Windows Forms New Features - 2010 Volume 1

Get the newest visualization metaphors like Gantt charts and Windows® 7 scenic ribbons, support for the .NET 4 Client Profile build profile for Microsoft®Visual Studio® 2010, continued performance enhancements and much more in 2010Volume 1.

WinGanttView™ - NEW!

We've added a brand new scheduling UI control in WinGanttView so you can give your users a Microsoft® Project-style user experience within your own application. Its user interface is composed of a task grid and timeline, divided by a splitter that allows users to resize.Timeline We've leveraged WinTimelineView™ to provide a timescale-agnostic timeline upon which inter-dependent and summary task bars, sub-tasks, milestones, deadlines and more can be plotted and manipulated by drag-and-drop.

Task Grid

Interactive analysis such as sorting tasks by multiple fields (including start time, finish time, resource, percent complete and more) is best delivered in a tree-structured, task grid which leverages our WinGrid™ control.

Calendar Look and Calendar Info

If you have used WinSchedule™ before, then you'll like the familiar user experience of the CalendarLook and CalendarInfo components exposed by the Gantt chart.

We summarize a few of the major features in WinGanttView:

Manage Tasks

Tasks are a central concept to your project's work breakdown structure.

Multiple Timescales

Because of the versatility of the timeline view, you can display Gantt charts whose time intervals are measured in nearly any TimeSpan from minutes to months and more.

Constraints

WinGanttView™ supports placing constraints (rules) on tasks similar to Microsoft Project, such as dependencies or as soon/as late as possible.

 
Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon - NEW!

With the Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft introduced a new ribbon style in the scenic ribbon that with NetAdvantage Windows Forms 2010 Volume 1 you can now add to your own Windows Forms applications even if running outside of Windows 7.By using our WinToolbarsManager™ component, you can apply this new look and feel by setting its Style property to ScenicRibbon.

Application Menu

In a scenic ribbon, the application menu button appears as a tab in the ribbon's tab area. It has left and right tool areas by default.

Additional Ribbon Amenities

With the Windows 7 scenic ribbon you also receive the many tool types and all familiar ribbon amenities you have in an Office 2007 ribbon, including:

    * Tabs and Groups – Tabs categorize a ribbon of related features, while groups let you organize related functions together within expandable layout panels of the ribbon window.
    * Galleries – Help your users choose from related options by presenting them with pictoral thumbnails within a scrollable gallery.
    * Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) – With a quick access toolbar that users can add and remove tools from, you can have the most commonly used tools always at your users' fingertips.
    * Contextual Tabs – Contextual tabs can display a caption above other tabs and groups to highlight functions particular to a context-specific task.

WinSplitter - NEW!

You can use the new WinSplitter control to resize docked controls at run-time so that your users can easily resize, restore and collapse the areas in the user interface.

WinMessageBoxManager™ - NEW!

With the new WinMessageBoxManager component you can display application-specific and informational content using a modal dialog box with full styling and customization options.

WinActivityIndicator™ - NEW!

Our new WinActivityIndicator control as part of WinExtras™ gives you a means of informing users about time-consuming background processes.

Marquee Animation

This animation can either continuously run from one side to the other in the same direction (the default), or you can have it bounce back and forth from side-to-side.

OS Theme Aware

WinActivityIndicator does let you style its appearance and animated marquee using different colors and gradients through Appearance objects or the Application Styling Framework. 
 
WinCombo™ and WinComboEditor™ - Enhanced

The AutoSuggestFilterMode property now provides you with the option to choose between StartsWith or Contains conditions.

WinFormattedTextEditor™ - Enhanced

We have included numerous performance enhancements to the rich formatted text editor for Windows Forms that makes it perform about 1200% faster under the most -often used feature settings.

.NET 4 Client Profile Support

Now you can build your NetAdvantage® Windows Forms-powered applications using the recommended .NET 4 Client Profile build target in Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010.