DevComponents Knowledge Base

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 InitializeComponent method that is automatically created on the form and which will have all the code that is needed to create the toolbar that […]

See following code for sample implementation. Also review the BarFromCode sample shipped with DotNetBar for working sample and full source code. VB: Imports DevComponents.DotNetBar . . . ‘ Create a new Bar Dim bar As Bar = New Bar("Standard") bar.GrabHandleStyle = eGrabHandleStyle.StripeFlat m_DotNetBar.Bars.Add(bar) bar.DockSide = eDockSide.Top   ‘ Add Items to it Dim item, subItem […]

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 the InitializeComponent method that is automatically created on the form and which will have all the code that is needed to […]

Assigning the menu side-bar is done through the code by setting the PopUpSideBar property of your item to desired side-bar structure. Following image shows popup menu with side-bar image set: Follow these steps to create image side-bar for an popup menu: 1. Create your menu as usual using DotNetBar designer or code 2. In the […]

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 button that is added to the ContextMenuBar acts as the context menu parent that is assigned to the controls through the designer. Once […]

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 you do not have to write any code if you do not have special requirements. To add the any control at design-time to toolbar, ribbonbar or […]

When using any control with data-binding or either standard ComboBox control or ComboBoxItem control on popup menu, toolbar or any popup in conjunction with setting the DataSource property you will need to set the BindingContext property manually as well. Internally Windows Forms ComboBox takes the BindingContext from the parent control to perform DataSource binding. Since […]