Outlook 2007 Navigation Pane Can Now Be Collapsed In the 2006 Volume 3 release, we gave you the Office 2007 look and feel for a number of our controls. WinExplorerBar™ was one of these controls that received the new look and feel. WinExplorerBar can emulate the Outlook 2007 Navigation Pane if its Style property is...
Replacing WinListBar with WinExplorerBar Though the object models of the WinExplorerBar™ and the WinListbar™ controls are similar they are not the same. For example, Group and Item objects in the WinListbar element are now called UltraExplorerBarGroup and UltraExplorerBarItem . In addition, many properties that we...
WinExplorerBar Resource Strings Reference You can quickly and easily modify any resource string value that is displayed to a user by a control/component. Resource strings include items such as dialog box captions, warning messages, alerts, etc. The following table lists the names of the resource strings that are u...
Save and Restore a Layout You can set up the interface of an WinExplorerBar™ control either at design-time through the property sheet or UltraExplorerBar Designer, or you can do it at run-time by setting various properties through code. When your application runs, the user can further customize the interface by ad...
Select an Appearance Style WinExplorerBar™ can assume a wide variety of appearances, enabling to fit in easily with any style of application, and to be deployed in any environment. You can choose between two scenarios: setting up the element’s appearance at design-time, which will provide a standard look for the a...
Setting the image for an item at run item This topic shows how to add an image to an item in a group at run time. In Visual Basic: In C#:
Show the Navigation Pane Flyout at the Mouse Coordinates on a Right-Click Instead of showing the Navigation Pane flyout immediately beside the collapsed Navigation Pane, you can have it appear wherever you like, perhaps as a context menu displaying on a right-click. All you need to do is invoke the ShowNavigationP...
WinExplorerBar Smart Tag In Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0), each Ultimate UI for Windows Forms control/component is equipped with a Smart Tag. By simply selecting the control/component, a Smart Tag anchor appears. When you click this anchor, a pop-up panel appears, providing you with quick and easy access...
Style the Scrollbars of WinExplorerBar In Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2006 Volume 2, you can style the scrollbars in WinExplorerBar™ as you would with WinScrollBar. We added a ScrollBarLook property to the WinExplorerBar that exposes several of the same objects as the WinScrollBar™ control. By setting the Appear...
Terms and Concepts Element Styles The WinExplorerBar™ control has a Style property that lets the developer choose between three different elements layouts and behaviors. The three available Styles are: ExplorerBar — emulates the look and feel of the ExplorerBar in the Windows XP Explorer. Listbar — emulates the lo...