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Want to spice up your app? Get Visual Extender!

Written by PureComponents | 04 June 2010

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VisualExtender is a special component, which can extend the functionality of other components about new visual functions. How does it work? You insert VisualExtender into Form and all components, which occur in Form, are extended about new properties, including Form. VisualExtender uses for this function Extender Provider from .NET Framework.

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LightGrid: The better alternative to DataGridView

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Written by PureComponents | 28 May 2010

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With the PureComponents LightGrid (DataGridView) control, you can display and edit tabular data from many different kinds of data sources. It supports styles for all the parts including columns, rows and individual cells. LightGrid (DataGridView) cells can contain images, flags, markers and progress bar. Cells support formatting and can be edited as different data types including date picker for dates and check boxes for boolean values. The component supports sorting and filtering as well.

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EntrySet Components - Appearance and Styles

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Written by PureComponents | 27 May 2010

EntrySet Controls offer the developers easy and effective way how to give to the applications professional look&feel. Every visual component can be adjusted according to your idea by means of several properties, which determine the look. These properties are in Style class.

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GridCalendar Control

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Written by PureComponents | 26 May 2010

Calendar component for displaying larger time intervals with months displayed one below another in a grid.

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GridCalendar provides rich style hierarchy for setting the desired appearance. It allows to define style for each individual part, including Header, Footer, Row and Column Headers. Days have one common style and multiple style options for defining special appearance, such as selected days, holidays, days of week, days with special events etc.

Several predefined styles are available in designer with possibility to be easily turned to different color scheme with the ThemeStyle setting. The Theme Style allows you to update the color scheme of all the styles by simply dragging a slider in a designer.

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ColorList Anatomy

Written by PureComponents | 25 May 2010

The ColorList is .NET WinForms control, which extends the ListBox control. It does almost everything that a ListBox does and also can display a colored box next to items in the list.

The following picture shows the individual parts of the ColorList control.