December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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2.1 Getting “That WinXP Look” with XP Common Controls
How often have you tried to make your applications look like products from Microsoft, responding to customers’ wishes that they resemble Outlook, Word, or some other Microsoft application? Achieving that look can be difficult, though, because development products from Microsoft don’t traditionally include components that let developers create applications with “that WinXP look.”
You can solve this problem by using XP Common Controls (XPCC). XPCC provides controls that correspond to the definitions of Microsoft’s Windows XP Visual Guidelines (XPTaskBox, XPLetterBox, etc.), plus some controls that were incomplete in or absent from those guidelines (such as a grouped listbox and balloon tips).
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Tool | XP Common Controls |
Version covered | Version 3.0 (for .NET 2.0) |
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Power Tools page | |
Summary | A collection of free Windows XP UI controls |
License type | Freeware |
Online resources | Forum |
Supported Frameworks | .NET 1.1, 2.0, Mono (see note in “Getting Started,” next) |
Related tools in this book | Krypton Toolkit, DockPanel Suite |
Getting Started
XPCC requires version 1.1 or 2.0 of the .NET Framework, although it should also work if you’re developing with the Mono Framework as long as you don’t use any API-enhanced controls (discussed in the next section). Using Visual ...
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