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Why DotNetBar™ for WPF?

Comprehensive. Wpf-Ribbon fully supports Office 2007 User Interface Guidelines. Wpf-Dock provides fully featured docking framework.

Reliability and Engineering. Our product is based on customer requests and it is engineered with highest attention to detail.

Source Code. No mysteries here, full source code is available if you need it.

 

Testimonials

We used the previous ribbon bar from DevComponents in our NovaMind 3 Mind Mapping application, and have always been happy with the quality of the product, and the flexibility and feature set of the components.

In NovaMind 4, we are moving to a WPF based application, and have found the WPF Ribbon to be even better. We are now able to streamline our code by the use of the action programming paradigm, data bindings, the improved automatic layout features and better handling of popup windows. This means that we are able to produce a much better application for our customers, and do it more quickly than we could in the past.

When there have been issues to be resolved, the response from DevComponents has always been fast - some of the best support we have encountered from any company.

It is a pleasure working with your staff and the benefits of using the DotNetBar and WPF Ribbon has given NovaMind a huge strategic advantage in the Mind Mapping market.    Gideon King, CEO
NovaMind Software
Mind Mapping Software
www.nova-mind.com

WPF Navigation Pane Control

Navigation Pane control is native WPF control that provides Outlook 2010 and 2007 style navigation that you can include as part of your professional WPF applications. Screen-shot below shows the Navigation Pane control in action. Office 2010 Style:

WPF Office 2010 Outlook style Navigation Pane Control

Office 2007 Style:

WPF Office 2007 Outlook style Navigation Pane Control

What is Navigation Pane?

Navigation Pane control combines the buttons on the bottom part of the control and views associated with each button displayed on top part of the control when button is selected. Button can be represented in large and small size. Mail button in image above shows button in large size. The buttons at the bottom of the control are in small size.

Navigation Pane control can also be customized by end users using customization menu opened by customize button in bottom right corner of the control.

Image below identifies key parts of Navigation Pane control:

Outlook 2007 style Navigation Pane Control Anatomy

1. Small button representation
2. Large button representation
3. View/Content associated with the button
4. View title or button header if title not specified
5. Minimize/Maximize Navigation Pane button
6. Splitter to change number of large buttons visible
7. Navigation Pane Customization button

Navigation Pane control has built-in support for minimizing (size reduction). Using the Minimize/Maximize header button you can change Navigation Pane size. Image below shows minimized Navigation Pane:

Outlook 2007 style Navigation Pane Minimized and Content displayed on popup menu

Navigation Pane includes 3 standard Office 2007 color schemes: Blue, Silver and Black. Custom color scheme generation based on single color and one of our color schemes is also fully supported.

Navigation Pane Office 2007 style color schemes

 

Please download free fully functional trial version of DotNetBar for WPF and see how easy it is to create professional looking WPF applications.

Screen shots above use icons from our Professional Icon Pack.

What is WPF?

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the next generation presentation layer for Windows included in .NET Framework 3.0. WPF is intended to replace GDI+, Win32 presentation layer which underpins the Windows Forms. Read an introduction to WPF and find out more about WPF on Microsoft Windows Client site.


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