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SandShell for WPF by Divelements

URLs: sandshell-wpf, sandshell wpf, sandshellwpf, divelements

Easily create applications with familiar Outlook and Explorer user interfaces. SandShell is a set of controls that make it easy to create attractive navigation-based user interfaces like Microsoft Outlook and Windows Explorer. They help you organise your application's user interface into hierarchical sections visually distinct from one another, to effectively simplify every task the user must undertake. SandShell includes a WunderBar control for navigating between distinct panes and an ExplorerBar control for presenting multiple collapsible panes. The API for this product is very easy to learn and the markup used to create even the most involved applications is simple.

SandShell for WPF includes powerful desktop alert components that make full use of WPF templating and databinding technologies to make the creation of desktop alerts easy. Alerts can be any size and shape and can host anything from simple text to fully-interactive complex controls. Firing off an alert is as easy as one line of code, and the queue manager intelligently presents alerts one by one including animation transitions.

SandShell includes an Office 2007 theme that not only covers the controls within SandShell, but most of the standard WPF controls used in the typical Office 2007 interface too. This makes it easy to give your whole window a consistent look and feel. Divelements ship blue, silver and black color schemes for the Office theme and the developer is free to create their own color schemes or even completely retemplate the library to give it a truly unique appearance.

The ExplorerBar control automatically obtains its colors from the current Windows theme. Comprehensive designer integration is included and configuring every aspect of these controls and their behaviour is as simple as a few clicks on the design surface, ensuring you or your developers will be up-and-running in no time. Deployment of your application in a Web browser is possible with full XBAP support.

Full right-to-left support means you can deploy your application into any locale in the world and be assured your users will get the best experience possible.

SandShell provides all the controls and themes you need to recreate the non-Ribbon-based portions of the Office 2007 user interface in your WPF applications. If you cannot see a feature explained here, please try the evaluation version or contact us to ask us about it.

Features:

WunderBar Navigation

WunderBar is the Microsoft codename for the controls on the left of the Outlook shell that provides top-level navigation facilities for all its features. A WunderBar contains many panes, each of which has a header, an image and some content which is displayed in the main portion of the bar when selected. The bar itself can be collapsed, freeing screen real estate, and while collapsed the contents of the selected pane can still be accessed via a popup.

Every feature of the Office control has been recreated in SandShell for WPF. A splitter which can be used to resize or collapse the control is included as part of its template. The developer can choose to disable its collapsing or resizing features. You can also specify controls to display vertically when the selected pane is collapsed.

Office 2007 Themes

This library includes theme dictionaries that apply the Office 2007 look and feel to a number of the stock WPF controls. Not every control is covered but most of those seen in Outlook and other Office applications are. Divelements include themes for:

Menus

Toolbar Trays

Status Bars

Toolbars

Buttons inside toolbars

Scrollbars

Applying the themes to your application is as simple as one line of code in your XAML markup to include the resource dictionary in your window resources. Or, you can use the API to dynamically change the theme at runtime.

ExplorerBar Layout

The ExplorerBar displays multiple containers, all of which can be collapsed by the user. Some containers can be designated as primary containers for a different look and feel. As in Windows Explorer, this control uses movement and fading animations when the sections are being collapsed and expanded.

Easily create applications with familiar Outlook and Explorer user interfaces.

Pricing: SandShell for WPF V1.0 - includes 1 year free product updates and unlimited email support 1 Developer License, SandShell for WPF V1.0 - includes 1 year free product updates and unlimited email support 2-3 Developer License (Price per Developer, Minimum quantity 2), SandShell for WPF V1.0 - includes 1 year free product updates and unlimited email support 4-7 Developer License (Price per Developer, Minimum quantity 4), SandShell for WPF V1.0 - includes 1 year free product updates and unlimited email support 8 Developer License or above (Price per Developer, Minimum quantity 8), SandShell for WPF V1.0 - includes 1 year free product updates and unlimited email support Unlimited Site License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address), SandShell for WPF - Support Renewal 1 Developer Support Renewal License, SandShell for WPF - Support Renewal 2-3 Developer Support Renewal License (Price per Developer, Minimum quantity 2), SandShell for WPF - Support Renewal 4-7 Developer Support Renewal License (Price per Developer, Minimum quantity 4), SandShell for WPF - Support Renewal 8 Developer or above Support Renewal License (Price per Developer, Minimum quantity 8), SandShell for WPF - Support Renewal Unlimited Site Support Renewal License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address), WPF Bundle (All Divelements WPF Products) - includes 1 year free product updates and unlimited email support 1 Developer License

Evals & Downloads: Read the SandShell for WPF Documentation, Read the SandShell for WPF End User License Agreement, Download the SandShell for WPF V1.0 evaluation on to your computer - Displays Evaluation Messages

Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WPF

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

Keywords: SandShell Sand Shell SandShel Shel wunderbar wonderbar wonder wunder bar bars toolbar navigation navigate explorer explore exploring

User Interface UI

Explorer exploring explore

Toolbar tool bar tool-bar Toolbars Menu Menus Ribbon Ribbonbar

Popup Pop up pop-up Alerts Alert alerting alerted

Part numbers: PC-528172-191572 528172-191572 PC-528172-191573 528172-191573 PC-528172-191574 528172-191574 PC-528172-191575 528172-191575 PC-528172-191576 528172-191576 PC-528172-191577 528172-191577 PC-528172-191578 528172-191578 PC-528172-191579 528172-191579 PC-528172-191580 528172-191580 PC-528172-191581 528172-191581 PC-528172-276478 528172-276478