Designer Support
Navigation has designer support for both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend.
This enhanced functionality makes it much easier to quickly create your controls.
General Notes
All public properties on classes used in this product are categorized and have descriptions
assigned to them that help you out in the Properties windows for both Visual Studio and Blend.
Visual Studio 2008 Designer Interaction
Context Menus
Context menus for the various Navigation controls are provided.
You can right click on the control in the designer to display the context menu.
Task Panes
Whenever you select a Navigation control in the designer, a task pane adorner appears in the upper right area of the control.
By clicking the adorner, a task pane popup appears, providing quick access for configuring options.
The task pane for the NavigationBar control in the Visual Studio 2008 designer
Task panes make it extremely simple to do things such as select images for navigation panes.
Our image picker visually enumerates all the images in your project and with a couple clicks it inserts the proper
URI to access the image.
The task pane for the NavigationPane control in the Visual Studio 2008 designer
Toolbox Icons
This product's installer automatically adds appropriate control icons into the Visual Studio 2008 toolbox
under a toolbox group for the product.
Item Templates
VS 2008 item templates are included that instantly create a new Window containing the Navigation controls.
There is no faster way to get started with this product.
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