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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,
Aaron Bull
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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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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 would like my Windows Forms .NET application to be a bit nicer, having fancy rounded windows corners, non-standard color set, pretty controls.
Though all this is possible to implement with custom ownerdraw, I'd like not to spend much time and take existing free implementation (if any).
Please recommend the choice of yours.
I don't know of any complete free library, but to improve the look or functionality of common .Net controls I'd look at the CodeProject site. There's lots of articles about customizing controls. For example, here's one about making round buttons.
You might need to do owner drawing, but assuming that the license for the code in that or other articles are suitable for your needs you might be able to re-use code without having to write much yourself and some of the articles contain class libraries that you might just be able to reference in your code.
If you want to give your app a Windows 7 look there's also the Windows API Code Pack for .Net
As far as I know, there is no way to do "themes" or "skinning" easily in WinForms. You will have to find/purchase custom controls (or control libraries) that do all of the rendering that you require or do as you mentioned and render your own controls.
If you migrate your application to WPF, you'll find a lot more support for themes and "skinning".
Cheers.
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Quick question:
Is it somewhere available - preferably free / opensource or at reasonable price?
EDIT
To be more precise, there's an example of winforms control (SandGrid from Divelements) what I'm looking for. Forming a tree is important, grouping by isn't necessary.
alt text http://www.divelements.com/net/controls/sandgrid/home1.gif
Vectorlight has a nice set of opensource Silveright controls (TreeView included ) they also have some silverlight tutorials. To download the dlls you must be registered (for free).
If you need the source code, use Reflector.
On Codeplex you can find a treelist/treegrid control. Unfortunately it is under the GPL2 Licence.
http://multicolumntreelist.codeplex.com/
You can find a TreeMap and a TreeView for free in the Silverlight Toolkit.
The Silverlight 4 DataGrid will have Grouping Support as well.
The Telerik suite has just what you need, the TreeListView:
http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#TreeListView/FirstLook
http://www.liquidjelly.co.uk/supersearch/?q=telerik%20silverlight%20treelistview&lang=en-GB
Note: this control is currently in CTP, and unfortunately it's not that cheap.
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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