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XtraGauges Suite by DevExpress (Developer Express)

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Add gauges and digital dashboards to your Windows Forms applications. XtraGauges Suite ships with over 150 built-in presets and is extremely easy to use; all you need to do is drop a control onto a form. You won't have to manually create elements, customize their appearance, size or layout. Simply choose the template you like best, bind your control to data and you are ready to go. With XtraGauges Suite You can place multiple gauges into one container and enable automatic arrangement. The container will determine the best possible gauge layout for its current size and proportions. If you resize your form, gauges are proportionally resized and their layout is updated so that they use form space most efficiently. XtraGauges Suite ships with comprehensive documentation together with demo applications so you can hit the ground running and deliver stunning gauges with your next WinForms application.

XtraGauges Suite – Circular/Linear Gauges

The XtraGauges Suite Control provides built-in presets for the following circular gauge types: Full, Three Quarters, Half, Quarter and Wide. Every Windows Forms gauge type listed above ships with multiple themes.

Gauge Scales - Depending on the preset you've selected, a gauge initially contains one or two scales. If you need more scales or if you are designing a Gauge from scratch, you can manually add a scale via the gauge's smart tag. Once scales have been created, you can click them to access their settings via the Properties window. This allows you to customize the following settings:

Upper and lower scale limits

Current value (can be bound to a data field)

Major tick mark visibility, appearance, frequency and label text format

Minor tick mark visibility, appearance and frequency

Scale dimensions and position

Additional Elements - The following elements are available for current value indicators.

Needles

Markers

Range bars (require an anchor value to be specified so that one end points to this value, while the other end points to the bound scale's current value).

You can further enhance your gauge by adding the following elements:

Freely-arranged text labels

Spindle caps

Embedded state indicator gauges

Needless to say, you can change location, orientation and appearance settings for all elements listed above.

XtraGauges Suite - Digital Gauges

The Gauge Control provides four types of digital gauges: seven-segment, fourteen-segment, 5x8 matrix and 8x14 matrix. All digital gauge types ship with multiple themes.

DevExpress Digital Gauge controls provides the following digital gauge settings:

The number of characters to be displayed

Character spacing

Customizable appearance for enabled and disabled segments

Data field used to supply display text (in data-bound mode)

State Indicator Gauges - These gauges can be used as:

Process state indicators (e.g. traffic lights gauge).

Value level indicators (e.g. smiley gauge).

Clipart, allowing you to enhance your application usability by incorporating explanatory images (e.g. state flags or currency symbol gauges).

The main benefit of using State Indicator Gauges is that the DevExpress Gauge controls use vector graphics so that images will preserve their quality regardless of their current size which in turn saves you the trouble of adjusting images to the required control size or vice versa - adjusting controls so that they fit images. Once you start using DevExpress Gauges, you will never again worry about resizing issues when using resizable containers - state indicators are automatically resized with their parent control.

What's new in XtraGauges Suite v2011 vol 1?

Style Chooser Dialog - With this release, DevExpress have added a Style Chooser dialog for the WinForms Gauge Controls. This new dialog allows you to quickly change the current gauge style (its shape, theme, or both).

Style Manager Dialog - The Style Manager dialog is designed to control all gauge styles within a gauge container and to define associated layout settings.

Look and Feel Support - DevExpress WinForms Gauge Controls now support the WinForms look-and-feel system - Gauge background and border colors are automatically altered to match the characteristics of the appropriate skin. You can also control whether a Gauge control maintains its own look-and-feel or uses application-wide skin settings.

Custom Draw for Gauge Elements - In this release, DevExpress have added a new event that allows you to manually draw gauge elements and thus fully redefine appearance.

Layout Enhancements - You now have a greater control over the layout of gauge elements in AutoLayout mode. You can specify padding and indent values when a gauge container automatically aligns individual gauge elements.

What's new in XtraGauges Suite v2010 vol 2?

WinForms Project Wizard for C# - With this release, DevExpress have introduced a new Wizard to help you get started building C# based applications when using DevExpress WinForms controls.

What's new in XtraGauges Suite v2010 vol 1?

Full Support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework Client Profile

Add gauges and digital dashboards to your Windows Forms applications.

Pricing: XtraGauges Suite Subscription Renewal for one year (for Subscriptions soon to expire or just expired), XtraGauges Suite Subscription Renewal for one year (for Subscriptions soon to expire or just expired) - with Full C# Source Code

Evals & Downloads: Read the Developer Express License Agreement - Requires Acrobat Reader, Read the XtraGauges Suite help file, Download the DXperience v2011 vol 2 (V11.2.8) evaluation on to your computer - Expires After 30 Days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WinForms

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic 2010, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ 2010, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2010, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, .NET Framework 4.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0

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