Desktop: WinForms

How it started One of the major disadvantages of the old docking framework was the unintuitive layout mechanism. Operations like resize, re-dock transitions, dock position change were re-setting entire layout scene and all user-defined sizes were lost. Having recognized this drawback and knowing that a prerequisite for a good docking framework is a fine-grained layout system, we put solid efforts in designing and implementing a completely new flexible and powerful, yet simple to understand and easy to use, layout mechanism. Brief Model Overview The design...

Among all other new stuff that we introduced in the Q2 2009 release were also the revised RadForm and RadRibbonForm controls. Base on an entirely new approach, these two controls have been rewritten from scratch and expanded to support many features that the old versions did not provide. Moreover, we have been striving to address all performance and painting issues which were a major problem in the old versions and now we are proud to present what we have been doing the last months.   It turned out that customizing a standard Windows Form is not an easy task and once a...

The long established traditions of the MDI interface makes menu merge indispensable for any WinForms Controls library. The MDI user interface is well known across the users and perhaps the most famous application that employed it for more than a decade is Microsoft Office (up to version 2003). Even though the new Ribbon Bar look snazzier to me, I am sure that the folks that are using Menus in MDI forms will appreciate this new feature.   Our MDI implementation covers two things – RadForm and RadMenu. Both are really independent and for this reason you can mix RadForms and standard forms as well...

As a company, it has always been our priority to be as transparent and up-front with the work we do for you as possible. This is why we have extended the available RSS feeds for all product lines, including for RadControls for WinForms. This will allow you to get the most recent news directly in your RSS reader, without the need to visit our site. In addition to the already available WinForms Support Feed, which provides you with information on new Code Library projects and new Knowledge Base articles on RadControls for WinForms, we add the following feeds on new help articles, new...

We just finished working on the Q2 2009 release of RadControls for WinForms. One of the best things about releases is that we get to show off the cool new stuff that we managed to get done. One of my favorite features is the full support for binding to custom fields in RadScheduler. Yes, this means that you finally can have RadScheduler bound to that email field in your data source. And do you know what’s the best part? It’s fairly easy: 1. If you have not already done this, add your custom field to your data source. 2. You will need a custom...