DevComponents Knowledge Base

DotNetBar for Windows Forms includes set of Metro controls to help you develop great looking Metro look and feel user interface for your apps. Usually Metro applications will use at least: 1. MetroAppForm – which is chrome-less Metro style form: 2. MetroShell – which provides basic window chrome, backstage and top-level application tabs: 3. MetroStatusBar [...]

DotNetBar for Windows Forms Advanced PropertyGrid control provides complete support for ICustomTypeDescriptor interface that you can use to provide completely virtual properties that are shown and edited in property grid. This involves implementing ICustomTypeDescriptor interface on your object and the at least providing list of custom properties returned from GetProperties(Attribute[] attributes) method that you implement [...]

If you need to show custom tooltip for Appointments in WinForms (Windows Forms) CalendarView control you can do so by handling CalendarView.MouseEnter event to show tooltip and CalendarView.MouseLeave to hide tooltip. Following code illustrates how to show custom Balloon style tooltip: C#: private Balloon _AppointmentBalloon = null;   private void SetupAppointmentBalloon() { _AppointmentBalloon = new [...]

paddingTable of Contents Overview Frame Scales TickMarks Labels GaugePins Sections Ranges Pointers GaugeItems Templatized ToolTips Control Events Programmatic Use Collection Referencing Support Functions Overview (Note: Many of the options and abilities of the GaugeControl, as presented in this document, are demonstrated in the GaugeControl Sample Application included in the DotNetBar Samples folder. Please refer to [...]

Table of Contents Architecture Overview Component Overview SuperGridControl GridContainer GridPanel GridRow GridColumn GridCell Cell Editors and Renderers Creating Your Own Cell Editor / Renderer   Architecture Overview (Note: Many of the options and abilities of the SuperGrid, as presented in this document, are demonstrated in the SuperGrid Demo Application included in the DotNetBar Samples folder. [...]

Micro-Chart control included with DotNetBar for Windows Forms is designed as a super fast chart control that can be included in menus, toolbars and Ribbon controls. They are used to provide fast, context based and data rich information in small amount of space and are not designed to replace standard charts. Chart types included are: [...]

Creating Super Tooltips using code only is simple. Use following code: C#: // SuperTooltipInfo type describes Super-Tooltip SuperTooltipInfo superTooltip = new SuperTooltipInfo(); superTooltip.HeaderText = "Header text"; superTooltip.BodyText = "Body text with <strong>text-markup</strong> support. Header and footer support text-markup too."; superTooltip.FooterText = "My footer text";   // Assign tooltip to a control or DotNetBar component superTooltip1.SetSuperTooltip(textBoxX1, [...]

TreeGX control has built-in drag & drop support so you can re-order nodes without writing any code. However, this drag & drop support expects that DevComponents.Tree.Node type is part of drag data. If you are accepting drag & drop from external applications, for example File Explorer, you cannot control whether drag data contains DevComponents.Tree.Node type. [...]

ComboTree control is a control that combines the selection control with drop-down tree control. It is similar to ComboBox control but it does not have editing capabilities but it does have multiple column binding and auto grouping functionality built-in. Here is how ComboTree control looks like: Clicking the drop-down button will show the tree control: [...]

VB: Dim dict = New Dictionary(Of String, String)() For n As Integer = 0 To 10 dict.Add("Key " + n.ToString(), "Value " + n.ToString()) Next   ComboBoxItem1.ComboBoxEx.DataSource = New BindingSource(dict, Nothing) ComboBoxItem1.ComboBoxEx.DisplayMember = "Value" ComboBoxItem1.ComboBoxEx.ValueMember = "Key" C#: Dictionary<string, string> dict = new Dictionary<string, string>(); for (int n = 0; n <= 10; n++) { [...]