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Custom Button Control with Gradient Colors and Extra Image (VB.NET)

This is a simple to use Custom Button control, but with a lot of visual design options

A Padded Rich Text Box Subclass

A subclass which adds new display properties to a rich text box control.
15 May 2008, 16:59:00   Source: A Padded Rich Text Box Subclass   Tags: GUI Components

A Fine-looking Segmented LED Control

This article describes an approach to constructing a cool segmented LED displayer that is similar to the LEDs used in alarm clocks and industry monitors. This control can be used to display time, numerical values and even some English characters. I hope it will be helpful in programs such as hardware simulators.
12 May 2008, 06:19:00   Source: A Fine-looking Segmented LED Control   Tags: Components Graphics

Photoshop-Style Angle and Altitude Selectors

In this article we will go through the process of creating two C# custom controls to mimic the appearance and behavior of Photoshop angle selectors.
26 Apr 2008, 21:35:00   Source: Photoshop-Style Angle and Altitude Selectors   Tags: Components GUI

Industrial Controls

A library of controls with a custon renderer for use in the controls processes panel display: Leds, Meters, Buttons and Knobs.
11 Apr 2008, 13:09:00   Source: Industrial Controls   Tags: Components GUI

Customizable Tree Control with Animation Support

A tree control implementation, allowing complete customization and animation support.
8 Apr 2008, 11:46:00   Source: Customizable Tree Control with Animation Support   Tags: Components GUI

Animating Interactive 2D Elements in a 3D Panel

This article reviews a custom WPF panel, named Panel3D, which hosts two-dimensional elements in three-dimensional space. You can supply an instance of Panel3D with objects to display, or you can use it as the items host of an ItemsControl. If you use Panel3D as the items host of a ListBox, the front-most item is automatically the selected item in the ListBox. Panel3D arranges its 3D models along a straight path, and provides animated movement of 3D models along that path. In addition, the panel implements a simple form of UI virtualization so that it runs quickly even if it contains hundreds of items..

7 Apr 2008, 23:00:00   Source: Animating Interactive 2D Elements in a 3D Panel   Tags: GUI Components

Navigational history (go back/forward) for WinForms controls

A generic class and two ToolStripSplitButtons provide navigational history, like in web browsers.

Creating a Outlook Navigation Pane by restyling a WPF TabControl

Restyling a standard TabControl to look like a Outlook Navigation Pane
6 Mar 2008, 02:49:00   Source: Creating a Outlook Navigation Pane by restyling a WPF...   Tags: Components GUI

Implementing a smoothly animated ListBox

This article shows how you can implement a smooth list box that allows intuitive, friction affected, scrolling of the list items. By friction based I mean that the user can apply a dragging force i one direction and the list will keep scrolling after the mouse or stylus is released and then slow down by itself.

I've looked at how lists behave on the iPhone and tried to mimic that to a certain extent, but I'm nowhere near anything as cool as what the iPhone presents.

2 Mar 2008, 12:52:00   Source: Implementing a smoothly animated ListBox   Tags: Components GUI