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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 Super Tab Control

Super Tab Control is designed to provide you with incredible looking and flexible tab control with numerous visual styles. There are over 1100 colors that define styles provided with the control. Following 6 visual styles are included:

  • SuperTabControl Office 2007 style
  • SuperTabControl Office2010 Backstage blue style
  • SuperTabControl Visual Studio 2008 Dock Style
  • SuperTabControl Windows Media Player 12 style
  • SuperTabControl OneNote 2007 style
  • SuperTabControl Visual Studio 2008 Document style
  • Office 2007 with Blue, Black and Silver variants
  • Office 2010 Backstage
  • Visual Studio 2008 Dock
  • Windows Media Player 12
  • OneNote 2007
  • Visual Studio 2008 Document

Each style allows tabs to be aligned to top, bottom left and right. Notice that when tab alignment has changed the tab and other gradient fills change appropriately.

Tab Colors

You can assign one of the 14 predefined colors to each tab. You can also easily define your own tab colors. Here is screen-shot with all predefined colors available:

SuperTabControl per-tab colors

Tab Closing Options

Super Tab Control includes feature that allows tab closing by the end user. Following options are available:

Close button visible on each tab:

SuperTabControl close button visible on tab

Close button visible on tab only if mouse is positioned over the tab:

SuperTabControl close button visible on mouse over

Close button visible in tab header:

SuperTabControl close button in tab header

You have full control over close button visibility. Visibility can be specified for each individual tab or for all tabs on tab control.

Adding Content To Tab Header

Super Tab Control allows you to add any content to the tab header (tab strip area). You can add content before the tabs or after the tabs. In screen-shot below note how we added + (plus) button to the tab header:

SuperTabControl content added to header, tabstrip area

Drag & Drop Tab Re-order

Super Tab Control includes functionality that allows end-user to re-order the tabs. If enabled user can simply drag & drop tabs to re-order them. Screen-shot below shows that in action:

SuperTabControl tab drag & drop re-ordering

Tab Layout

Super Tab Control can align tabs to all 4 sides of the control. In addition to that you can choose following tab layouts:

  • Single line tab layout
  • Single line to fit available space
  • Multi-line tab layout

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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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