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	BinaryAlertPopup^© .NET :- A MS Outlook^© and MSN^© styled "Desktop alert popup" .NET component
		BinaryAlertPopup .NET component will instantly enable your Windows Forms .NET applications with the popular MSN Instant Messenger and MS Outlook style popup alerts functionality. Just with one line of code, display "alert" popup windows to your application users. The component has been developed completely from scratch, implementing custom painting functionality to provide extended GUI effects! Latest production build: version 2.1.258
	Product available for purchase as part of our product UIControlSuite .NET package For more details on pricing, please visit our product pricing page.	What do you get: Highly customisable component - exposes various properties to fully customise various display aspects Comprehensive MSDN style documentation No run-time royalties! All you need to buy - is just one license per developer! Technical support and cost-free version upgrades for the initial twelve (12) months
	System requirements: Minimum requirements:- Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 or higher Supported platforms:- Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista Development environments supported:- Visual Studio 2005 or higher
	Feature highlights: A MS Outlook^© and MSN^© styled "Desktop alert popup" and rendering interfaces :
		The component emulates the MS Outlook^© and MSN^© styled "Desktop alert popup functionality". BinaryAlertPopup .NET provides all the "goodies" of the look-and-feel of MS Outlook / MSN Alertpopup window, and additionally provides much more rich UI features via its properties that can let you customise the visual aspects of the various UI elements that makes BinaryAlertPopup .NET. The popup windows displayed by the component are completely non-intrusive in nature (i.e. the main application window will not lose "focus" when displaying popup windows).
	Theme rendering :
		The component comes with out-of-the-box support for emulating/rendering in all the three popular XP themes, irrespective of the Operating system in which the component is run. The component also comes with custom theme rendering capability, where the developer can setup the background color of choice, with either solid or gradient colors, so as to let the component render the window in a custom themed manner. When using gradient drawing, the developer can also specify gradient drawing orientation.
	Host custom controls :
		The component lets you add custom controls into its drawing surface, so that you can present a fully Windows Forms style interface to your application users. Take complete ownership of the drawing surface from the component, and then just like you would add custom controls to a typical Windows Form object, you can add any custom controls and postion them in the alert popup window by simply setting up your custom controls's properties, and adding them to the controls collection of the alert popup component. Please refer to the sample screenshot (to the left) of a customised alert popup window, hosting several Windows Forms controls as its child objects.
	Extensive UI customisation of component's UI elements and features :
		The component comes with extensive UI customisation capability of its elements, and features: Using the component's simple properties, you can set the color and font of your choice for displaying the popup's message text, title and also be able to specify a color for the popup message text selection rectangle Supports customisable font and colors settings for the popup's message text, title text and the UI aspects of the dropdown chevron menu button (i.e. its rectangle border color, fill color (both gradient and single/solid color properties)) Several overloaded methods are built-in, to make the component's display usage absolutely flexible
		Supports user configurable playing of sounds, when the alert popup is displayed Support for using user defined icons for displaying the popup window exit button and title icon
		Variety of popup window "hiding" styles supported, including, Vanishing, SlidingDown and a mix of both these styles Supports finer control over background drawing, by enabling: user configurable background colors (solid as well as gradient drawing colors) customisable gradient drawing orientation - supports vertical, horizontal, or at any desired angle
		User configurable "timeout" settings for popup display and hiding states
		Supports setting custom display location for the popup Apart from being able to set the display location in the code, a custom location to display the alert popup window can be set up, at run-time, by your users who will be able to drag-and-drop the popup window to a location of their choice.
	Supports drawing the alert window using custom images :
		You can now set your own custom images that the component can use as its background image. This feature gives you enormous flexibility to display your own custom images in the alert popup window. This way, you can fill in any relevant message/content of your desire/need, without having to do your own custom painting of the window (which is also possible via a simple property setting). Simply create an image of your choice, and ask the component to display that image as the popup window! This feature comes with a set of rich events & properties to give you more control over what your user can do when the component is rendered using your own custom image as the alert popup window. In the screenshot (to the left hand side), the user has set a custom image, and the component is using that image to draw its content while displaying the alert popup window.
	Displaying custom context menu :
		The component will display a drop-down chevron button along-side the exit button, when you set a valid context menu object to the component. Once set, the user can click on the drop-down chevron button which will display a context menu and accordingly the user can perform actions based on the set custom context menu. Also, an event is raised to give you an opportunity to cancel the context menu display (just when it is about to pop-up)!
	Owner drawing of the alert popup window :
		The component lets you to perform owner drawing of the alert popup window completely! By setting a simple property, you will be able to take control of the alert popup window's graphics surface and perform your own custom painting, making the component absolutely extensible and flexible to customise to your specific needs. The screenshot to the left hand side shows a owner-drawn alert window!
	Custom alignment of title image :
		The component supports multiple alignment states for the title image. You could set the title image and position it using the image alignment property, with the alignment / positioning state of your choice. Also the title image can now be stretched and drawn across the component's complete surface.
	Body text/ title text positioning :
		The component supports properties to let you have absolute control as to where to position the component's body text and title text items.
	Support for rich "events" :
		The component raises several events that can be subscribed to. For example, there are events raised when the alert popup's body text or title is clicked when the exit button is clicked when the alert popup is about to be shown when the popup is about to play a sound and many more Most of these events come with a facility to let you cancel the event actions.
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