How to create menu side-bar
Assigning the menu side-bar is done through the code by setting the PopUpSideBar property of your item to desired side-bar structure. Follow these steps to create image side-bar for an popup menu...
Key Wpf-Ribbon RibbonBar Control Properties
RibbonBar control is used to visually present group of related commands. It has two major states: Normal where all visible commands are displayed, and Collapsed where button is displayed which when cl...
How to enable drag & drop on ItemPanel control
ItemPanel control supports automatic drag & drop operations with no code required on your part when EnableDragDrop property is set to true. When
you want to customize drag & drop behavior to say...
How to inherit from Office 2007 Forms
Here are the steps to follow to inherit from Office 2007 forms included with DotNetBar. This applies to Visual Basic. 1.
Make sure that you have reference to DevComponents.DotNetBar2.dll in
your pro...
Document Docking
In Docking Concepts
docking on all 4 sides of the form were covered. This topic covers Fill
docking or Document Docking capabilities of DotNetBar Suite. To quickly
get started with Document Dockin...
Highlighter component in DotNetBar for WinForms, All you need to know
Highlighter component allows you to visually highlight any
control on the form using distinctive border style. You can use it with our
SuperValidator component to highlight validation e...
How To Add GalleryGroup to GalleryContainer
DotNetBar Galleries include automatic support for the Gallery Groups that are used to group the items contained inside of gallery together under group label when gallery is displayed on popup. Here i...
How to right-align controls added to the Ribbon Tab area
By default the controls added to the Ribbon are left aligned in ribbon tab area. If you want to add controls that are right aligned set following attached property:
dc:RibbonTabPanel.PanelAlignm...
How to change ListViewEx border color
Expand Border property by clicking + next to it.
Change BorderColor property. From code simply use following:
listViewEx1.Border.BorderColor = Color.Green
How to build Office 2010 style Backstage application menu with DotNetBar for Windows Forms
DotNetBar for Windows Forms 8.8 and later includes support for creating Office 2010 style Backstage application menu. Following image shows what Backstage application menu looks like: Add RibbonCon...
How To Start Using Wpf-Ribbon Control
To start using Wpf-Ribbon in your project follow these steps:
1. Using RibbonWindow
Add Reference to Wpf-Ribbon assembly to your project
In C# right-click References node in Solution Explore...
How to create Excel like popup border toolbar
Sample below shows how to create the popup toolbar that looks like the Excel
popup toolbar that allows you to pick border type. The toolbar is
created completely in design-time with following key se...
SuperValidator for Windows Forms, All you need to know
DotNetBar SuperValidator is the component set that helps you
implement validation of user input in your WinForms applications without
writing any code for most common validation scenarios. ...
How to build Office 2010 style Backstage application menu with DotNetBar for WPF
DotNetBar for WPF 5.9 and later includes support for creating
Office 2010 style Backstage application menu. Following image shows what
Backstage application menu looks like: Start by adding Ribb...
How to customize WPF Office 2007 Color Schemes
You can customize every single color/brush used by DotNetBar for WPF controls like Ribbon, Docking and NavigationPane. You do so by defining your own resource dictionary with replacement entries for ...
How to customize Ribbon Application Button
Default appearance of Ribbon Application Button is a round glossy button as shown in the image below: To customize its appearance or to completely remove the background round part of the button, mo...
Code generation for property failed
Symptoms: VS.NET is reporting message: Code generation for
property XXX failed. Error was: XXX is unable to convert XXX to
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.InstanceDescriptor This message ...
How to use SideBar control
Side-bar control included with DotNetBar uses the same programming
interface as other DotNetBar objects. To get started using the Side-bar
control from design-time: To add SideBar Control to Visua...
Anatomy of BubbleBar control
Picture below shows the major parts of the BubbleBar control and related properties. Buttons and tabs Buttons
on control are always contained on Tabs. BubbleBar.Tabs property
returns the reference...
Using Wpf-Ribbon Galleries
Wpf-Ribbon™ includes complete Office 2007 User Interface Guidelines compatible Galleries feature implementation including optional features. This topic gives you an overview of the functionality...