User Interface Library?
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Does anyone know of a free/inexpensive C# UI library that provides the same stuff we get in VS2008 as far as docking windows and such are concerned? I'm not really interested in a WPF solution unless that's all that's available.
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Does anyone know of a free/inexpensive C# UI library that provides the same stuff we get in VS2008 as far as docking windows and such are concerned? I'm not really interested in a WPF solution unless that's all that's available.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001The .NET runtime comes with one :p Sorry, I don't know. Perhaps Infragistics or Telerik would have a lot of stuff but it won't be free or cheap.
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Does anyone know of a free/inexpensive C# UI library that provides the same stuff we get in VS2008 as far as docking windows and such are concerned? I'm not really interested in a WPF solution unless that's all that's available.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Devexpress has that and depending on how much you need/want it can be relativly cheap http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WinForms/Bars/info.xml [EDIT]apperantly inserting as a link doesn't work :sigh: it's the xtrabars suite [/EDIT] I think this suite has what you need but you might want to ask the support guys first usually you get an answer within 1-2 days (even if you haven't bought yet) or you can just use the trial and see if you can get it working like I did 8 months ago.
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Does anyone know of a free/inexpensive C# UI library that provides the same stuff we get in VS2008 as far as docking windows and such are concerned? I'm not really interested in a WPF solution unless that's all that's available.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001There's a project here on CP called Magic Dock that might have something of value ...
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Does anyone know of a free/inexpensive C# UI library that provides the same stuff we get in VS2008 as far as docking windows and such are concerned? I'm not really interested in a WPF solution unless that's all that's available.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001You may want to check out Doc Panel Suite[^] and DockDotNet[^]. The latter is more recent, although I must confess I haven't used either personally. [edit] Just saw this[^] CP article (also untried). However, the author's articles are of high quality. [edit] /ravi
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You may want to check out Doc Panel Suite[^] and DockDotNet[^]. The latter is more recent, although I must confess I haven't used either personally. [edit] Just saw this[^] CP article (also untried). However, the author's articles are of high quality. [edit] /ravi
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Thanks - I'll look at those. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Devexpress has that and depending on how much you need/want it can be relativly cheap http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WinForms/Bars/info.xml [EDIT]apperantly inserting as a link doesn't work :sigh: it's the xtrabars suite [/EDIT] I think this suite has what you need but you might want to ask the support guys first usually you get an answer within 1-2 days (even if you haven't bought yet) or you can just use the trial and see if you can get it working like I did 8 months ago.
I second the DevExpress toolkit. We're using it for the complete rewrite of our old C++ Borland OWL! UI based application :D
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Thanks - I'll look at those. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Recommend Dock Panel Suite.. used that in a couple of projects awhile back with great results.
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Does anyone know of a free/inexpensive C# UI library that provides the same stuff we get in VS2008 as far as docking windows and such are concerned? I'm not really interested in a WPF solution unless that's all that's available.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001DevExpress offers some of their controls free. Take a look at DevExpress[^]
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Does anyone know of a free/inexpensive C# UI library that provides the same stuff we get in VS2008 as far as docking windows and such are concerned? I'm not really interested in a WPF solution unless that's all that's available.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Whatever you come across be sure it's pure .net i.e. MONO compliant if you ever plan on your apps needing to run on Mac's, Linux etc. Nearly all the big commercial .net UI libraries make heavy use of p/invokes to get the job done and are not pure .net or portable. (even though they always state 100% managed code). I think they came on the scene early and all their developers were so used to unmanaged code they couldn't help themselves.
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Recommend Dock Panel Suite.. used that in a couple of projects awhile back with great results.
Seconded. It is stable and feature-complete, with the important exception of OpenGL windows - I had to tweak it to make it stable enough in that case. Also note that it is not pure C#, it P/Invokes some Win32 API, thus it does not work on Mono.
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Seconded. It is stable and feature-complete, with the important exception of OpenGL windows - I had to tweak it to make it stable enough in that case. Also note that it is not pure C#, it P/Invokes some Win32 API, thus it does not work on Mono.
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
it P/Invokes some Win32 API, thus it does not work on Mono.
Like any real programmer is gonna worry about a framework that is a step and a half behind the current version of .Net...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote:
it P/Invokes some Win32 API, thus it does not work on Mono.
Like any real programmer is gonna worry about a framework that is a step and a half behind the current version of .Net...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Well, I find Mono promising, but that's just me. Nowadays System.Windows.Forms is feature-complete, and what's missing is basically a lot of bug reporting and squashing. I'm doing my little share of work by periodically taking my pet projects, running them through MoMA and sending out the reports of what's missing. Sometimes I fill bug reports about the errors I find by running my app in their SuSE VM - it takes just a few minutes, and someone will fix them sooner or later. In a more general speech, the availability of a fully managed windowing system would greatly benefit the linux environment, since the native UI frameworks all feature that horrid "primitive" look. Nobody but the Mono folks in the linux world seem to understand that they need to give the users something they're familiar with before they'll even start considering using it. Beside that, is anyone really using the latest versions of every Microsoft technology on all of their projects? I know several companies that have working .net 1.1 apps in place, and have no plans to port them on 2.0 or later. Maybe I should tell them to fire their developers, since they obviously aren't real programmers...
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Well, I find Mono promising, but that's just me. Nowadays System.Windows.Forms is feature-complete, and what's missing is basically a lot of bug reporting and squashing. I'm doing my little share of work by periodically taking my pet projects, running them through MoMA and sending out the reports of what's missing. Sometimes I fill bug reports about the errors I find by running my app in their SuSE VM - it takes just a few minutes, and someone will fix them sooner or later. In a more general speech, the availability of a fully managed windowing system would greatly benefit the linux environment, since the native UI frameworks all feature that horrid "primitive" look. Nobody but the Mono folks in the linux world seem to understand that they need to give the users something they're familiar with before they'll even start considering using it. Beside that, is anyone really using the latest versions of every Microsoft technology on all of their projects? I know several companies that have working .net 1.1 apps in place, and have no plans to port them on 2.0 or later. Maybe I should tell them to fire their developers, since they obviously aren't real programmers...
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
I've got some stuff that is 3.5-only, and the app I'm working on at work is 3.5. We'll probably move to 4.0 immediately when it comes out. "Promising" doesn't cut it in a mission critical situation.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Does anyone know of a free/inexpensive C# UI library that provides the same stuff we get in VS2008 as far as docking windows and such are concerned? I'm not really interested in a WPF solution unless that's all that's available.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Sounds like you're back to work. Good to have work in the current economy. :cool:
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