Posted at 7:21PM on December 20th, 2007 by Bob Schwarz

FileView.Net Control 9.0 brings a drop-in Windows Explorer-like listview UI to your application.

It provides a familiar yet powerful file/folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to.

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Posted at 2:45PM on September 7th, 2007 by Bob Schwarz

VisualHint, a company specializing in the creation of elaborated and usable custom controls from scratch, is pleased to announce the release of its second product: Smart FieldPackEditor.Net 1.0. After addressing Microsoft PropertyGrids shortcomings, it is DateTimePickers turn to receive a facelift.

The Windows Forms DateTimePicker is one of the most criticized within the developers community. It offers no flexible rendering, no support for a null/DBNull value, poor API (e.g. there is no way to select a field or open/close the dropdown month calendar), no custom fields, and more.
Well, Smart FieldPackEditor.Net is finally the solution you have been looking for. It indeed offers a solid framework to develop any rule-based fields editor and one of its first derived class is the DateTimePicker.

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Posted at 1:54PM on June 2nd, 2007 by Bob Schwarz

Shell MegaPack.Net 9.0 recreates the entire Windows Explorer file/folder browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds.

It provides a familiar yet powerful file/folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to. Consisting of a folder tree control, a file/folder list control and a drive-selection control, it mimics every Windows Explorer UI feature including Thumbnail/Details/Group Views, dragdrop, icons, context menus, virtual items, infotips and renaming. Its powerful behavior control and customization functionality takes it miles ahead of Windows Explorer by adding features like item filtering, item checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and customization of context menus, dragdrop, appearance, display names, icons, overlay icons and infotips.

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Posted at 7:20AM on December 15th, 2006 by Bob Schwarz

FileView.Net Control 8.0 brings a drop-in Windows Explorer-like listview UI to your application.

It provides a familiar yet powerful file/folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to.

It offers complete support for Thumbnail, Details and GroupView, AutoUpdate, dragdrop, icons, contextmenus, non-filesystem items, default key-handling, infotips and renaming.

It features powerful behavior control and customization functionality that takes it miles ahead of Windows Explorer by adding features like filtering, checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and dragdrop control and customization of default contextmenus, displaynames, icons and infotips.

When combined with FolderView and ShComboBox controls, it recreates the entire Windows Explorer UI in your app. FileView.Net is written in 100% managed code for speed and efficiency and completely supports a variety of IDEs and tools including Visual Studio 2005/.Net 2.0. FileView.Net has a royalty-free redistribution license; it has no external dependencies which allows ease of redistribution and it comes with comprehensive documentation and numerous samples to quickly get you started.

For Product Information, visit,
http://www.ssware.com/fileview/fileview.htm

Posted at 5:46AM on November 21st, 2006 by Bob Schwarz

Sky Software is pleased to announce the release of FolderView.Net 8.0 Control which brings drop-in Windows-Explorer-like folder browsing UI functionality to your applications

It provides a familiar yet powerful folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to.

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Posted at 11:49AM on October 30th, 2006 by Bob Schwarz

Shell MegaPack.Net 8.0 recreates the entire Windows Explorer shell browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds.

It provides a familiar yet powerful file/folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to. Consisting of a folder tree control, a file/folder list control and a drive-selection control, it mimics every Windows Explorer UI feature including Thumbnail/Details/Group Views, dragdrop, icons, context menus, virtual items, infotips and renaming.

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