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ListBoxAdv control included with DotNetBar for WinForms is an replacement for the system ListBox and CheckedListBox controls. When you add ListBoxAdv control to your form you have 3 easy ways to add content to it. You can use ListBoxAdv Tasks menu to add ListBoxItem objects to it as shown in image below: Adding items like […]

DotNetBar for Windows Forms 11.8 and later includes new style Office 2014 Mobile as seen in Office applications on iPad. Note that this is an Metro style so please read the Getting Started with the Metro style article as well. Following screen-shots shows the sample application we will create in this tutorial which showcases this […]

Use following code to enumerate all appointments between two dates in Schedule control (applies to WinForms, WPF and Silverlight): C#: DateTime start = new DateTime(2014, 05, 07); DateTime end = start.AddDays(10); DateTime d = start; while (d <= end) { DevComponents.Schedule.Model.Day day = calendarView1.CalendarModel.GetDay(d); foreach (Appointment item in day.Appointments) { Console.WriteLine("Appointment: {0}-{1} {2}", item.StartTime, item.EndTime, […]

DateTimeInput control displays popup calendar which allows date selection and which also contains Clear and Today buttons at the bottom which clear entered date and select today’s date. If you wish to attach event handlers to either of these buttons (Clear button is named “sysClearSelectionButton” and Today button is named “sysTodayButton“) use following code from […]

Sometimes its needed to make DotNetBar for Winforms floating dock windows translucent, i.e. change their opacity so they are see-through. That is easily done by handling DotNetBarManager.BarUndock event and appropriate code as follows: C#: private void dotNetBarManager1_BarUndock(object sender, EventArgs e) { Bar bar = (Bar)sender; if (bar.LayoutType == eLayoutType.DockContainer) { Form form = bar.FindForm(); if […]

To customize the KeyboardControl keys layout you have to define your own layout which is fairly easy and done using code. Below is the method which creates default keyboard. Use it and modify it to suit your need and then assign result of it to keyboardControl.Keyboard property. C# public static Keyboard CreateDefaultKeyboard() { Keyboard keyboard […]

LayoutControl included with DotNetBar for WinForms helps you create resolution and DPI independent user interface data entry forms. Its built-in layout logic will re-flow its content to fit available bounds and size constraints. LayoutControl allows for fixed and relative sizing of controls added to it and you can create both flow and table like layouts […]

Range Slider control included with DotNetBar for WinForms provides you with ability to input numerical range selection in your application. With its default settings control looks like this: RangeSlider supports the vertical orientation by setting property SliderOrientation=Vertical: The possible selection range is set through Minimum and Maximum properties. Selected range is returned by Value property […]

DotNetBar AdvTree WinForms control includes full support for data-binding through advTree.DataSource property which accepts many data objects and automatically creates columns based on advTree.DisplayMembers property setting which accepts comma separated list of field names to display. When you set DisplayMembers property the control automatically generates the column and sets default size for them. If you […]

RadialMenu control is a popup menu control included with DotNetBar for WinForms. RadialMenu control is used to minimize movement between the action which opens the menu and menu command selection. RadialMenu control is not only very useful for touch based screens but its benefits are the same when mouse only is used. RadialMenu control provides […]