http://www.devcomponents.com/kb en-us http://www.devcomponents.com/kb ActiveKB NX dbas@devcomponents.com Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:13:05 CDT 20 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=10 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=10 Adding any .NET control to DotNetBar is very easy with the help of ControlContainerItem object. Please note that this process is completely automatic using DotNetBar Windows Forms designer and ... Denis Basaric Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:06:36 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=60 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=60 Following code can be used in Form Load event to save default layout to a string:private void SaveDefaultLayout() { ArrayList customBars = new ArrayList(); foreach (Bar bar in dotNetBa ... Denis Basaric Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:52:51 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=61 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=61 You can create menus in either design-time using the DotNetBar Windows Forms designer or in run-time by writting the the code to do so. You can always create the menu in design-time and explore ... Denis Basaric Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:52:12 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=62 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=62 You can create toolbars in either design-time using the DotNetBar Windows Forms designer or in run-time by writting the code. You can always create the toolbar in design-time and explore the Ini ... Denis Basaric Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:53:24 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=63 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=63 Please create first top-level items either menu or toolbar see appropriate how to samples. Note that you can always perform this in design-time using DotNetBar Windows Forms designer by simply ... Denis Basaric Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:54:37 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=64 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=64 Creating the context menus consists of adding the ContextMenuBar control to the form and using the designer action items or right-click context menu commands to add items to it. The top level bu ... Denis Basaric Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:55:09 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=65 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=65 Creating and manipulating dockable windows using DotNetBar is very easy and does not require writing any code. Follow these steps to create dockable windows: Add DotNetBarManager to the the form ... Denis Basaric Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:55:38 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=95 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=95 Applies to DotNetBar for Windows Forms 7.2 .NET Framework 2.0+ or later.DotNetBar by default uses Graphics DrawString (GDI+) method for text rendering. .NET Framework 2.0 introduces the TextRender ... Denis Basaric Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:22:50 CST http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=99 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=99 To select all week days when week number in MonthCalendarAdv is clicked handle ItemClick event and use following code: private void monthCalendarAdv1_ItemClick(object sender, EventArgs e) { ... Denis Basaric Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:58:48 CST http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=102 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=102 Code below shows an example of how to scroll current SideBarPanel using MouseWheel:private void frm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { sideBar1.MouseMove += new MouseEventHandl ... Denis Basaric Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:05:40 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=104 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=104 Colors customization for all controls in DotNetBar is done through Office2007ColorTable. Following code shows how to customize border color for input controls:C#: private void CustomizeColors ... Denis Basaric Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:01:18 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=106 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=106 1. Adding CrumbBar control to a form Double-click CrumbBar control in Visual Studio.NET toolbox to add it to the form 2. Opening des ... Denis Basaric Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:45:34 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=115 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=115 If you want to right-align the text in AdvTree cell control you need to create new style and assign it to all cells that you want to have text right-aligned.Note that using styles you can change m ... Denis Basaric Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:33:24 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=117 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=117 By default TabControl and its panels use the colors that are pre-determined by the style that is set using TabControl.Style property.To customize TabControlPanel colors which hosts the controls yo ... Denis Basaric Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:02:33 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=121 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=121 DotNetBar 8.2 includes new component StyleManager to provide you with single place to manage styles and color tinting for all controls that have style set to style manager controlled.To use StyleM ... Denis Basaric Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:09:38 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=124 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=124 Expand Border property by clicking + next to it. Change BorderColor property.From code simply use following: listViewEx1.Border.BorderColor = Color.Green Denis Basaric Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:53:04 CST http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=125 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=125 ButtonX and ButtonItem controls support custom shapes out of box. To create custom shape you need to create Class which inherits from ShapeDescriptor and provide implementation. Here is sample cod ... Denis Basaric Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:52:57 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=126 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=126 Here is code that shows how to enumerate all items in CrumbBar control and find one by name. You can modify it to search by any other criteria.VB:This is code that is part of the setup and used to ... Denis Basaric Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:14:06 CDT http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=122 http://www.devcomponents.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=122 DevComponents Windows Forms Schedule Quick Start Guide Windows Forms Schedule control provides Outlook style scheduling functionality for your Windows Forms applications. The Schedule c ... Brian Tallman Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:48:45 CDT