DotNetBar - .NET - V5.5

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A comprehensive solution for all your modern user interface needs. DotNetBar is toolbox of 16 components including: Office 12 style Ribbon Control, Office 12 Style Super Tooltips, auto-hide dockable windows with diamond guides, dockable and floating menus and toolbars, document docking, tab control, tab strip control, Office 12 style Navigation Pane control, Explorer Bar control, Side Bar control, Balloon/Alert control, Advanced Panel Control, Expandable Panel control, Expandable Splitter control and more. Office 12, Office 2003, Office XP and Windows XP Themed styles are part of DotNetBar Appearance package. DotNetBar is a 100% native .NET component that fully supports all .NET languages and all .NET Framework versions.

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DotNetBar V5.5

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What's new in V5.5?

• Office 12 Ribbon Control added
• Office 12 Super Tooltips Control added
• ExpandablePanel control added
• Expandable features added to Navigation Pane control like in Office 12
• DotNetBarManager.HideMdiSystemMenu property added to hide maximized MDI Child menu without creating menu bar in DotNetBarManager
• Bar.CanDockTab property added to control whether bar can be docked as tab to another bar
• TabStrip SelectedTabChanging and SelectedTabChanged is firing when first and last tab isd and closed
• DotNetBarManager.IncludeDockDocumentsInDefinition property added
• Improved active dock document appearance

What's New in V5.3:

• Visual Studio 2005 compatible.

What's New in V5.2:

• New: Document Docking (Fill docking) implemented in DotNetBar Docking Engine
• New: AutoHidePanel.HitTest method added to return reference to DockContainerItem whose tab is at specific location
• New: Bar.DockOrientation property exposed in design-time
• New: Explorer bar scroll bar enabled in design-time
• New: PanelEx.CanvasColor property added to control the base color and color of non-client area
• New: SuspendLayoutDisplay property added to explorer bar to allow you to suspend layout and display of the control
• New: BubbleBar.ButtonSpacing property added to indicate spacing between button
• New: TabStripTabChangedEventArgs.EventSource property added to provide more information about source of the event
• New: MdiWindowListItem.CreateMdiChildAccessKeys property created to provide functionality for assigning the Access Keys to menu items
• New: Feature for prevention of reentrancy into BaseItem.Click event added while event is executing
• New: BarUtilities.SetDockContainerVisible static method added to encapsulate logic for hide/show of DockContainerItem objects
• New: Bar.DockTabClosing event added which is fired just before dock tab is closed by end-user using docking TabStrip
• New: Bar.CanDockDocument property created to indicates whether bar can be docked as document. Default value is false
• New: BarUtilities.CreateDocumentBar static method created to enable one stop creation of document bars
• New: BarUtilities.InitializeDocumentBar static method created to enable one stop setup of existing bars as document bars
• New: TabStrip.MinTabStripHeight property added to return minimum tab strip height for current style and tabs it contains
• New: ComboBoxItem when created outside of DotNetBarManager is not persisting items added through Items collection in design-time

Release Notes for 5.1:

• Global color scheme management implemented for all user interface elements controlled by DotNetBarManager. In addition to fine detailed level control over all colors for UI elements now DotNetBarManager provides a centralized way of managing the color schemes. DotNetBarManager.ColorScheme property has been created to represent color schemes for all UI elements. DotNetBarManager. UseGlobalColorScheme property is used to specify whether centralized color settings are used
• Explorer bar group item has been enhanced to provide ability to set margin for the sub items it contains
• Improved compatibility with the PropertyGrid control hosted on TabControl
• ItemStyle object that provides appearance options for DotNetBar elements extended to allow more options over background image placement
• Number of other small enhancements

What's New in V5.0

• NEW: New Bubblebar Toolbar control added. See BubbleBar sample project.
• NEW: New ExpandableSplitter with Office 2003 and Mozilla like color scheme and full color customization control created. See ExpandableSplitter sample.
• NEW: SaveLayout and LoadLayout methods extended to support intelligent layout saving and save teared-off dock items and moved buttons with graceful handling of removed items as well.
• NEW: New round-header style added to TabStrip control.
• NEW: New round-header style added to TabControl control.
• NEW: Improved design-time support for SideBar control, drag & drop of external controls onto sidebar possible.
• NEW: Improved design-time support for ExplorerBar control, drag & drop of external controls onto sidebar possible.
• NEW: Improved design-time support for stand-alone Bar control, drag & drop of external controls onto sidebar possible.
• NEW: ExplorerBar.AnimationTime property added to control the maximum animation time while expanding/collapsing ExplorerBarGroup items.
• NEW: Optimized display performance of loading definition files.
• NEW: Bar.SaveLayoutChanges property created to specify whether changes to layout are saved for given bar.
• NEW: Functionality implemented that cancels the docking if Escape key is pressed.
• NEW: New round-header style added to TabStrip control.
• NEW: New round-header style added to TabControl control.
• NEW: Tooltip support for Tab Items implemented. TabItem.Tooltip property created.
• NEW: Braking Change: Themed style removed from eTabStripStyle and TabStrip.ThemeAware property added.
• NEW: Mnemonic support implemented for tabs on TabStrip control.
• NEW: Drop-down shadow effected implemented for ExplorerBarGroupItem.
• NEW: AntiAlias property added to ExplorerBar control.
• NEW: Support for transparent controls hosted on Explorer Bar implemented.
• NEW: Docking Hints updated to reflect VS.NET 2005 B2 docking hints.
• NEW: SimulatedTheme Style created with the horizontal text layout at all times for TabStrip control.
• NEW: SimulatedTheme Style created with the horizontal text layout at all times for TabControl control.
• NEW: VS.NET 2005 tab document like style added to TabStrip control.
• NEW: VS.NET 2005 tab document like style added to TabControl control.
• NEW: Improved active caption display for floating bars with LayoutType=DockContainer.
• NEW: Improved transparent background support for PanelEx control.
• NEW: Expanded menu items will keep their mouse over appearance to be more consistent with default behavior of windows menus.
• NEW: Property sorting in DotNetBar designer is saved and restored between sessions.
• Fixed: Expanded top level menu with mouse cursor over it gets focus if different top level menu is expanded via keyboard.
• Fixed: Clicking on the edge of the sub-items expand button generates click event.
• Fixed: Un docking last tab from bar with automatically synched caption does not adjust bar text.
• Fixed: TabStrip display of scroll arrows improved.
• Fixed: Accelerator keys do not work consistently for controls on tab control.
• Fixed: Changing the PanelEx.ColorSchemeStyle property does not update display in design-time.
• Fixed: Disable end-user customization in DotNetBar designer preview pane.
• Fixed: Improved design-time support for SideBar control, drag & drop of external controls onto sidebar possible.
• Fixed: ComboBoxItem.Copy method does not copy all properties.
• Fixed: GradientAngle on TabColorScheme object properties were not serialized in designer.

These are just some of the DotNetBar features:

• Auto-Hide Dockable Windows, a powerful feature to provide your users with ultimate flexibility and usability when using Dockable Windows
• Tear-Off tabs from Dockable Windows. Your end-users can tear-off tabs from dockable windows or they can dock other dockable windows as a tabs
• True WYSIWYG docking. DotNetBar Dockable Windows and Bars provide you with true What You See Is What You Get docking functionality. Do not guess where your window will be docked based on hard to see outline, DotNetBar shows in real-time position of your window
• Dual style: Office XP and Office 2000 like DotNetBar provides dual style for menus and toolbars that can be changed on the fly
• Dockable toolbars DotNetBar toolbars are dockable and you have full control where they can be docked or whether they can be undocked
• Popup menu and popup toolbars Create popup menus or toolbars simply by setting the PopupType property on your items
• Dockable Tabbed Windows DotNetBar also provides the dockable windows for your applications
• Popup container that lets you popup any Windows Forms Control You can popup any control from toolbar or menu item. See Notepad sample color selector for great example of this feature
• Host any Windows Forms Control on menu or toolbar ControlContainerItem will let you host any Windows Forms Control on menu or toolbar
• Context menus for all your controls DotNetBar provides the extender property to all your controls that allows you to set the context menus with one mouse-click
• Create Office XP like Task Panes Use TaskList layout type to create Office XP like task panes
• Support for up to three different image sizes on toolbars using ImageList With release of Windows XP the user interface guidelines have been changed and up to three different image sizes are recommended for toolbars
• Image container You can store item images directly in DotNetBar which eliminate the need to use ImageList control and simplifies the management of your menus and toolbars since everything is in one place
• Animated menus Create menus that can slide, unfold or fade. DotNetBar provides great flexibility on how these effects are used: use system default settings, set control wide effects or set them for each item
• Personalized Menus Reduces the menu complexity by hiding unused menu items
• Save and Restore Layout and usage data Save and restore complete DotNetBar configuration and usage data in XML based format at run-time or design time
• Automatic Image Processing DotNetBar automatically creates disabled or grayed images from the basic image you provide
• End-Users Customization of Menus and Toolbars DotNetBar lets your end-users customize both menus and toolbars at run-time. You are in full control so you can disable this feature or disabled it only for particular items
• Extensible framework You can create your own items and that way extended DotNetBar functionality
• Window XP Themes support: DotNetBar fully support Windows XP Themes. This means that your user interface will always have the latest visual styles provided by Windows XP
• Color Scheme model: DotNetBar Color Scheme model lets you customize the color of nearly every visible part of DotNetBar menus and toolbars
• Outlook style Side-Bar control is included with the DotNetBar with support for Windows XP Themes