Designbox for Visual Studio

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Designbox v2.2.4 for Visual Studio 2010  

Designbox v2.2.4 for Visual Studio 2008  

Designbox v2.2.4 for Visual Studio 2005  

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What's new in Designbox for Visual Studio V2.2.4?

• 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 droppped 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.

What's new in Designbox for Visual Studio V2.2.1?

• Now includes Visual Studio 2010 support!
• 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 fullsize preview of Designs from the Design Gallery window
• Added support for Infragistics NetAdvantage for WinForms

What's new in Designbox for Visual Studio V2.1.2?

• 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.
• Added support for Telerik RadControls for WinForms.

Designbox for Visual Studio 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.