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I want to know a name of library (.dll) or class that generates screen like splash screen in wpf? my application is a winforms(c#) application and i want some animation for it. i need some advices especially how to make a screen with winforms and how to animate my application. a technology like flash does it exist in .net or another technology exists and it can be used in my case?
I wanted a WinForms splash screen sometime ago, I used this as a reference to get me up and running:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5454/A-Pretty-Good-Splash-Screen-in-C
For animations though, like the type you see in modern desktop application splash screens you need to use WPF. You can mix WPF & Winforms.
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I have been tinkering a while with the free opensource flow control (http://silverlightcoverflow.codeplex.com) and with the Datagrid in the Toolkit.
Both are now showing some serious bugs that are quite frustrating. I might be better off just buying a third party control, since Microsoft hasn't updated the Toolkit since over a year now. And the opensource Coverflow control has also been left to die.
What are your experiences with Silverlight controls and are there any recommendations?
Many Thanks,
Telerik makes both a Datagrid and CoverFlow control and is known to have excellent VS integration, support, and pretty good looking controls. They have demos available on their website:
http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/
ComponentArt also makes Silverlight controls (including a datagrid) but does not have a CoverFlow control and is not as well known/respected as Telerik.
http://silverlight.componentart.com/
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Does anyone know of any control libraries that provide layout management functionality along the lines of iGoogle, the BBC website or the blacklight drag drop panel? The blacklight drag drop panel would be fantastic, but the project seems to have been removed from CodePlex.
I'm looking for a sexy drag & drop layout manager to include in my WPF application, and none of the regular control vendors such as DevExpress, Infragistics or telerik include anything like what I want. They provide a Visual Studio style dock manager, but that feels too clunky and difficult to use. I want my users to be able to naturally drag and drop 'widgets' without fighting with the dock manager.
See here for examples of the type of control I'm looking for:
http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/
http://10rem.net/blog/2011/06/27/marketsplus-evolve-ux-inspiration-from-a-great-silverlight-application
I developed Marketsplus Evolve1 (the silverlight app you used as an example). I couldn't find any controls to do what you are after, as I searched for quite a while before we ended up building our own. This isn't a perfect answer, it's just pretty much you are unlikely to find any on the market today.
Cheers,
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what is the best free/open source WinForms "progress bar" control?
(i.e. want a better looking control than the default one in VS2008, and one that has a nice continuous bar)
PS I'm pretty new to .net so I'm not sure at all if there are any popular control libraries (open source) that are widely used or not...
One of the nice things about Windows Forms is that you'll usually get the new look of the common controls on a new version of Windows. That certainly applies to ProgressBar, on Vista and Win7 you get the green continuous bar with the traveling highlight note. No code is required.
If you now see a blocky blue bar then you've either got a really old version of Windows or you've got visual styles turned off. Looking for a replacement for PB is, frankly, a waste of time, look for a replacement of Windows. I recommend Win7.
You can use Krypton controls's progressbar or Progress-O-Doom
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I have seen a lot of Carousels to show off WPF. I have never really need one before now though.
Is there a decent free one?
I have access to the Dev Express one, but I am making an open source project and would rather not put code in it that others cannot easily compile.
After some searching, I (re)found the free and fabulous FluidKit (http://fluidkit.codeplex.com/)
It has many controls that are great. One of them is the ElementFlow. This control has many great views methods. One of them is the Carousel view.
(Just as a side note, after looking at them all I think I like the VForm and CoverFlow views best. They are kind of a carousel like view, but can handle a lot of items with out needing resizing.)
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I want to spice up some gray WinForm apps. Any recommendations for free WinForm libraries.
I have seen AquaButtons at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/buttons/aquabutton.aspx
I am looking for more versatile free libraries which add similar buttons, color gradients to panes, title bars, toolbars.. etc.
Also if you know of sample apps on the web for nice looking, maybe WPF'ish, WinForm apps which I can get some ideas from, that would be great. (I do not plan to put WPF controls in the WinForm apps)
Krypton controls are pretty good
asend.net is a nice simple toolkit of controls. And they're all free.
Even though it is a old post-ill awnser anyways :)
So as of right now there are: (as far as i know)
Material skin - Material design for C#
Metro Framework - adds metro styled controls
LimitlessUI - Made by urs truly... small lib that adds simple controls that are easy to work with