DevComponents Knowledge Base

The option groups are used for creating the mutually exclusive group of items for selection. It is very similar functionality to the Option Buttons on Windows Forms. The group is defined as a set of items with the same parent that have OptionGroup property set to the same string value. The option group functionality will […]

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 StyleManager as central place for style changes you must set Style=StyleManagerControlled property on all your controls. StyleManager can be added to your main form […]

Ribbon Control Quick Access Toolbar Customization Our Ribbon control out of box includes a complete Quick Access Toolbar (referred to further as QAT) customization with built-in extensibility so customization dialogs can be used and existing customization panels reused in the dialogs. QAT Customization Key Properties RibbonControl.CanCustomize – Set by default to true indicates whether QAT […]

When creating new RibbonBar controls and adding them to the Ribbon panels use following tips: When RibbonBar controls are created and added to the RibbonPanel from code, the layout order of controls is determined by the actual layout position of the RibbonBar control, that is to say RibbonBar.Left property. To ensure proper order for your […]

Ribbon control exposes the QatCustomizePanel control that you can use on your custom options dialogs to enable Quick Access Toolbar customization. QatCustomizePanel provides all functionality that is needed for customization and it is the same as the one you see when you invoke QAT Customize Dialog provided by Ribbon control. To use QatCustomizePanel you follow […]

When using RibbonBarMergeContainer to perform MDI Child Ribbon merging the visual position (X position) of the RibbonBar control inside of the RibbonBarMergeContainer will control the actual merge order of the controls when they are added to the MDI Ribbon panel. For easier management of the RibbonBar controls inside of the RibbonBarMergeContainer we recommend using following […]

If you have created SuperTooltip and assigned it to the control at design-time you can change its properties using code below: SuperTooltipInfo info = superTooltip1.GetSuperTooltip(button1); info.BodyText = "Changed body text…"; info.HeaderText = "New Header Text"; Explore SuperTooltipInfo object for all properties that are available.

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 StyleManager as central place for style changes you must set Style=StyleManagerControlled property on all your controls. StyleManager can be added to your main form […]

If you are using DotNetBar 8.2 and later use StyleManager component instead. Read more about StyleManager. To change the Office 2007 renderer color table and apply it to all DotNetBar controls on the form use following call: RibbonPredefinedColorSchemes.ChangeOffice2007ColorTable(myForm, DevComponents.DotNetBar.Rendering.eOffice2007ColorScheme.Blue) myForm – Reference to the form which contains all DotNetBar controls you want to apply color […]

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 is how default gallery looks like when used on the RibbonBar: Below is the Gallery with the same content but displayed on the popup. […]