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	BinaryMenuItem^© .NET - An Extended "Owner-drawn", feature-rich, highly customisable "MenuItem" component
		BinaryMenuItem .NET is an advanced Microsoft .NET WinForms^© UI control library, providing a feature-packed extended "Owner drawn" MenuItem component for the Microsoft WinForms^© .NET platform. This component is an extended "Owner-drawn" and ready-to-use, feature-rich MenuItem component. It supports associating images/icon for Menu items and ability to paint menu items with custom colors. BinaryMenuItem .NET extends the .NET framework's MenuItem object, by providing a feature-rich and simple to use collection of properties in order to enable you to display Menus (including ContextMenu) drawn with your chosen colors for various UI aspects like - colors for MenuItem hovering, Menu selection, custom colors for drawing checked menu items and radio button enabled menu items. Additionally, the component also exposes various properties to let you set alpha-blending factors for your various chosen colors, to enable smoothness in those colors. The component is an instant replacement for the standard .NET MenuItem component. With BinaryMenuItem .NET, you can build your own custom menus, and also the Windows XP and Visual Studio style emulating .NET Menus in minutes! Version 2.1.258 released : View release notes
	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:
	Group Header option for menu grouping:
		The component allows you to optionally define a group header for your menu commands as an alternative to the conventional separator menu item. This way you can visually group any related commands in your menu system. The component provides further properties to let you customise the color and style for rendering the group header.
	Group Header "drawing" customisation:
		Further to the group header facility (as described above), the component provides simple to use properties to style the group header rendering. The component provides out-of-the-box styling by way of letting you define the gap between the group header border and its content. To the left hand side, you can see a screenshot of this styling feature in action.
		The component also lets you define the group header border color, backcolor, forecolor and its style, i.e. whether dotted or normal.
	An extended and simple to use MenuItem component :
		In addition to the standard .NET framework's MenuItem functionality, BinaryMenuItem .NET component comes pre-ownerdrawn, ready and simple to use MenuItem component. Since the component comes fully "pre-ownerdrawn", all you need to do is just to set its easy-to-use properties in order to customise your menu rendering! You do not need to owner-draw the MenuItem object any more! Just set simple properties and run your application.
	Image support :
		The component comes with direct support for associating icons with menu items, including being able to draw a separate image-holder side bar in each menu item, thereby emulating the VisualStudio style menu rendering.
	Ability to fully support Menu painting with custom colors (with Alpha-blending support) and direct support for dynamic property changes:
		By setting simple properties, you can set custom colors for menu background, item selection, hovering, and painting the checkmark and radio buttons. The component also comes with built-in support for handling dynamic property changes (for example, your changes to MenuItem colors at runtime) with ease. This feature lets you change the menuitem colors and its alpha-blend factors at run-time.
	Emulating XP theme :
		The component gives you an out-of-the-box support for rendering menus, emulating Windows XP^© theme, irrespective of the current Windows^© Operating system.
	MS Office 2007 style ("glass" style) rendering :
		The component gives you an out-of-the-box support for rendering menus, emulating MS Office 2007^© style (glass style) rendering, irrespective of the current Windows Operating system.
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