Create an MDI Window List The MDIWindowList tool is a list tool to document all open MDI forms in the application and when you select one form from the list it will bring that form to the forefront and give it focus. It also gives you options to close all the windows, tile horizontally, vertically, minimize all wi...
Create and Add Tools at Run Time Tools can be created, configured and added to toolbars and menus either at design time or at run time. Once an instance of a new tool is created, it needs to be added to the Tools collection of the WinToolbarsManager™ component. To add the tools to a toolbar, the Index or Key of th...
Create Groups of Mutually-Exclusive StateButtons A group of state buttons can be specified to be mutually exclusive by creating an OptionSet . Within the OptionSet, only one StateButton tool can be checked at a time. The OptionSet has an AllowAllUp property which determines whether one StateButton tool in the grou...
Creating a Gallery of Styles Before You Begin The purpose of the PopupGalleryTool is to showcase a collection of visual items that the end user can quickly view and select from. The PopupGalleryTool displays a preview and a drop-down box over the preview. The preview only shows a few GalleryToolItems at a time, bu...
Creating a MiniToolbar {Warning} Before You Begin The MiniToolbar resembles a standard toolbar in several ways. You can even design the MiniToolbar in a Designer just like standard toolbars. Granted, the MiniToolbar Designer is slightly different than the standard toolbar designer, but that is because the MiniTool...
Creating a Ribbon {Warning} Before You Begin Developers already familiar with WinToolbarsManager’s™ object model will discover that the Ribbon isn’t all that different. WinToolbarsManager has a collection of Tools inside a collection of Toolbars . The Ribbon adds just one level to that structure. The Ribbon has a ...
Creating a Tab Based on a Context {Warning} Before You Begin Special situations arise that may not be the default situation or even close to it. The Ribbon’s contextual tab takes these situations into account by giving you the option to display specific Ribbon tabs only if certain requirements are met first. A pos...
Creating a TaskPane Toolbar Dynamically (Part 1 of 2) This topic will be looking at how to create the UltraTaskPaneToolbar dynamically. Starting in Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2005 Volume 1 a new toolbar type, based off of the Microsoft Office task pane style, was introduced called the UltraTaskPaneToolbar . The...
Creating a TaskPane Toolbar (Part 1 of 3) This topic is designed to show you how to create the UltraTaskPaneToolbar using the built in designers of the WinToolbarsManager™. Starting in Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2005 Volume 1 a new toolbar type, based off of the Microsoft Office task pane style, was introduced ...
Creating an Internet Browsing History Before You Begin Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 comes with a brand new user interface that is familiar, yet provides usability improvements, making it much easier to use than previous versions. One of these improvements is the navigation bar, including a Back button, Forward ...