Nevron User Interface Suite for .NET - Enterprise - Q2 2008 - Sommario

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Nevron User Interface Suite for .NET - Enterprise by Nevron

Create distinguished, stylish and modern end-user interfaces. Nevron User Interface Suite for .NET fully supports Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. It includes a rich and powerful docking library (Enterprise Edition only), professional and extensible command bars and a set of extended Windows Forms controls designed to bring the latest GUI standards and technologies to your Windows Forms applications. The suite introduces lots of new custom controls which make it easy to create a modern end-user presentation layer. The Enterprise Edition includes: docking panels, command bars, buttons, color tools, comboboxes, listboxes and more. Includes both Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 compatible components.

Main features

Docking Panels

Command Bars

Entirely Custom Set of Windows Forms Controls

Unique rendering system

Consistency

Border Appearance

Full control over each aspect of visual representation

Rich design-time support

Unified overall appearance that lies on palettes and color tables

Support for overall 3D-style - Flat or Light3D

WindowsXP Theme support - skin your application by just specifying WindowsDefault color scheme

Docking Panels

Nevron User Interface introduces a powerful docking library which provides your applications with the latest WYSIWYG docking standards and technologies. These are interface structured hierarchies of predefined controls that can be docked, floated or redocked using visual feedback at run-time. The unique tree-based layout system allows for practically any complex structure to be achieved in a few lines of code. The dock manager uses advanced logic for getting a valid dock area and overcomes limitations of the standard docking behavior experienced in other products. Nevron Docking Panels are extremely flexible and feature-rich. The framework support nested containers as well as multiple dock managers per form. By default all UI elements are rendered by a common renderer, all layout operations are performed by a common layout engine, drag events are handled by a common drag handler, etc. All of these objects can be replaced with your own custom ones either at the manager's level or per docking panel instance.

Key Features:

Document View

Mdi Menu Merge

Border Support

Layout Persistency

Design-time Support

Command Model

Unified overall appearance integrated with the core Nevron UI Rendering System

Control over tabs style, tab align, caption height, buttons and font, splitter size, etc.

Pluggable renderers; by default all the panels use the one exposed by the Dock Manager

Pluggable drag handlers; by default all the panels use the one exposed by the Dock Manager

Pluggable layout engines at any level of the tree

Allowed DockStyle; fill for panel containers

Layout logic - absolute, relative and auto size

Panel permissions; each panel has permissions specifying what functionality it exposes

Dock area masks - specify the allowed areas for docking per INDockAreaProvider

Event bubbling - each panel fires an event and delegates it to the manager (if not marked as "Handled"); this allows for flexible event handling

Great number of events, most of them cancelable

Docking Panels - Document View

Nevron Docking Panels now provide a complete document support including 3 different types of document view style, document layout persistency, standard mdi menu merge and much more. Nevron Docking Panels is the only library on the market which provide you with the complete set of document views: TabbedMdi - bring to you applications the latest Visual Studio tabbed mdi interfaces. Unlimited nesting of tabbed groups. Complete control over the document tabstrips via the DocumentStyle, exposed by the DockManager. StandardMdi - Although well designed and much professional looking sometimes the tabbed documents are not the solution you will need. Nevron Docking Panels provides you with multiple document interfaces style found in the standard Windows Form control. Using a well designed object model a document might be easily hosted on either a tabbed mdi view or on a standard one. SingleDocument - sometimes an application may need only one document to be opened at a time. In this case you should use the SingleDocument view style. The document model comes with a built-in manager, member of the dock manager, which controls all the document registered with the framework. The DocumentManager exposes lots of events, some of them cancelable which allows you to provide custom application-oriented logic. The example adds three documents to the view and hosts a property grid in a dockable panel. Play with the properties of the DocumentStyle, selected in the property grid.

Docking Panels - Mdi Menu Merge

Nevron Docking Panels now provide a complete document support. For the StandardMdi view when a document is maximized there should be commands (hosted on a menu bar) which allow for restoring of the window. This feature is implemented via an interface - INMdiMenuTarget which allows you to provide your own custom mdi menu merge implementation.

Docking Panels - Border Support

Nevron Docking Panels provide generic border support. Based on the core INControlBorderProvider interface you may completely customize the border of a panel using either the visual editor or programmatically.

Docking Panels - Layout Persistency

Nevron Docking Panels now provide complete layout persistency including panels, documents and styles. You may choose among 5 different persistency formats - Binary, XML, SOAP, CustomBinary and CustomXML. The last two formats are entirely custom and allow for painless migration from one version to another. The persistency features are exposed by a NDockingFrameworkState object which when attached to a valid NDockManager instance may completely serialize/deserialize its state.

Docking Panels - Design-time Support

Complete design-time support is a main beneficial feature of any component developed under .NET platform. Nevron docking panels now provide rich and intuitive design-time support with the same behavior experienced as if the form is running at run time. Just drop a NDockManager component on a form and using its verbs add panels on the sides of the form. Nevron NDockManager takes full advantage of the System.CodeDom namespace and provide completely custom code generation of zones and panels. The example is created by the Windows Forms Designer and demonstrates the Code Dom serialization provided by the dock manager.

Docking Panels - Command Model

Nevron Docking Panels now provide an extensible command model which seamlessly integrate with the framework and allows you to define global tasks and methods and specify keyboard shortcuts form them. The NDockManager exposes a new NDockingFrameworkCommander object which serves as a command manager. It has some predefined commands like NextDocument, NextPanel, CloseDocument, etc. and allows you to register your own custom commands. Each command might be assigned multiple shortcut combinations (like the NextDocument command which is assigned both Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+F6 shortcuts). You may either inherit from the NDockingFrameworkCommand class and override the ExecuteCore method or create a default command and hook to its Executed event.

Docking Panels - Auto Hide Support

Nevron Docking Panels now provide the so called "Auto Hide" feature - a panel may be pinned to any of the root container's edges. When a panel is autohiding it will be associated with a tab in a tabstrip and will only be displayed when the user hovers or selects that tab.

Docking Panels - True WYSIWYG Docking Hints

Our docking framework now provides a unique feature - when generating hints the exact bounds that the panel will occupy after drop are calculated. In this way the user will have a complete idea what he is about to do.

Docking Panels - Translucent Fill Hints

Now you may specify your favourite hint to be displayed while you are dragging a panel - reversible frame or translucent fill. Select a favourite fill color and alpha value to be used when generating a translucent fill.

Docking Panels - Docking Stickers, Stickers Templates

Introduced for the firts time in Visual Studio 2005, the so called docking stickers are very intuitive and enable the user to visually select the area where a panel should be docked. Nevron Docking Panels extend this feature greately and not only provide you with it but give you complete control over stickers' appearance via the DockingStickerTemplate object. The framework ships with a total of 16 predefined templates including the famous "Squares" and "Diamonds" as well lots of fresh new designs which will give you a distinguished and professional looking docking panels.

Services

The most important features of our docking framework are controlled by separate objects (services). These are the NDockingHintService and NHitTestService. These objects might be replaced with your own custom ones via the manager's RegisterService method.

Appearance Styles

All aspects of visual representation are grouped in objects (styles) which allow for easier customization. All the styles are stored in a INStyleComposite instance, member of the NDockManager. You may even replace the default styles with your own custom ones.

Following are the styles provided by the NDockManager:

CaptionStyle - controls the appearance of panels' captions

DockingHintStyle - controls the appearance and logic performed when displaying docking hints

SplitterStyle - controls the appearance of dock zones' splitters

TabStyle - controls the appearance of the tab trips used to display multiple panels per zone

Lock/Unlock of the panels

The NDockManager now may lock all the visual functionality of the panels (dragging, caption buttons) - simply call its LockPanels method.

Command Bars

Nevron Command Bars provides you with distinguished menus and toolbars created entirely from scratch. The framework shares a consistent, feature-rich yet easy to use API across all command bars which allows for any complex logic to be easily implemented. Based on the core Nevron UI render logic all command bars are professional looking and fully customizable in each aspect of visual representation. The rich design-time support enables you to easily create modern MS Office 2003-like menus and toolbars with dock/undock/redock capabilities.

Key Features:

Professional and consistent appearance based on pluggable renderers and palettes

Common, sharable object model allowing for complete reusability and extensibility

Entirely custom menus allowing for full customization regarding both appearance and shadows

Dock/Undock/Redock capabilities of toolbars

Permissions - specify what functionality each toolbar exposes

Event bubbling

Native support for embedded controls, even on menus

Advanced visual editor available at both design and run time

Drag-and-drop support while in "Customize" mode

Command overflow support

Complete keyboard support including custom shortcuts allowing for any keys combination

Rich and intuitive design-time support

A total of 27 predefined color schemes

Windows XP theme support

What’s new Nevron User Interface for .NET Q2 2008? - Following is a list of bug fixes introduced in this release:

Saves / Loads correctly the state of the Toolbars.

Saves / Loads correctly the order of AutoHide panels.

Setups the width of NVScrollBar nad NHScrollBar less than the system default.

When selecting an item in a combo box with two or more items with equal text the SelectedIndex property can now correctly distinguish between such items.

What's New Q4 2007:

Nevron User Interface Q4 2007 - Explore rich, powerful, extremely flexible and fast docking library, professional and extensible command bars and unique features like skinning support, rich-text labels, superior performance plus much more. The suite contains lots of modern complex controls such as MS Outlook Navigation Pane, Windows XP ExplorerBar as well as complete set of extended Windows Forms controls designed to bring to your .NET applications the latest GUI standards and technologies. Version Q4 2007 includes both VB.NET and C# examples. Following is a list of the new features introduced in this release:

In this release Nevron User Interface for .NET includes a powerful new control named NTreeList. The control is based on the NTreeViewEx and extends it by adding list-view functionality. This combination allows for complex data-related tasks like grouping, sorting, binding, etc. The control appearance and functionality is highly customizable. Following are the some of the major features of the control:

Freezable list view columns You can choose some columns to be displayed regardless how the user scrolls horizontally. This is feature is very useful when you need to make sure that important data is always displayed.

Binding to a Data Table This feature allows you to import the NTreeListData from a DataTable object, as well as to implement custom data import.

Extensible row filtering You can combine several types of predefined filters to selectively display rows in the list

SortingThe controls allows you to sort by rows with the same tree depth as well as to sort recursively (that is sort the children of these nodes as well)

Nevron User Interface for .NET - New Features in Q3 2007

DataGridView (VS 2005 only)

The NDataGridView is an extended System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView control which modifies the appearance to match the Nevron one, adds custom scrollbars, column and row headers and features like additional predefined column which displays child relations in a drop-down manner.

TreeViewEx (VS 2005 only)

The NTreeViewEx is a completely custom control written from scratch in 100% C# code. Its main purpose is to eliminate most of the drawbacks of the standard tree-view which ships with Windows Forms while providing superior performance and memory optimization. The control is capable of displaying 100 000+ nodes with ease and at the same time resizing remains instant. Following is a brief description of the control's main features:

Simple and intuitive object model

Extremely fast and optimized. Can be resized instantly

Rich event model allowing for virtually any behavior to be overridden and/or extended

Completely customizable appearance based on visual states per tree-view or node basis. Complete adorners (boxes and lines) control

Rich texts per tree-view and node basis

Super tips and context menus per node basis

Checkbox support - standard and/or radio. Check style per tree-view and node basis. Smart check support - for example if a node's check state changes all ascendants and descendants are updated to reflect this change

Indicator - either on left or right edge. Predefined indicator images

Item drag-and-drop with rich visual feedback

XML persistency - the entire tree may be saved to and loaded from XML files

XML viewer - given a XML file the tree-view may populate its content in a human-readable manner

Scroll support - you have complete support over the scrolling behavior of the control

What's new in Nevron User Interface for .NET Q2 2007:

Gallery Panel - The NGalleryPanel is an item-container control which mimics the Microsoft® Office 2007 galleries. 4 different types of item layout are provided so that the panel may be used as an extended list-box or list-view. Based on the Nevron generic UI element, the NGalleryItem component is highly customizable in each aspect of visual representation, including rich texts, alpha-blended images, custom item size, etc.

ListView - The NListView extends the standard Windows Forms ListView control and adds missing features like complete control over header and header items, alternating rows, column sorting, sorted column glyph, sorted column shading, custom scrollbars, etc.

Rotator - The NRotator is a very useful control which brings the popular "Rotator" feature from ASP.NET to your Windows Forms. The control contains a collection of frames where each frame is described by a generic UI element providing complete control over visual appearance, image and text. The well-designed set of properties will enable you with fine-tune control over frame duration, animation speed, animation direction plus much more

Command Bars – ImageTextRelation - Provides complete control over the image and text entities of an NCommand object by specifying the ImageTextRelation property of its parent

Task Dialog - Radio Buttons - The NTaskDialog is further extended and now it supports a set of radio-buttons for richer user experience. The radio buttons are layouted just below the Content section of the dialog

Docking Panels - Sizing Restrictions - Nevron Docking Panels are now enabled with sizing restrictions in floating state. You may alter the MinimumSize, MaximumSize and Sizable properties of a floating container directly

Docking Panels - Visual Tab Navigation -Nevron Docking Panels are the only Docking Library which enables you with the advanced CTRL+TAB visual navigation found in Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005. Pressing Ctrl+Tab will display a NPopup containing two gallery panels - one containing all active docking panels and one containing all active documents. Optionally this feature may be turned on and off via the VisualTabNavigation property of an NDockManager. You may also change the shortcut which triggers the pop-up

Navigation Pane - Expand/Collapse - The NNavigationPane is extended with the Collapse/Expand feature found in Microsoft® Office 2007. By clicking the button on the caption of the pane you toggle its state. When the pane is collapsed you may display the currently active band by clicking in the area below the caption and above the buttons stack

What's new in Nevron User Interface for .NET Q1 2007:

Skinning Support

Standalone Skin Editor

Generic Popup

Popup combo

Calculator

Drop-down calculator

Tooltip controller

Data navigator

File look-up

Improved Visual Studio 2005 Integration

What's New in Q4 2006:

Localization - The NLocalizationManager provides simple yet elegant solution for localizing Nevron's internal strings. It contains a user-definable dictionary which is used whenever a translation request is made. You may also explicitly disable the manager if no more modifications are allowed.

Extended Entry Controls - The "Entry Control" logic has been greatly extended. Instead of creating an entry wrapper for every single control in the library you may simply drop a NEntryContainer instance on a Form and specify its EntryControl property. This enables you to have virtually any control wrapped, not only the ones that ship with Nevron User Interface. Additional settings like FillBoundingBox, Interactive and LabelControlRelation provide fine tune support for creating visually appealing entry forms.

Palette Color Pane - The NPaletteColorPane represents a color pane which color entries are palette-defined. Two predefined palettes are provided - Office2003 and Default.

Hyper Links - Nevron Rich Text support has been greatly improved and optimized. Available per UIElement basis is hyper-link support.

Date Time Picker - The NDateTimePicker component extends the standard System.Windows.Forms one with border and drop-down button appearance which makes it consistent with the overall look-and-feel of the Nevron User Interface components.

Task Dialog – The NTaskDialog is a modern replacement of the standard plain MessageBox plus feature-rich user-input dialog. Inspired by the excellent TaskDialogs in Microsoft Windows Vista, this component will bring to your Windows Forms applications platform-independent Vista-like experiences.

What's New in Q3 2006?

User Interface for .NET

Entry Box

Desktop Toolbar

Extended Tooltip

TrackBar

Popup Notify

Skinned ScrollBars

Docking Panels

UIPanel

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Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0

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Component Type: .NET WinForms, .NET Class, 100% Managed Code

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