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Designbox for Visual Studio patched

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:19:00 GMT

Viewing a Designbox sales app sample in Visual Studio.

Designbox for Visual Studio Designbox is a new kind of Visual Studio Toolbox that lets you develop and reuse sets of properties and values called Designs. These control designs can be dragged and dropped directly into your WinForms applications to develop applications more quickly than ever. Designbox also contains a Design Gallery which lets you browse through and apply dozens of pre-defined designs to your WinForms controls with just a single click.

Updates in V2.24

Fixed a bug where Infragistics UltraTilePanel Designs were not being applied correctly.
Fixed a bug where Infragistics UltraGauge Designs were triggering the Gauge Wizard when dropped onto a Form.
Fixed a bug where DevExpress NavBarGroup Designs were causing a rendering error while being applied.
Added a feature where Infragistics UltraToolbarsManager Designs now display the Toolbars in the Design Editor.
Added support for DevExpress XtraEditors.
Added a feature for saving your customization settings for the Designbox and Design Gallery themes.
Fixed a bug where some Design Palettes were not being automatically loaded properly. An error was reporting that the Design Palette file could not be found.
Fixed a bug where dragging and dropping a control to the last Design Palette in the Designbox Control was not causing a new Design to be created.
Fixed a bug where renaming a Design was not being committed when you hit the enter key or clicked out of the window.
Fixed a bug where deleting a Design Palette would cause Visual Studio to crash under certain circumstances.
Fixed a bug where changing the name of a Design Palette to a name of an already existing palette would cause an error.
Fixed a bug where Infragistics UltraGrid controls were not being designed properly.
Fixed a bug where Infragistics UltraNavBar controls were not being designed properly.
Fixed a bug where DevExpress NavBarControl controls were not being designed properly.
Fixed a bug where DevExpress BarManager controls were not being designed properly.

About StudioWorks Software

StudioWorks Software is a customer driven software company that specializes in delivering high-value developer tools and components to the Visual Studio marketplace. StudioWorks Software's Designbox for Visual Studio enables you to create .NET WinForms UIs in a fraction of the time that it would otherwise take by delivering a revolutionary new way to create and share controls within Visual Studio. StudioWorks Software is committed to partnering with Control Vendors to create custom Design Galleries for their control offerings and has been a Microsoft VSIP member since 2006. StudioWorks Software is a privately held company headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Designbox supports Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:17:00 GMT

Viewing a Designbox sales app sample in Visual Studio.

StudioWorks Software's Designbox for Visual Studio adds support for the latest release of Microsoft Visual Studio.

Designbox for Visual Studio is a new kind of Visual Studio Toolbox that lets you develop and reuse sets of properties and values called Designs. These control designs can be dragged and dropped directly into your WinForms applications to develop applications more quickly than ever. Designbox also contains a Design Gallery which lets you browse through and apply dozens of pre-defined designs to your WinForms controls with a single click.

Updates

Now includes Visual Studio 2010 support

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Designbox adds NetAdvantage support

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:12:00 GMT

Viewing a Designbox sales app sample in Visual Studio.

Designbox for Visual Studio supports Infragistics NetAdvantage for WinForms and includes new customization features.

Updates in V2.2.1

Added a feature for customizing the look of your Designbox window
Added a feature for selecting and setting an image for design palettes
Added a feature for customizing the look of your Design Gallery window
Added a feature that allows you to see a full size preview of Designs from the Design Gallery window
Added support for Infragistics NetAdvantage for WinForms

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Designbox for Visual Studio updated

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:41:00 GMT

A sample login form from the Design Gallery.

Latest release adds support for Telerik RadControls for WinForms.

Updates in V2.1.2

Added support for Telerik RadControls for WinForms.
Fixed a bug where designs for System.Windows.Forms.TreeView controls were not properly capturing the Nodes property collection.
Fixed a bug where DevExpress.XtraNavBar.NavBarItem components were not included in designs for DevExpress.XtraNavBar.NavBarControl controls.
Fixed a bug where use of some DevExpress 9.3.2 controls results in an "Unsupported control" message.

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ComponentSource announces StudioWorks

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Designing a custom login screen using the Design Gallery.

Designbox for Visual Studio provides a new way to design and share Windows Forms controls.

Features

The Designbox Tool Window
Your Designbox is a toolbox window that not only stores controls, but also stores sets of property values (called "Designs") that can be automatically applied when you drag-and-drop controls on your Form Designer. This means that you can add finished, rich content controls directly to your Forms more quickly than before.
The Design Gallery
The Design Gallery tracks your selected control on your design surface and shows you previews of designs that can be applied to that class of control. A single click then applies that design to the control. So not only can you create new controls that automatically have preset property values, but you can also apply pre-defined property values with content and style settings to existing controls.
Design = Content + Style
Designs can include values for any control property for any WinForms controls. Which means that you can capture and reuse template-like content Designs that contain structures like images, child controls, and tree nodes. Or you can create style Designs that capture a controls' color, font, and appearance properties, enabling you to add application styling and theming to any WinForms application
Shareable Design Palettes
Designbox organizes your Designs into shareable Xml based Design Palettes that you author and maintain. This approach allows you to capture, document, and reuse consistent Design Standards and best-practices personally, or throughout your enterprise. And since Designbox has the ability to serialize any WinForms control to Xml, it opens the door to converting your WinForms applications to WPF and Xaml
An Improved Design Experience
You probably still design most of your controls one property at a time. And you do this over and over again. Designbox delivers a new technology that can eliminate this cycle. Thereby making you and your organization more productive while, at the same time, reducing errors.

About StudioWorks Software

StudioWorks Software is a customer driven software company that specializes in delivering high-value developer tools and components to the Visual Studio marketplace. The company is committed to partnering with Control Vendors to create custom Design Galleries for their control offerings, and has been a Microsoft VSIP member since 2006. StudioWorks Software is a privately held company headquartered in Cleveland, OH.