The Actipro WPF Shared Library is a common control library referenced by all of our WPF .NET controls. It contains a number of very useful controls and components that can be used in your projects.
The Shared Library is not a product that is sold on its own, but any developer who owns a license for one of our WPF control products is welcome to freely use any of the controls and components within the library.
Features
General Controls
- An AdvancedTextBlock control that can show a tooltip when overflowed and can highlight spans of text based on captured text ranges (i.e., filter match results).
- An AnimatedExpander control, which supports animated expand/collapse with fade in/out.
- An AnimatedProgressBar control, which is an enhanced Aero-like progressbar with smooth value change animations, multiple states, and animated highlights.
- An Avatar control to represent people or objects.
- An AvatarGroup control that renders multiple Avatar controls.
- A Badge control, which can be used to provide contextual information for other elements or can be used stand-alone.
- A Card control to displays visually grouped information for a single subject.
- A CircularProgressBar displays a ranged progress value using fluent animations. It is similar to a native linear
ProgressBar, except that it renders the progress in a ring shape. - A Circular
Thumb control, which is a thumb gripper with a circular shape and arrow adornment. - A CustomDrawElement element, which is an element that raises an event when it is being rendered, allowing for custom drawing.
- A DropShadowChrome decorator, which can be used to render a drop shadow for a popup.
- A HorizontalListBox control, which allows for selection of items that are arranged horizontally with a uniform width.
- An InfoBar control, which can be used to display essential information to a user without disrupting the user flow.
- A PixelSnapper decorator, which helps prevent image and border blurring in WPF.
- A PopupButton control, which provides an implementation of a popup and split button that can display context menu popups or a popup containing any other WPF content.
- A RadialSlider controls, which is a circular slider that can be used to input any scalar value.
- A RadioButtonList control, which is a
ListBoxwhose items render as radio buttons. - A RingSlice control, which renders a portion of a ring at designated angles and radius.
- A RingSpinner control that is a circular busy indicator.
- A ReflectionContentControl control, which is a content wrapper that makes it possible to create dazzling reflection effects in seconds.
- A ResizableContentControl control, which is a content wrapper that contains a gripper for resizing the content horizontally, vertically, or both.
- A ToggleSwitch control, which is a modern alternative to a checkbox that is typically toggled between on/off states and optionally supports an indeterminate state.
- A UserPromptControl control that can be used to build rich user prompts and replace
MessageBoxusage with prompts that match the current theme. - A ZeroSizeContentControl control, which is a content wrapper that can provide a zero-width or height during its measuring pass.
Color Selection Features
- Spectrum
Color - A color hue spectrum-based color picker that can display initial and selected colors.Picker - Spectrum
Slice - Displays a slice of saturation/brightness colors for a particular hue. - Spectrum
Slider - Displays a hue spectrum. - Color
Component - A slider capable of displaying and altering a single component (ARGB) of a color.Slider - Gradient
Brush - A slider capable of altering the stops of a linear or radial brush.Slider
Data
- Multiple value converters classes for doing everything from conditional (if...else) results to string formatting.
- Data validation helpers.
Document Management
- Multiple classes for maintaining document references and tracking/persisting recently used documents.
Media
- A UIColor structure that provides an enhanced representation of a
Colorobject that supports the RGB, HSB, and HLS color models, conversion between models, and numerous other color helper methods. - A Visual
Tree class that provides several helper methods for working with visual trees that are not found in the VisualTreeHelper class.Helper Extended
Media Animation (Transitions)
- Barn door wipe - A wipe transition between two pages that uses two straight bars with a configurable gradient spread.
- Bar wipe - A wipe transition between two pages that uses a straight bar with a configurable gradient spread.
- Box wipe - A wipe transition between two pages that uses a box.
- Fade - The old selected page fades into the new one with optional blur effect.
- Faded zoom - A crossfade transition between two elements that zooms the new content in as well.
- Four box wipe - A wipe transition between two pages that uses four boxes.
- Slide - A slide transition between two pages that moves one page over the other.
- Push - A slide transition between two pages that pushes one page out of the way for the other.
- Wedge wipe - A wipe transition between two pages that uses a wedge shape.
Serialization
- A helper class for serializing objects to and deserializing directly from XAML.
- A framework for easily serializing a hierarchy of objects to XML, and later restoring it.
Shapes
- Semi-ellipse, triangle, wave, and zig-zag shape classes.
This product is written in 100% pure C#, and includes detailed documentation and samples.