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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.

A Control that mimics the look-n-feel from iTunes and the iPod manager

DockExtender allows you to add docking / floating / resizing behaviour to any control on your win form with just a few lines of code, making it very easy for your application to support basic docking features.

How to create an animating glass button using only GDI+ (and not using WPF).

Demonstrates the basics of using Aero Glass effects within a .Net managed Win32 forms application.

The DataGridView Windows Forms control is a new .NET control introduced in MS Visual Studio .NET 2005 that is a good alternative to the VS .NET 1.x DataGrid control.

Within the DataGridView .NET 2.x control the data table presentation features became much easier to implement in .NET Windows application. The most attractive features of the new control are:

• It allows for the mix both data bound and unbound, virtual columns in the GridView.
• It has a special virtual mode allowing for the display of more than 100.000 rows without a huge performance hit.
• Individual columns, rows, cells or an entire data source can easily be styled.

Outlook 2003 Style Navigation Pane

A C# (.NET 2.0) control for hosting, and advanced customization of the original Webbrowser control and much more.

Panel with blend and bordercolors

This article presents owner-drawn trackbar control. Component is written entirely from scratch (C#). All painting events are done by code. It's got cool, modern look. The best thing is, however, the capability of changing slider's thumb shape. It is done simply by providing appropriate graphics path.