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Charles Petzold continues his exploration of multi-touch Manipulation events in the Windows Presentation Foundation and shows you how to design custom classes to decorate elements and provide visual feedback to users.

A platform independent game that runs on Windows,Mac and Linux

Provides an administrative UI to manage custom properties for a SharePoint site

Firefox like circular progress indicator

Create a dynamically resizable wizard form

SonicUI is a GUI Engine based on nake GDI APIs. It offers several simple UI components to accomplish high efficiency UI effects, such as self-draw buttons, irregular windows, animation, URL in windows and image operation methods. The main purpose is to use least code to achieve best effects.

With this .NET library, you can implement a customize toolbar function in your application.

With many applications, spell checking can be a vital aspect to include. Most people are accustomed to the spell checking capabilities of products like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. There are products available for purchase that can add spell checking capability, such as SharpSpell that can cost hundreds of dollars. Unfortunately, there is a lack of Open Source, freely available tools that can provide the functionality of Microsoft Word. That is why I began to work on a spell checking IExtenderProvider that could extend any control that inherits TextBoxBase (both TextBox and RichTextBox inherit TextBoxBase).

4-in-1 ComboBox with CheckBoxes, Grouping, BackColor and ItemHover event

User-driven applications are the programs in which full control is given to the users. Designers of such programs are responsible only for developing an instrument for solving some task, but they do not enforce users to work with this instrument according with a predefined scenario.