Xceed SmartUI offers a powerful collection of ActiveX controls and a modular framework designed specifically for Visual Basic 6 developers to easily build rich and customizable user interfaces. It supports full design-time interaction and flexible control appearance tailored to your application needs while minimizing resource consumption.
Comprehensive UI Controls
Provides a wide range of modern UI components such as menubars, toolbars, treeviews, status bars, property lists, and more, facilitating the creation of complete and interactive Visual Basic 6 applications.
Custom Control Creation
Enables developers to design and implement custom controls visually using the WYSIWYG designer or programmatically through a well-organized object model, supporting flexible item orientation and control transformations.
ActiveX Technology Integration
Built as a single fully self-contained ActiveX control without dependency on external libraries beyond VB6 runtime, ensuring easy deployment and 100% Unicode, RightToLeft, and large font support.
Lightweight and Windowless Architecture
Employs a windowless core control that significantly reduces resource usage, enabling fast, glitch-free interfaces capable of hosting many controls simultaneously on forms without performance degradation.
Unified Object Model
Uses a universal smart control and smart item design allowing all controls to share consistent properties, methods, and events, simplifying learning curves and enhancing application stability.
Full UI Customization
Offers extensive customization options for look and feel, including pixel-perfect skins mimicking Office 2000 and Office XP styles, along with precise control over item dimensions and behaviors like selection and mouse hovering.
Templates and Reusability
Supports saving and loading UI design templates created via code or designer, and facilitates image list management and UI consistency across multiple projects through reusable saved objects.
Rich Documentation and Samples
Includes comprehensive MSDN-style context-sensitive documentation and multiple practical lessons to accelerate development and facilitate mastery of all control features and capabilities.
Product Compatibility
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Component Type
ActiveX / COM Component
About Xceed Software
Xceed Software, founded in Montreal, Canada, is known for developing software components designed for developers working with .NET and WPF applications. Evolving from its early days creating Zip/Unzip and security utilities, Xceed now focuses on comprehensive user interface and data management components that support efficient, feature-rich application development. Its offerings are widely adopted by technology leaders and Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries. Xceed’s reputation is built on quality, customer-driven innovation, and the ability to address complex requirements with responsive technical support and continuous product improvement.