By Don Burnett
Denis Basaric of DevComponents emailed me to let me know about some really cool new things going on over at DevComponents including their new DotNet Bar control for WPF. This includes a new high-performance Advanced Window control with Office 2007 style and custom styling support which allows you to style every single part of the window including title bar, border and system buttons.
Here is screen-shot of the custom style applied to Advanced Window:
You can find complete source code for this style in RibbonPad sample project included with new release.
DevComponents have also added Live Preview support to Ribbon buttons as well as better support for Windows Forms controls in Wpf-Dock control through DockSite.DockHintOverlay property. When set, it uses different overlay implementation so docking hints are displayed on top of windows forms controls.
Also included are fixes for issues that were discovered since last release. DotNetBar™ for WPF now includes Wpf-Ribbon and Wpf-Dock controls that were previously released to help you create professional WPF applications with ease. Wpf-Dock is fully featured Docking control with Auto-Hide functionality, Document Docking, Diamond Docking guides and much more. It is also first control of its kind in Office 2007 style with stock Blue, Silver and Black color schemes as well as custom color creation algorithm based on single color so you can create great looking color schemes by specifying only single color. You can read more about Wpf-Dock at: http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar-wpf/.
Make sure to check out the RibbonPad sample included with DotNeBar for WPF. It shows both Wpf-Ribbon and Wpf-Dock controls working together.
You can download fully functional trial version at http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar-wpf/
The license is only $249 and source code license is available. There are no run-time royalties you can distribute it freely with your applications. You can install it on your desktop, laptop and build machine without additional licenses. You also get 12 months of all and any updates, regardless whether they are minor or major.
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