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A Vista style Progress Bar complete with color property and animation

How to create a panel with a transparent drop shadow in C# using GDI+

I am developing a 4X Space Opera game called Star Odyssey, in the tradition of the Master of Orion series. Every game needs a User Interface and mine is no exception. The DirectX SDK provides a sample UI that looks very cool, but it is very difficult to extrapolate from the project and it relies on textured GUI elements. Since I am not very good at drawing GUI elements, it would have taken ages for me to go that way. Instead, I took the ''programmer art'' way: to create controls and other GUI elements in a dynamic way, trying my best to make it look cool at the same time. The result is presented here.

This article demonstrates a complex analog-style thermometer control in C#. The control is in pure managed code. Most visual elements can be adjusted through the control's properties.

This article examines how to design and create dynamic user interfaces using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Along the way we will explore a demo application which uses XAML for creating a dynamic user interface to display rich and interactive alert messages to the user.

This control can be easily configured to allow input of any value that is a collection of numeric fields, such as an IP address, IP address with ports, IPv6 address, MAC address, telephone number or social security number.

This article is about getting controls found in Windows Vista to make use of the new Windows Vista user interface. Included in the project are some components (Commandlinks, ImageButton, SplitButton) that work just like the Windows Vista themed controls. The article would aim to achieve most of the interface effects (like the fade-in/out) effects seen throughout Windows Vista.

A WPF library to easily integrate Windows docking features in applications like Visual Studio

Fast ComboBox that correctly displays all logical drives with appropriate icon, volumename and drive letter

How to use (and understand) visual style for custom controls with a C# wrapper for the uxtheme.dll