WinForms PageView Control, Windows Forms Paging Component, Multiple Tabs

Overview

Wondering how to organize endless content in neatly displayed information? The Telerik PageView for WinForms is your answer. You can create slick-looking tabstrip/panelbar through the countless RadPageView configurations; create vertical, hierarchical or overlapping tabs, mimic Outlook’s NavPane, insert images in your items, add templates, etc. Thanks to its extended architecture, RadPageView guarantees excellent performance behavior when having lots of page views.

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Features

Architecture

RadPageView provides a set of views for presenting a collection of pages. Each page is a stand-alone panel where controls may be added through Visual Studio’s Designer. As such, RadPageView consists of pages and items where each item is associated with a page and it can be used to display that page. A specific layout strategy arranges the pages and the items so that the final look-and-feel is achieved:

This simple architectural approach is based on a very flexible and extensible platform that is fully compatible with the Telerik Presentation Framework. It allows for implementing different layout scenarios (tabstrip, panelbar, navpane, etc) quicker than ever before and is greatly optimized for memory consumption, user interaction times, and unbeatable performance with many pages.

This architecture also provides for extensibility, scalability and ease of use. With the semantic that lies behind RadPageView, it is very easy to create custom views over a collection of pages.

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PageView Modes

You can nest any RadControl and custom element within Telerik PageView. This feature gives you enormous flexibility in building paging navigation into applications and allows you to create complex custom user interfaces featuring text boxes, combo boxes, or other custom elements within the page area. If you nest another PageView, you get hierarchal appearance.

RadPageView supports three different navigation modes, which can be switched between through a single property, but each implements a different layout strategy, making it unique in its presentation: OutlookView, which resembles Outlook’s NavPane; StripView which is essentially a TabStrip; and StackView which is a ListBar.

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OutlookView Mode (PanelBar’s OutlookNavPane)

OutlookView mode offers a professional and flexible Outlook 2007©-style navigation menu where items are stacked vertically and their content is displayed on top of the stack. An overflow strip lies below the items, which displays the collapsed items and provides an overflow drop-down menu from which the user can modify the item's visibility:

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StripView Mode (TabStrip)
The StripView mode of RadPageView supplies the basis for building tabbed interfaces with rich formatting and behavior. The StripView encapsulates the TabControl view, which supplies the basis for building tabbed interfaces with rich formatting and behavior. It offers a myriad of settings which allow for deep customization of the items’ strip and content area, such as:
- Strip alignment/position (Top, Right, Bottom and Left) and Text orientation (Horizontal and Vertical)
- Animated drag and drop support with visual pointers, allowing for tab reordering:
- Extended automatic scrolling and overflow support, if there are more tabs than can be displayed on the estate. Use the arrow buttons for left and right navigation, or navigate to the needed tab by using the ItemList overflow menu which lists all available tabs:
- Dedicated close button for each tab/page, which allows for closing of the currently selected page. The close button can be positioned in the tab itself, or with the rest of the navigation buttons.
- Dedicated Create New Tab functionality, in case you want to allow your users to create new tabs dynamically.
- Hierarchical strips to easily build a multilevel tabstrip by defining the structure in design-time.
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StackView Mode (PanelBar’s ListBar)

The StackView mode resembles the PanelBar’s base view, but extends the default functionality with fully customizable header and footer, giving you extra flexibility in the presentation. The Items in StackView mode are organized in a stack (either vertical or horizontal) and the content area/page is either centered or aligned at the top/bottom within each stack, depending on the orientation. The StackView supports two selection modes: Standard, where the selected item is simply highlighted, and the page positioned at the top/bottom is updated; and ContentWithSelected, where the page shows up next to the item itself:

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Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support
Telerik Windows Forms PageView provides rich design-time support functionality making customizations and configurations very easy. Some of the key capabilities are:
- Set the PageView view mode and adjust the properties of the specific view from the smart tag;
- Add/remove pages;
- Drag and drop of items within pages;
- Applying themes in design time and easily switching between them - the Choose Theme command in the Smart tag automatically detects the present themes;
- Visual Style Builder, Element Hierarchy Editor, and Shape Editor Productivity tools for full control over the UI.
- Easy to use, rich event model provides for endless customization capabilities in case you want more control over RadPageView’s behavior.
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Appearance

The control is shipped with a rich set of pixel-perfect themes that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of Windows Vista, Office 2007, Outlook, etc. The themes can be easily switched using a single property.You can tweak existing themes or build a new theme from scratch to fit your exact visual demands by using the Visual Style Builder productivity tool. A well-thought light element tree allows for easy and intuitive styling.

Telerik TabStrip is also capable of displaying images, text, multiline text, and rich text by using standard HTML tags, such as <i>, <b>, and <u>.

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Keyboard Support

Telerik Windows Forms PageView delivers convenience with integrated keyboard support. Once the tab gets into focus, you can use the arrow keys or the Tab/Shift+Tab keys to navigate through the tabs.

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Localization Support

Telerik PageView provides full Localization support and support for Right-to-left languages for its Outlook View and Stack View (Strip View RTL support will be added soon). See Localization and Right-to-Left Support for the full list of Telerik WinForms controls supporting Localization and RTL languages.
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