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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Winforms Control Set for Silverlight and FLASH

by Don Burnett

Over at Tim Sneath's Blog, Tim blogs about company called Netikatech.com who has created a bunch of cool new custom controls for both Silverlight and Flash. These controls are very cool because they have implemented the Winforms control library. This is a big step ahead for Silverlight, because you can now do in Silverlight most of the controls you see in regular Windows application in either Flash or Silverlight.

This means you can port a whole Windows Application UI over to the web and it makes porting real .NET applications to the web and a universally viewable platform possible.

Here's some examples (clicking on the graphics will bring up the Silverlight demo):

A typical tab control with buttons and radio buttons

Office-style toolbars

A datagrid

Outlook style calendaring UI

A visual studio style designer for the web

Check em out they are worth your time if you are doing Silverlight or Flash..

The GOA System.Windows.Forms core library includes 40+ standard controls and components:

  • Control, ContainerControl, ScrollableControl, Panel
  • Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, GroupBox, Label
  • TextBox, NumericUpDown
  • ImageBox, ImageList
  • ScrollBar, HScrollBar, VScrollBar
  • Form, MessageBox, Cursor
  • ListBox, CheckedListBox
  • ComboBox
  • TreeView
  • MonthCalendar
  • TabControl, Splitter
  • ToolTip, ProgressBar, Timer
  • ToolStrip, StatusStrip, MenuStrip, ToolStripButton, ToolStripComboBox, ToolStripDropDown, ToolStripLabel, ToolStripProgressBar, ToolStripSeparator, ToolStripSplitButton, ToolStripTextBox
  • XamlCanvas (Silverlight specific)

GOA WinForms Professional is the perfect solution for GOA developers who want to integrate high-end controls in their existing RIA applications. In addition to the System.Windows.Forms core library, GOA WinForms Professional includes a set of advanced controls for quickly creating rich user interfaces:

  • The standard WinForms controls of the free edition
  • A sophisticated Data Grid
  • More than 30 extended controls and components

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