As I start to work with some of the other controls I am seeing some places where some features might be nice. Right off the bat I have a few suggestions for the RadPanel

1. Gradient Colors
2. Vista Areo/Glass colors
3. Rounded corners
4. Drop Shadow

A sub panel of this could also be a CaptionBarPanel

- same as the above suggestions but with a CaptionBar at the top of the panel. Options for the CaptionBar suggestions

1. Vista/Glass color option
2. Image / Icon support

just a couple of ideas to while away the morning with :)

Steven Hodson
WinExtra / Hodson Report
http://www.winextra.com
http://www.hodsonreport.com

Thank you for the nice proposals, Steven. These feature are really going to be nice additions to the functionality of RadPanel. All of them have been added on our TO DO list for the next major release of RadControls for WinForms.

It would be greatly appreciated if you continue sharing your marvelous ideas and giving us feedback about
our controls. Your points have been updated :)


Best wishes,
Ray
the Telerik team

No worries there :) I'll keep sharing them.

Two additional suggestions I have are for the panel

1. a positional alpha faded background image i.e.: TopLeft, TopRight, BottomLeft, BottomRight

My second suggestion has to to with the TextBox. The one thing I have never understood about the VB and C# is why unlike Visual FoxPro the TextBox doesn't have a caption setting. Instead we have to use a Label and the TextBox to accomplish the same thing.

Steven Hodson
WinExtra / Hodson Report
http://www.winextra.com
http://www.hodsonreport.com

Hello Steven,

Thank you for the new suggestions. Your interesting proposals will help us improve our products to best fit your needs.

Please let us know whether these suggestions are vital for your applications. At present it is added as a feature request in our tracking system.

We will also appreciate the community feedback so that  we can evaluate the priority of these features.


Regards,
Ray
the Telerik team