Please say name of this component and does c# have it?
As others have suggested, this is commonly called an Outlook Bar after it's most famous usage in the Microsoft Outlook application.
Something similar is available in most third-party control suites, but if you're looking for something that is free and easily customizable, you might check out the OutlookBar control available on CodeProject:
The control itself is pretty simple, and implemented entirely in managed C# code as a UserControl.It should work under all versions of the .NET Framework back to 1.1, and is painless to integrate into your application. Best of all, with the source code freely downloadable, it's infinitely customizable to fit your specific needs!
I think it is called accordion, at least in jQuery.
And I do not know of any such in the basic controlles that comes with c# but I am cetrain that there are many 3:rd party components like this.
ComponentArts or Telerik are the first that comes to mind.
In WinForms, this is called an Outlook Bar or Navigation bar.
Most (if not all) third-party control suites, such as DevExpress, offer it.
I think its name is Accordion and it doesn't exists natively on Windows Forms Architecture.
Accordion ? Try searching among different control toolkits - there should be an implementation.
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I want to change the appearance of the the form and the buttons, boxes etc which are laid on it. In java we can do that using Numbuzz look and feel or swing apperance. But i dont want to use the same traditional look of XP or any other OS which im gonna install my application, any one has an idea??
you could give Telerik a try and see if it's what you are looking for.
I'm using this library myself for application's design and i found it pretty cool. It has a lot of already made themes(like outlook controls...).
hope this helps
you could try to use WPF, WPF has been designed to make look and feel easily customizable.
or use vendor products like Infragistics WinForms (which allows you to specify Stylesheet kind of behaviour (search for infragisticsc stylesheet "ISL" ))
Our system is based on flows and activities and we want to give the analysts users the opportunity to create dynamics flows (at runtime). The designer UI based on SL 4.0 .
It looks like WorkflowFoundation is the most valuable solution but we didn`t find any WF version that fits to SL (to create the xaml in SL).
Any ideas? any other capable engines?
The standard workflow designer is WPF and doesn't work in silverlight. Creating a similar designer will be quite a bit of work. However a simplified designer might do the trick and as a workflows is just xaml which is just XML generating that should be no problem. I guess it depends on the flexibity required.
I am not aware of any 3rd party alternatives out there.
Neither WF3 or WF4 execute within the Silverlight client. This includes the designers.
Update: Check Here , it might do the job.
My employer has asked me to create some web pages with various charts - one of the requirements is to have a click through ability for further detials. I am looking for sugestions on chart libraries that I could use.
c#, .net 2.0
UPDATE:
I used zedgraph with a imagemap
drilldown Sample
Check out ZedGraph.
Seems to be a bit stale in terms of active development, but it may give you what you want.
You can check out: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx :-)
The free ASP.NET Charting controls support clickable regions. You can set a URL for individual data items.
As long as you don't mind wiring all this up, you'll be fine. If you want the drill-down to happen automatically, you'll want something more powerful.
In Java there's a useful class in the standard Swing libraries called 'JOptionPane' that provides a bunch of pre-made but customizable windows for displaying messages and getting (simple) user input.
I know there's 'MessageBox.Show(..)' to display Yes/No/Cancel type messages to the user in C#, but is there an equivalent class (or simple library) that provides easy-to-use customizable input boxes?
Something like the functionality available from JOptionPane is what I'm looking for.
As of windows vista, there is the taskdialog api.
This is an os feature, not a c# library, in that sense not what you asked. But it roughly covers the same ground: a more versatile messagebox api, that relieves you from manually layouting simple dialogs. If you google, you can find c# wrappers that emulate this api on older windows.
Finally, here is a blog entry how to use it in c#
Well, the only thing I can think of that's similar is this. It's part of Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll so you'll have to add a reference. I don't think there's any way of customizing it more than that, but that does give you a little more flexibility.
Examples could be Infragistics or DevExpress.
But I'm also looking for your opinions on other frameworks. It could even be WPF if that is your favorite.
Infragistics is very good. I think they have a better product for windows than the web. However, I get very upset using their products sometimes. I just want to find some hidden property, and it is impossible to find. They have way to many properties. Sure, you can do anything with their grid, but it should be easier. All of these vendors are leap frogging each other. You really have to compare all of them every year or two. I am currently using Infragistics on most web and windows project. If I could switch today, I would go to DevExpress for Web and Windows. Everything that Mark Miller and the guys at DevExpress produce is beautiful, and thoughtful. On a side point, you should check out CodeRush and Refacter. I may sound like a salesman, but I am not. I just could no longer code without CodeRush. It would feel like coding with one hand. If you are going to spend $1000 or more on a framework, you should also get CodeRush.
I've used Telerik RAD Controls for Asp.Net and it is a very comprehensive suite of controls that are easily converted to AJAX. The support is top notch, with the forum as a first place to go to for research before contacting the staff.
The client side API is fairly easy to understand, and they have good examples of mixed implementations with client and server side code.
I would say Infragistics
Haven't used it before, but I've heard good things about Telerik. My experience with the Infragistics Web components has been less than stellar. I found there were a lot of hidden features that I required, which were undocumented and had to go hunt around in the sample code for examples.
These toolkits can make sense for intranet applications but when you start providing it out on the web, the functionality can come at the cost of a bigger download for users. Just something to keep in mind.
What frameworks are you looking for? I currently use Janus Grids for grids on the winform side, but DevExpress has an awesome web grid that is amazing.
For current Winforms development my favorite is Infragistics. DevExpress seems to have more Silverlight controls in the works, but Infragistics may deliver.
I don't do much non-web development, but if I do I like to use gtk# for Mono (screenshots). It's much more fun and very easy to program then winforms. WPF looks good to, but I only tried an Hello World.
Infragistics has got good controls for Applications. WinGrid is one of the most important ones which would help you displaying information professionally and is quick.
the only drawback is the time consuming process of contacting their helpdesk or searching for the hidden properties. But they do work after you get to know them !
I would say go for DevExpress seems to be the most elegant, intuitive and well document suite out there.
To see their product offering in action demos.devexpress.com
Do the same for any component suite check out their demos and see which best suit you needs.