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What's new in UI ControlSuite .NET V11.1? - The following new components are now included:

• BinarySlideshow .NET for Silverlight 3
• BinarySlideshow .NET for WPF
• BinaryControlResizerWPF .NET for WPF
• BinaryGlassButton .NET for WPF

What's new in UI ControlSuite .NET V10.5?

Enhancements to BinaryRibbon for WPF .NET

• NEW: New Custom Ribbon skins out-of-the-box: Ten new Custom skins that you can simply choose and apply to your applications instantly.
• NEW: Easier skinning of Ribbon control: The API expose the ComponentResourceKeys (CRKs) of all the relevant resource objects that are used by the control, to render the Ribbon. You will simply create a custom resource dictionary, use the exposed API to set the various brushes/resources, and merge the dictionary into your Application object's Resources.
• NEW: Easy layout Scale transformation. plus full Vista and Windows 7 Aero Glass support: The Layout scaling is easy to apply - i.e. you don't have to code / XAML the scale transformation yourself. The control's Window object i.e. BinaryRibbonWindow class has a new property that accepts a double value for the Scaling factor. It will scale the entire window - i.e. the Window titlebar, control buttons area, as well as the Ribbon Panel (where you host all your ribbon bar content), automatically with the value you set using this simple dependency property on the BinaryRibbonWindow control.
  The Scaling transform supports Vista and Windows 7 Aero glass fully - i.e. the scaling logic will also ensure that the Aero Glass that is extended into the Window Title frame fully covers the entire area of the newly scaled up/down Window title bar (a.k.a. Non-client area) with glass.
• NEW: Right-to-left support: The control exposes a simple to use property at the RibbonWindow level (and also at the RibbonPanelBar control level) to let you specify whether the control's FlowDirection will be Right-to-left or the default Left-to-right.
• NEW: New animation effects of mouse hovering on non-selected Ribbon tab item headers.
• NEW: Glass support for the Application menu button: The Application menu button now supports more precise "glass" rendering, and also can be skinned by accepting a background colour for its internal glass fill. Now there are two button styles available to choose from: a) Default Standard Office styleand b) Glass Fill style.

Silverlight Components

BinarySlideShow .NET is a comprehensive SlideShow management and viewing control for the WPF and Silverlight 3 .NET applications. The control is capable of hosting any content as its slides, and exposes APIs to control the slideshow viewing. The control also has several slide transition effects out-of-the-box.

BinaryVirtualizingWrapPanel .NET - A "UI Virtualizing" WrapPanel control for the Silverlight 3 .NET framework.

BinaryVirtualizingWrapPanel .NET is a UI Virtualization capable WrapPanel control for the Silverlight .NET applications. The control is extremely helpful in boosting the performance of UI, especially when you have the need to associate large amounts of data with an ItemsControl that has to display content in an automatic Wrapping fashion.  The control has been written from scratch, implementing custom layout and scrolling logic, and providing support for two display orientations  - Vertical and Horizontal.

WPF Components

BinarySlideShow .NET is a comprehensive SlideShow management and viewing control for the WPF and Silverlight 3 .NET applications. The control is capable of hosting any content as its slides, and exposes APIs to control the slideshow viewing. The control also has several slide transition effects out-of-the-box.

BinaryScrollViewer .NET - A suite of fully skinnable ScrollViewer and ScrollBars .NET controls for the WPF platform.

Features include:

• This control instantly replaces the standard .NET WPF ScrollViewer and ScrollBar (Primitive) controls. It also allows you to completely customise the ScrollBar's all UI aspects, by simply letting you to set the desired colours/brushes for the each element of the ScrollBar UI.
• This control saves you from spending time in having to tweak into / re-writing the Visual Tree of the ScrollBar controls and the ScrollViewer's Style.
• It is all done for you already, and all that you will need to do is to simply setup the desired colours for each bit of the ScrollBar (Horizontal and Vertical ones) UI, and "pass it on" to the control by merging your custom resource dictionary containing the chosen colours/brushes into your application's Resources.
• No more of those days of having to put up with the out-of-the-box Windows Standard ScrollBar UI colours that are pretty much stuck to the OS's themes and hence have no synchronisation to your Application's colour theme.

BinaryTreeListViewWPF .NET - A WPF .NET control that merges the conventional Tree and List style views into one merged view for displaying hierarchical data in both databound and unbound modes.

Features include:

• Databinding support - BinaryTreeListviewWPF .NET control can be bound to any datasource - including XML, data from your LINQ queries, Array, ObservableCollection<T> or any source that implements IEnumerable interface.
• Supports grouping and sorting of items - You can setup the view (typically the CollectionView/CollevtionViewSource) of any given top level node (that has children) to be able to sort and group at the level of each node's children sibling nodes.
• Supports data bound and unbound modes - BinaryTreeListviewWPF .NET supports both data bound and unbound modes. You can simply use WPF Binding to point to any IEnumerable data source, OR be also able to add treelist items to the control, programatically or in XAML.
• Treeview column can be placed in any column of your choice - You can setup columns, and then choose any column to act as the tree-list column - i.e. the column that will expand/collapse its children. Additionally, the treelist column can be positioned in any column index position, not necessarily the first column.
• The control comes with several custom controls - BinaryTreeListviewWPF .NET comes with pre-written custom controls, including BinaryCheckbox, Imagebox, and colorpicker controls, that can be used as the control column's cell template.

BinaryRibbon .NET for WPF - A MS Office UI fluent Ribbon .NET control for the WPF platform.

BinaryRibbon .NET is a Ribbon .NET is a control that provides an out-of-the-box capability to add MS Office UI Ribbon style User Interfaces to your WPF .NET applications. The control fully complies with all the mandatory requirements set out by Microsoft for developing Office Ribbon styled applications / components. Using the composition model of WPF, you will be able to add all of the Ribbon enabled User experience that you see in MS Office 2007 products, into your WPF applications very easily, by using the WPF Ribbon control. The package comes with several Office 2007 styled controls, including ComboBox, EditBox, Menu, MenuItem, Menu item overflow controls, and many more that you would find handy to use in your WPF applications.

BinaryVirtualizingWrapPanel .NET - A "UI Virtualizing" WrapPanel control for the WPF .NET framework.

BinaryVirtualizingWrapPanel .NET is a UI Virtualization capable WrapPanel control for WPF applications. The control is extremely helpful in boosting the performance of UI, especially when you have the need to associate large amounts of data with an ItemsControl that has to display content in an automatic Wrapping fashion.  The control has been written from scratch, implementing custom layout and scrolling logic, and providing support for two display orientations - Vertical and Horizontal.

BinarySmartInfoPanel .NET - A stylish WPF Content control that can flip/rotate hosted content and display "double sided" content.

BinarySmartInfoPanel .NET provides a stylish way to present flip-capable double sided content. Using the control is very easy - just set up you content objects, and assign to the control's appropriate Dependency properties, and off you go - your content can be flipped back and forth. Just one line of XAML is all is needed to use this control (or just a couple of mouse clicks in Expression Blend). No coding necessary.

BinarySmartNavigator .NET - A suite of stylish and modern "Navigator" and "ListBox" controls for the WPF framework.

BinarySmartNavigator .NET provides a new way to present scrollable content in your WPF .NET applications. Instead of displaying data in tab pages/traditional listbox and let users to select / scroll across pages, you can now let your users view rich content and scroll across items/pages in a modern Listbox control manner. The control also provides a new and fancy way to scroll across items, by providing nice looking buttons and visually cute looking circles that indicate which item to scroll to / select next.  The control also provides two display orientations - Vertical and Horizontal. The package includes two controls written natively for WPF presentation framework.: A modern tab control, and a modern ListBox control.

BinaryColorPickerWPF .NET - An Office 2007 styled Color picker control for the WPF framework.

BinaryColorPickerWPF .NET does not use any WinForms interop / APIs.  Apart from the Office 2007 style UI, the control also provides several customisable properties and animations, and is also easily templatable.

Windows Forms Components

BinaryTreeListView .NET: A Treelistview control to display hierarchical data with collapsing/expanding nodes. BinaryTreeListView.NET is a Windows Forms .NET control that "merges" the conventional "Tree" and "List" style views into one merged view for displaying hierarchical data.

Features include:

• Out-of-the-box support for three custom column types: An Outlook style DatePicker column, a custom data-bound/un-bound multi-column display capable combobox column, and a custom numeric up/down spinner column
• Capable of rendering checkbox and radiobuttons inside the treelist node cell
• Treeview column can be placed in any column of your choice
• Customisation of line drawing style and color
• Multi-line text in treelistview column cell
• Customisation of node image and root node's expand/collapse image
• Node style customisation
• Customisable fore/back colors and font
• Freezing of columns
• Hide/unhide columns
• Raises rich events

BinaryComboBox .NET: A Multi-column combobox control. BinaryComboBox is an advanced multi-column data display capable ComboBox control for the .NET 2.0 framework.

Features include:

• Flat styled, feature rich and highly configurable multi-column combobox control
• Data-bound/unbound modes
• Advanced sorting capabilities
• Grouping of data
• Drag-and-drop of column headers
• Custom background color for drop-down list window
• Image support
• Auto suggest and auto complete features
• Rich designer support and extensive customization capabilities
• Enhanced display styles
• Ability to fully support Control painting with custom colors (with Alpha-blending support)
• Built-in mouse hovering effects
• Automatic support for a Drive List/Font List style
• Automatic theme rendering
• Automatic identification of the Operating system

BinarySuperTooltip .NET: A MS Office 2007 styled, highly customisable Supertooltip component. BinarySuperTooltip component gives you the popular MS Office 2007 styled super tooltip component for the .NET 2.0 framework.

Features include:

• MS Office 2007 "SuperTooltip" styled appearance and functionality
• Rich design-time editing support and Super Tooltip property extensions
• Built-in custom written UITypeEditor to enable you to configure its extendee control's various extended properties
• Partial or complete owner-draw support
• Display at user defined screen location
• Pre-defined color schemes
• Extensively customisable properties

BinaryPanelBar .NET: A MS Outlook© 2003/2007 style "Navigation bar" control. BinaryPanelBar .NET will instantly enable your .NET Windows Forms applications with the popular MS Outlook 2003/2007 style Navigation bar.

Features include:

• Outlook 2007 "Navigation bar" styled appearance, functionality with expand / collapse features
• Rich design-time editing experience
• Extensive designer support and in-place editing of objects
• Easy configuration of Header/sub-header and the context menu
• Office 2007 styled "glass" theme
• XP styled and custom theme rendering
• Extensive properties support
• Extensive UI customisation of control's elements
• Support for rich events

BinaryAlertPopup .NET: A MS Outlook and MSN styled "Desktop alert popup" component. BinaryAlertPopup .NET component will instantly enable your Windows Forms .NET applications with the popular MSN Instant Messenger and MS Outlook style popup alerts functionality. Just with one line of code, display "alert" popup windows to your application users.

Features include:

• MS Outlook and MSN styled "Desktop alert popup" rendering interfaces
• Hosting of custom controls
• Extensive UI customisation of component's UI elements and features
• Support for drawing the alert window using custom images
• Easy display of custom context menu
• Owner drawing of the alert popup window
• Custom alignment of title image
• Positioning of Body text/title text
• Out-of-the-box support for emulating/rendering all the three popular XP themes and custom themes
• Support for rich events

BinaryHeaderControl .NET: A fully customisable "Header" container control. BinaryHeaderControl .NET is a MS Outlook styled, feature-rich fully customisable "Header" container control. It will instantly enable your .NET Windows Forms applications with the popular MS Outlook styled "Header control".

Features include:

• MS Outlook styled fully customisable "Header" container control
• Extensive designer support and in-place editing of objects
• Header and Footer rendering
• Scrollable container
• Header context menu
• Built-in "color themes" for control rendering
• Enhanced design-time experience
• Support for rich events

BinarySmartButton .NET: An extended, dynamically configurable XP theme styled button control. BinarySmartButton .NET is an extended, feature-rich and dynamically configurable XP-theme styled button control. It is an extended replacement for the standard .NET Button control, providing a wealth of impressive features making your applications deliver awesome user experience.

Features include:

• "XP-theme" style UI
• Support for displaying images / icon along with their Alpha-channel information
• Menu Button style
• Rich designer support and IButtonControl interface implementation
• Support for rich events

BinaryDatePicker .NET: An extended, feature-rich MS Outlook© styled Calendar control. BinaryDatePicker .NET is an advanced Microsoft .NET WinForms Component, providing an Outlook styled, feature rich and highly configurable, calendar (date picker) functionality for Microsoft WinForms platform. Visual Studio .NET IDE integration lets you use the control without any programming. Just simple drag-and-drop and the control is set to do the work for you.

Features include:

• MS Outlook "styled" calendar control
• Supports dates from 01/02/0001 to 31/12/9999
• Full support for input of NULL dates
• Data Binding
• Built-in support for Internationalization
• Custom date formats
• Full support for configuration of Internal GUI Objects and to dynamically configure date/time culture information
• Support of Context menu
• Extensive UI customisation
• Customisation of drop-down calendar buttons
• Custom drawn "Text box" simulating XP style edit box
• Change dates using Keyboard shortcuts
• Custom Validation on dates typed-in
• Highlight dates of your choice, with special colors/formatting
• Mouse hovering effects   

BinaryToolTip .NET: An Extended and feature-rich ToolTip component. BinaryToolTip .NET is an advanced Microsoft .NET WinForms component, providing a feature-rich and highly configurable XP styled "ToolTip" component for the WinForms .NET platform. BinaryToolTip .NET is an extended replacement for the standard .NET ToolTip object, providing a wealth of impressive features, including the ever popular Windows XP styled Balloon ToolTip style, thereby making it easier for you to develop high quality GUI applications.

Features include:

• XP Styled Balloon tooltip
• Title text for the tooltip
• Image Support
• Full support for painting with custom colors and font
• DropShadow effects
• Full control over Balloon window painting
• Automatic tooltip location management
• Automatic Multiline Tooltips
• Display of tooltip on any location of your choice

BinaryExplorerBar .NET: An extended and feature-rich Windows Explorer styled navigation control. BinaryExplorerBar .NET is an extended, feature-rich and dynamically configurable Windows XP sidebar styled collapsible/expandible navigation control. This control will instantly enable your .NET Windows Forms with the popular Windows XP sidebar styled navigation bar. Simply drag-and-drop the control instance into your form's design surface, and with a couple of "mouse clicks" to set up its properties, the control is instantly ready to work. You won't need to write a single line of code to get this control setup and start working for you.

Features include:

• XP Sidebar/Taskbar style Navigation system
• Extensive designer support and in-place editing of objects
• Rich design-time experience
• Extensive properties support
• Extensive UI customisation of control's elements
• Automatic support for emulating XP theme rendering

BinaryMenuItem .NET: An Extended Owner-drawn, feature-rich, highly customisable MenuItem component. BinaryMenuItem .NET is an advanced Microsoft .NET WinForms UI control library, providing a feature-packed extended "Owner drawn" MenuItem component. The component is an instant ready-to-use replacement for the standard .NET MenuItem component. With BinaryMenuItem .NET, you can build your own custom menus, and also the Windows XP and Visual Studio style emulating .NET Menus in minutes.

Features include:

• Extended and simple to use MenuItem component
• Image support
• Ability to fully support Menu painting with custom colors (with Alpha-blending support)
• Direct support for dynamic property changes
• Emulates XP themes
• Emulates MS Office 2007 style ("glass" style) rendering etc

BinaryColorPicker .NET: An Extended, feature-rich and flat-styled suite of ColorPicker controls. BinaryColorPicker .NET is an extended, feature-rich and highly configurable, "flat" styled suite of Color picker controls. Your application users can pick colors of their choice in the most easiest and stylish way possible.

Features include:

• Office 2007 style Color picker window
• Contains two .NET objects, viz., BinaryColorPickerComboBox and BinaryColorPickerDropDown, thereby providing a feature-rich, flat-styled, out-of-the-box, readily usable color picker controls
• Configurable display styles
• Custom painting functionality out-of-the-box to give you amazing User experience
• Built-in mouse hovering GUI effects   

BinaryButtonSuite .NET: An extended, feature-rich and flat-styled "Checkbox and Radio button" controls collection. BinaryButtonSuite .NET is a GUI extended, feature-rich and flat-styled Checkbox & Radio button controls collection for the WinForms .NET platform.

Features include:

• Custom painting functionality out-of-the-box to give you amazing User experience
• Contains two .NET objects, viz., BinaryCheckBox and BinaryRadioButton controls, thereby providing a feature-rich replacement for the standard .NET controls - CheckBox and RadioButton controls respectively
• Built-in mouse hovering GUI effects   

BinaryUpDown .NET: An Extended, feature-rich and flat-styled UpDown (spinner) navigation control. BinaryUpDown .NET is an extended "flat" style, feature-rich and highly configurable set of UpDown / spinner navigation controls, which replaces the standard .NET framework UpDown controls.

Features include:

• Contains two .NET objects, viz., BinaryNumericUpDown and BinaryDomainUpDown, thereby providing a feature-rich replacement for the standard .NET controls - NumericUpdown and DomainUpDown respectively
• "Flat" style look-and-feel
• Provides its own custom painting functionality in order to support additional graphical user interface effects
• Built-in mouse hovering effects

BinaryExtendedText .NET: An Extended, feature-rich and flat-styled Text box control. BinaryExtendedText .NET is an advanced Microsoft .NET WinForms  control, providing a Visual Studio .NET styled, feature rich and highly configurable Text box control for the Microsoft WinForms .NET platform.

Features include:

• Supports two different styles for its display, viz., Standard Windows 3D text box style and an "extended feature rich" style
• "XP" style, enhanced "Password character" display (Win2000 and upwards only)
• Provides its own custom painting functionality in order to support additional graphical user interface effects
• Border blinking feature
• Built-in mouse hovering effects
• Contains BinaryNumericExtendedText control

 BinaryTreeViewComboBox .NET: An Extended combobox control displaying "Treeview" style data. BinaryTreeViewComboBox .NET is an extended version of our popular ComboBox control BinaryComboBox .NET. The control offers a flat styled, extended and feature rich ComboBox control with an ability to display a tree-view of data.

Features include:

• Displays "Tree-view" style data
• Different levels of data presentation
• Highly configurable properties
• Ability to fully support "Control painting" with custom colors (with Alpha-blending support)
• Built-in mouse hovering effects

BinarySmartNavigator .NET provides a new way to present scrollable content in your WPF .NET applications. Instead of displaying data in tab pages and let users to select / scroll across pages, you can now let your users view rich content and scroll across items/pages in a Listbox control manner. The control also provides a new and fancy way to scroll across items, by providing nice looking buttons and visual looking circles that indicate which item to scroll to / select next. The control also provides two display orientations - Vertical and Horizontal.