Today we are releasing DotNetBar for WPF 7.8 with Mobile Ribbon set of controls. Mobile Ribbon is a ribbon style used in mobile Office apps on iOS, Android and Windows 10. Here is screen-shot that shows new set of controls:

Major controls included with MobileRibbon are:

• Touch Ribbon with theme set for primary ribbon colors: blue, green, orange or purple
• Top-level ribbon Window with custom chrome
• MobileRibbon Buttons
• MobileRibbon Gallery
• MobileRibbon Popups
• MobileRibbon Backstage
• MVVM support

MobileRibbon includes primary ribbon colors themes which can also be fully customized:

DotNetBar MobileRibbon includes support for the integrated Backstage menu as shown:

Please make sure to check out MobileRibbon Knowledge Base article for more details.

DotNetBar for WPF now includes over 39 controls that help you create professional WPF Applications with ease. If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. We are working on even more major new exciting features and please do not hesitate to send me your feedback and wishes. Thank you for using our controls and please let me know how you like them.

Today we are releasing DotNetBar for WPF 7.7 with 3 brand new controls: Advanced TextBox, Toast Notifications component and Progress Steps control.

Advanced TextBox control extends standard WPF TextBox by adding several new features like bindable SecurePassword property and password “peek” ability, auto-complete support, masking to enforce specific format on the text input and more.

Please make sure to check out AdvTextBox Knowledge Base article for more details.

Toast Notifications component provides ability to display a message that appears on the surface of the screen for specific time duration and it does not take focus, or pause current activity.

Progress Steps control helps you present progress of a multi-step process:

Please make sure to check out ProgressSteps Knowledge Base article for more details.

DotNetBar for WPF now includes over 38 controls that help you create professional WPF Applications with ease. If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. We are working on even more major new exciting features and please do not hesitate to send me your feedback and wishes. Thank you for using our controls and please let me know how you like them.

Today we are releasing DotNetBar for WPF 7.5 with brand new Toggle Switch control. DotNetBar toggle switch control is a touch and mouse friendly switch designed to be used anywhere you need to represent the two state setting in your application. For example a service running, auto-save option in your application etc. Here is how control looks like in such an usage case:

Control is fully customizable and it includes built-in header/label.

Please make sure to check out Toggle Switch Knowledge Base article for more details. There is also new sample project you should review which can be found at: My Documents\DotNetBar for WPF Samples\ToggleSwitch

If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. We are working on even more major new exciting features and please do not hesitate to send me your feedback and wishes. Thank you for using our controls and please let me know how you like them.

Today we are releasing DotNetBar for WPF 7.4 with brand new Radial Menu control. Radial Menu is a touch and mouse friendly context menu control to provide visually pleasing and fast access to your application commands.

Here is screen-shot from included sample:

Radial Menu include 7 built-in color themes and support for our Office 2013 and 2010 like styling.

Other features include:

• Support for MVVM
• Use as Context Menu
• Use as button on the form with built-in drag and move
• Create radial menus using code only
• 7 built-in color themes
• Full color theme customization

Please make sure to check out RadialMenu Knowledge Base article for more details.

Here are detailed Release Notes. If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. We are working on even more major new exciting features and please do not hesitate to send me your feedback and wishes. Thank you for using our controls and please let me know how you like them.

Hi Everyone,

We are releasing DotNetBar for WPF 7.2 with Office 2013 styling for the Ribbon, Docking, Editors and Schedule controls. Core to new styling is our Office 2013 color scheme generation algorithm which will create complete color scheme for controls based on single base color you specify. So having as many color schemes as you want is super easy:

There is also updated Backstage application menu:

Our docking control also receives new Office 2013 inspired styling:

Schedule control styling has been updated as well, here is screen-shot of the new month view:

Here are detailed Release Notes. If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. We are working on even more major new exciting features, but please do not hesitate to send me your feedback and wishes. Thank you for using our controls and please let me know how you like them.

This week we have released DotNetBar for WPF 7.1 with new advanced Data-Grid control. Data-Grid control provides you with easy data presentation control including built-in editors and Office like styling. Following screen-shot shows our new AdvGrid control in action:

AdvGrid includes following major features:

• Built-in editors with complete editing framework so you can create custom editors
• Built-in data virtualization
• Row pinning to either top or bottom of viewport
• Column pinning to left or right of viewport
• Sorting by multiple columns
• Office 2010 like styling
• Column definition properties can be data bound to elements in the visual tree and to the data context of the grid
• Extended selection functionality and ability to select an entire column or range of columns

Built-in editors allow easy data editing and you can also create your own editors:

There is much more to our new AdvGrid control. Make sure to check the sample project that you can find at: My Documents\DotNetBar for WPF Samples\AdvGridSample

Getting started with AdvGrid Knowledge Base article is great resource to help you start using new controls. Please use it.

Here are detailed Release Notes. If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. We are working on even more major new exciting features, but please do not hesitate to send me your feedback and wishes. Thank you for using our controls and please let me know how you like them.

How many is the “bunch”? How about 4? Here is what we included with this release:

1. Circular progress bar control with endless and percentage based process run-time reporting.

2. Rating control so you can easily provide content rating.

3. Standalone Brush and Color picker controls. We use this internally in our advanced property grid and now you can use them as well.

4. Advanced Toolbar control with 6 built-in styles, stretch-to-fill and overflow customization options.

Here are detailed Release Notes. If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. We are working on even more major new exciting features, but please do not hesitate to send me your feedback and wishes. Thank you for using our controls.

If you have in your WPF project an ResourceDictionary that you use to define resources you can create an instance of it from code like this:

ResourceDictionary res = Application.LoadComponent(
 new Uri("/WpfApplication7;component/RedRibbonBar.xaml", 
 UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute)) as ResourceDictionary;

Where WpfApplication7 is name of your assembly and RedRibbonBar.xaml is name of your ResourceDictionary.

Another less known way of doing same thing is defining the code-behind for the resource dictionary. I have not found an automated way of doing this in VS.NET 2010 so I do it manually.

First you add x:Class to your ResourceDictionary definition like so:

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
 x:Class ="WpfApplication7.RedRibbonBar">

Then you add class to your project that holds code-behind and you name it RedRibbonBar.xaml.cs where you change the name to whatever your resource dictionary name is.

The code behind class looks like so:

partial class RedRibbonBar: ResourceDictionary
{
   public RedRibbonBar()
   {
      InitializeComponent();
   }     
}

Note that you need to change RedRibbonBar I used here to the name of your ResourceDictionary. Then you create simply new instance of your dictionary like so:

ResourceDictionary res = new RedRibbonBar();