Happy New Year Good People!

Today we are releasing 11.6 version of DotNetBar with brand new Progress Steps control. Progress Steps control allows you to present progress of a process which consists of multiple steps. Here is screen-shot of control in action:

Each step in process is represented by separate item (StepItem) and each item provides you with Minimum, Maximum and Value properties so you can show current step progress, if needed.

ProgressSteps control supports text-markup, allows you to set images or symbols for each item as well as control whether items are tracking mouse using HotTracking property. Color schemes for all styles we provide Office 2007, 2010, 2013 etc. is included.

There are over 40 new features and fixes in this release. If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. Thank you so much for using our controls. Stay tuned for more 

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Hi Everyone,

Today we are releasing 11.7 version of DotNetBar with Cell Merging functionality for SuperGrid control. Cell merging has been long requested feature and we’ve been working on it for a while now and have implemented really flexible and expansive functionality for you. Here are couple of images to illustrate that. First image shows column header merging:

Here is an example of cell merge, notice how cells are merged vertically and horizontally:

Here are some of the features of SuperGrid Merge:

• Merging helps you unclutter the grid display and makes data easier to evaluate
• Merging is available in all grid modes: bound, unbound, virtual etc.
• Great merging performance even with large data sets
• Merge cells and column headers vertically or horizontally
• Style each merge area individually
• User can fully interact with grouped column headers (move, resize, click, etc.)
• Text-markup fully supported for merged headers

There are over 20 other new features and fixes in this release. If you have current DotNetBar license download latest release on Customer Only web site. Fully functional trial version is also available. Thank you so much for using our controls. As always, we are already working on adding even more useful functionality to help you create professional apps with ease.

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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.

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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.

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3. DotNetBar for WPF 7.0 with METRO Controls Released

On March 19th we have passed our 15th year in business. I did not realize that 15 years has passed, it does not feel like it, but indeed it did.

I don’t have much to say, but I want to express my gratitude and sincere thanks to all our customers. You are reason we are here 15 years later. You always come first. Thank you. And here is to another 15 years.

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Hello Good People!

Today we are releasing 11.8 version of DotNetBar with touch friendly Office Mobile 2014 style as seen in Office apps for iPad. Here is screen-shot which shows this exciting new styling:

This style is part of our Metro styling so all colors are automatically generated by simply setting one color to base your color scheme on. Using that its simple matter to get following color scheme:

In images above also note new SuperTabControl style that was designed specifically for this style. Choosing this style will also enlarge all buttons on toolbars etc. to make them touch friendly.

We created How To Tutorial to teach you how to make user interface just like shown in images above. Please check it out.

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.

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Today we are releasing 11.9 version of DotNetBar with advanced ListBox control. This control replaces system ListBox and CheckedListBox controls and it includes support for all DotNetBar styles. It allows you to easily display images or symbols next to list items and it also includes touch support and text-markup support. Here is screen-shot which shows this control:

Data-binding support is also included as well as single and multi-selection modes. Please check out ListBoxAdv sample which you can find at My Documents\DotNetBar WinForms Samples

You can read all about ListBoxAdv features in ListBoxAdv knowledge base article. Please check it out.

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.

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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.

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Today we are releasing 12.1 version of DotNetBar with new Token Editor control. Token Editor is an advanced text-box control which parses the text entered by user and converts it into the distinct set of tokens. Similar to email address entry text-box in modern email clients, but more flexible. Each text-part, token is validated before being accepted so it can be rejected if it does not pass the validation. Here is screen-shot which shows this control:

Control includes built-in support for auto-complete and auto-complete popup with filtered list of available tokens will be displayed and updated as user performs the text input:

To learn more about this control please read TokenEditor knowledge base article.

There are over 60 other new features and fixes in this release. 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.

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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.

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Today we are releasing 12.3 version of DotNetBar with new SideNav control. SideNav control allows you to create so called hamburger menu apps or simply just add resizable and expandable tabs to your app. Here is screen-shot which shows this control:

SideNav control consist of the tabs positioned vertically on left hand side with optional first button which collapses and expands the tab display:

Control is touch device friendly due to the large size of each tab and tabs position on screen edge so they are easier to reach using touch while holding the device.

SideNav control allows end users to resize it by using the resize-handle which is positioned on the right-edge of the control:

To learn more about this control please read SideNav control knowledge base article. There are over 30 other new features and fixes in this release. 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.

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Today we are releasing 12.5 version of DotNetBar with new Desktop Alerts component. This new component helps you display desktop alerts on any version of Windows, XP or newer.

Desktop alerts are used in similar way you use MessageBox. To display an alert you call DesktopAlert.Show method which provides number of overloads for different alert options. The alert text supports text-markup and you can display symbol or image on the alert.

You can specify an method to be called if alert is clicked by the end user and you can also handle the clicks on any text-markup hyperlinks you use in the alert text.

If multiple alerts are being displayed, they will be stacked on top of each other. Alerts can be displayed on any of the 4 screen corners. We include several predefined colors for alerts but if needed you can set your own as well. Make sure to checkout the sample project which you can find at My Documents\DotNetBar WinForms Samples\DesktopAlert folder.

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.

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If your Visual Studio 2015 or earlier is not showing newly installed templates, like for example if you install DotNetBar and templates for new forms are not showing up (Office Form, Metro Form etc.) its possible that your settings cache files are corrupted so try closing all instances of VS.NET and go to the VS.NET installation folder where devenv.exe file is.

From command prompt execute:

Devenv /ResetSettings

That should reset the settings and likely show all new templates.

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1. New: Flyout.FlyoutForm property added to return reference to flyout form when flyout is displayed
2. New: MetroTileItem: Adding support for text-markup rendering for TitleText
3. Fixed: Mouse-wheel scrolling on Ribbon, and various tab-strips should function consistently now
4. Fixed: ScheduleControl: Fixed a display issue in Year View when appointment crossed display boundary.
5. Fixed: ChartControl: Fixed an issue with DateTime month calculation when MinorTickCount set to non-zero value.

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3. Major new release of DotNetBar for Windows Forms around corner, act now!

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