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Actipro UIStudio
Next-generation dockable toolbars, menus, statusbars, dockable windows, tabstrips, and navigationbar controls

Latest Release:
v2.0.0100 on 10/13/2008

Supported Environments:
.NET 1.1 - 3.5
VS.NET 2003 - 2008

Blueprint License:
Source code is available for this product

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Actipro UIStudio NavigationBar - Windows Forms .NET Control Suite

Feature Tour:

Extensible Rendering

Both NavigationBar and NavigationBarPanel use an extensible rendering model that is based on our WinUICore object model. The object model centers around the use of a renderer class. The renderer measures and draws all of the elements within the control. This is a great design because it allows you to use our pre-defined renderers or create your own.

This object model allows for three levels of rendering customization. Choose which level of customization you wish to use:

  1. Use Built-In Renderers As-Is - Use the built-in rendering styles without any changes, which include all Office styles (Black, Blue, Olive, Silver, and Windows Classic).
  2. Modify Properties on Built-In Renderers - Use the built-in renderers but modify the various properties on the renderers to easily create a customized appearance.
  3. Create Custom Renderers - Implement the INavigationBarRenderer interface or inherit our NavigationBarRenderer class to do all the measuring and drawing of the controls and their elements yourself.

Each color scheme can be tinted to a specified color, allowing for an infinite number of theme possibilities.

These are some sample rendering styles that come with NavigationBar:

Office 2007 blue NavigationBar
Custom tinted purple NavigationBar
Blue-themed NavigationBar
Olive green-themed NavigationBar
Silver-themed NavigationBar
Windows Classic-themed NavigationBar