your users much happier in the long run. But before you can start using an asynchronous programming model in your WPF application, it is important that you understand the WPF threading model. In this article I will not only introduce you to that threading model, but I'll also show you how the Dispatcher-based objects work and explain how to use the BackgroundWorker so that you can create compelling and responsive user interfaces...
21 Aug 2007, 19:00:00   Source: WPF Threads: Build More Responsive Apps With The Dispatcher   Tags: GUI

PowerComboBox with CheckBoxes & Grouping

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.
16 Aug 2007, 10:55:00   Source: PowerComboBox with CheckBoxes & Grouping   Tags: GUI Components

Create Dynamic XAML Forms with the Presentation Model Pattern

This article presents an advanced technique that lets you bind multiple editable line items to a collection using Windows Presentation Foundation and the Presentation Model pattern. It assumes you are familiar with basic WPF data binding techniques as well as design patterns that object-oriented UI libraries typically use. After an introduction to the sample application used throughout this article, you'll see how applying the Presentation Model pattern insulates this application's UI and business logic layers from one another. Finally, you'll see the WPF-specific details involved in binding a Presentation Model to XAML controls to create a dynamic UI with multiple editable line items.
10 Aug 2007, 15:04:44   Source: Create Dynamic XAML Forms with the Presentation Model...   Tags: GUI XML

FastTreeView

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
2 Aug 2007, 10:50:00   Source: FastTreeView   Tags: Components GUI

Rich OutlookBar in XP and Vista style

Creating a rich OutlookBar in XP or Vista style
2 Aug 2007, 09:39:00   Source: Rich OutlookBar in XP and Vista style   Tags: Components GUI

The PropertyGrid: Overriding class attributes

The DynamicPropWrapper class wraps an existing class and filters the property information that the .NET PropertyGrid displays. The purpose for this is mainly to control the ReadOnly and DefaultValues for each property dynamically in code. Other features include dynamic modification of the Categories, Descriptions, DisplayNames, Property sorting order, and more.

  • Two methods for handling default values.
  • Wraps an existing class making it a drop in solution.
  • Override attributes with one line of code.
  • Preserves all existing attribute information that may allready be defined in your class.
  • Add/override any attribute desired.
2 Aug 2007, 04:03:00   Source: The PropertyGrid: Overriding class attributes   Tags: GUI Examples

Build a RichTextBox-Based Syntax-Highlighting Editor and IDE

By using the RichTextbox as a base control, you can build an editor that highlights keywords and quoted strings or even an editor that employs IDE-like smart indentation and runs script code interactively.