BinaryPanelBar .NETÂ# - An MS Outlook (c) 2003 style "Navigation bar" control for the WinForms .NET platform!
Binarymission proudly announces the release of its new .NET control BinaryPanelBar .NET.
BinaryPanelBar .NET will instantly enable your Windows .NET applications with the popular MS Outlook 2003 style Navigation bar . Using the extensive designer suport and in-place editing of objects, display this brilliant navigation / shortcut bar to your application users.
Feature list: br> The controls emulates the Microsoft Office 2003-style "Navigation bar"
MS Office 2003 styled theme rendering: The control comes with out-of-the-box support for rendering the control in all the three popular XP themes, irrespective of the Operating system in which the control is run. Also the theme rendering engine supports custom themes thereby allowing you to set theme rendering custom colors of your choice.
Rich designer support: The control comes with rich design-time support, making it absolutely easy to work with it. There are no "collection editors" to worry about. The design-time features supports full "in-place" editing. Almost everything that you can do with the control at run-time, can be done in the design-time in VS.NET. This includes ability to add, select and remove panelbar button, mouse-hover/mouse-move drawing effects, working with the gripper and minimising panel buttons into the panel bar base surface, working with the (chevron) drop-down context menu, adding / removing buttons from the controls's list of "available" buttons by checking-them-off from the context menu, and many more.
Yes! It is true! Just drag-and-drop, and a couple of mouse clicks! And there you go... the control is all set to do the work for you!
Support for setting custom fonts and colors for various aspects of the control's drawing, including "cool" aspects like the ability to set the color / custom image to use while drawing the chevron button, borders around the panel bar buttons and much more.
The control ships with our BinaryMenuItem .NET component built-in this control, to support VS.NET style menu rendering, for use in the control's context menu system.
Easy to use helper methods to enable adding / removing / enabling / disabling panelbar button items in the control, apart from being able to do these visually at the design-time.
Extensive number of "easy to use" properties to support various features of the control.
Support for rich events : The control raises several events to enrich your applications, including events reflecting core property changes in the panel bar buttons / associated panels and the control itself. Most of these events come with a facility to let you cancel or ignore the event actions.
Other highlights:
Developed completely from scratch, implementing custom painting functionality to provide extended GUI effects! 100% C# .NET code Highly customisable component - exposes various properties to fully customise various display aspects
No Run-time royalties! All you need to buy - is just one license per developer!
Comprehensive MSDN style documentation
Price per developer license :
BinaryPanelBar .NET (Assembly alone/binaries) : US$ 200 [Full C# .NET Source code for the control, is available for a separate price, upon special request]
