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	BinaryPanelBar^© .NET :- A MS Outlook^© 2003/2007 style "Navigation bar" control

	BinaryPanelBar .NET will instantly enable your .NET Windows Forms applications with the popular MS Outlook^© 2003/2007 style Navigation bar. Using the extensive designer support and in-place editing of objects, you can now display this brilliant navigation / shortcut bar to your application users. Out-of-the-box support for Outlook 2007 style Collapsing/expanding of the Navigation bar, and being able to display selected navigation header area in a floating window while keeping the control in collapsed state. Simply drag-and-drop the control instance into your form's design surface, and with a couple of "mouse clicks" to set up its properties, adding headers/footers, and hosting your desired UI controls in it, the control is instantly ready to do its "magic"! You won't need to write a single line of code to get this control setup and start working for you. BinaryPanelBar .NET has been developed completely from scratch, implementing custom painting functionality to provide extended GUI effects! Version 2.2.109 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: MS Outlook ^©2007 "Navigation bar" styled appearance, with expand / collapse features :
		The control emulates the MS Outlook^© 2007 style Navigation bar expand / collapse feature set. By setting simple properties, the control can give you the feature of Outlook 2007 style collapsing/expanding of the Navigation bar, and also being able to display selected navigation header area in a floating window while keeping the control in collapsed state. You can keep the control in its collapsed mode, and simply click on the panel container area to open a floating window containing the selected button's panel header content, without having to fully expand / open the navigation control, thereby saving you space on the the screen real estate.
	MS Outlook ^©2003/2007 "Navigation bar" styled appearance, functionality and "more" :
		The control emulates the MS Outlook^© 2003/2007 style Navigation bar. BinaryPanelBar .NET provides all the "goodies" of the look-and-feel of MS Outlook 2003/2007 Navigation bar, 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 BinaryPanelBar .NET.
	Powerful design time support, with extended items in the designeraction list:
		The control comes with strong design-time support. For enabling easy setup of all crucial and important properties, the control implements custom code to support displaying these properties via the design-time smart tags UI - i.e. the designer actions list pop-up.
	Rich design-time editing experience, and extensive properties support :
		The control comes with rich design-time support, making it absolutely easy to work with it. The design-time features supports full "in-place" editing. There are no "collection editors" to worry about. Almost everything that you can do with the control at run-time, can be done in the design-time in VS .NET/VS 2005 IDE. This includes ability to add, select and remove panelbar button mouse-hover/mouse-move drawing effects working with the control's gripper, and the ability to minimise the panel buttons into the panel bar base surface working with the (chevron) drop-down context menu adding / removing buttons from the controls's list of "available" buttons by checking-them-off from the context menu and many more features! All that, without ever having to leave your Visual Studio 2005 Form design surface. Just drag-and-drop the control instance, and a couple of mouse clicks! There you go... the control is all set to bring-in the Outlook 2003/2007 style navigation bar expereince for your application users!
	Extensive UI customisation of control's elements!
		Support for setting custom fonts and colors for various aspects of the control's drawing, including "cool" aspects like the ability to set the color / custom image to use for drawing the chevron button, colors for the border around the panel bar buttons, and much more. To the left hand side, you can see in the screenshot that you are even able to setup the color for drawing the chevron button. In fact, you can even set up your own custom image that the control will use to draw the chevron button. Easy to use helper methods to enable adding / removing / enabling / disabling panelbar button items in the control, apart from being able to do these visually at the design-time.
	Easy configuration of Header/sub-header and the Context menu in BinaryPanelBar .NET :
		An out-of-the-box Header control is provided to support professional header/sub-header areas to separate areas of user interface (within the BinaryPanelBar control), giving you the look-and-feel of the MS Outlook Side-bar control's sub-header rendering.
		The control also ships with our BinaryMenuItem .NET component built-in this control, to support MS Office "style" menu rendering, for use in the control's context menu system.
	MS Office^© 2007 styled "glass" theme rendering :
		The controls support two different rendering themes, viz., The MS Outlook 2003 style rendering, and The new Glass style (introduced in MS Office 2007) rendering. In the screenshot to the left hand side, you can see the BinaryPanelBar .NET control emulating the glass style rendering mode. You can switch between these two rendering modes (in both design-time and at run-time), by setting one simple property in the control.
		You can also see in the screenshot (to the left hand side), that the context menu also renders the glass style mode, so as to be in sync with the rest of the UI elements of the control.
	Customisation of chevron menuitem's selection background color
		The control now supports customising the chevron menuitem's selection background color, and also to set the border color for the chevron menuitem's available button image.
	Windows XP^© styled, out-of-the-box theme rendering :
		The control comes with out-of-the-box support for emulating/rendering the control in all the three popular XP themes, irrespective of the Operating system in which the control is run.
	Menu selection rendering in sync with control's rendering style
		The control now is in sync with control's rendering style. The menu item selection rendering is now drawn using Office2007 style only when the control's rendering style is set to Office2007 style, otherwise it is drawn using the default style - i.e. office 2003/Visual studio 2005 style (with the alpha blended color).
	Custom theme rendering :
		Apart from being able to emulate the Windows XP^© theme colors, the control also supports rendering custom themes as well, thereby allowing you to set theme rendering custom colors of your choice. See (in the left hand side) the screenshot of a sample custom theme rendering in action.
	Support for rich "events" :
		The control raises several events (in response to various UI interactions with the control, by your application users), thereby enriching your applications. These include, events reflecting core property changes (both, before and after change) in the panel bar buttons / associated panels, and the control itself. Most of these events come with a facility to let you cancel or ignore the event actions.
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