Add Your Personal Information to a Style Library Since the concept of Application Styling was introduced in 2006 Volume 1, several developers and graphic designers alike have been creating Style Libraries for use in several different scenarios. Several of these Style Libraries have been extremely creative and inve...
Adding an Assembly to a Project Normally, manually adding assembly references to your project is not required, since Visual Studio is able to automatically add the appropriate references to the project as you place Infragistics tools onto the design surface. However, there will be times when you want or need to ma...
API Reference Guide The application programming interface (API) is the foundation for all of our Windows Forms controls and components. The API Reference Guide offers a definitive listing of all the Ultimate UI for Windows Forms classes, enumerations, interfaces, and delegates — organized by Windows Forms assembly...
GDI/GDI+ Text Rendering Property Added In the Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2005 Volume 3 (CLR 2.0) release, if you wanted to render text in GDI+, you had to set the UseGDIPlusTextRenderer to True. Once set to True, all of the controls in your project would render in GDI+. Now, with the new TextRenderingMode prope...
Nine-Slice Scaling Stretching images is a common occurrence in user interface design. Your own Windows desktop does it when your background image is too small and you have the Position set to Stretch. However, what happens when there is a border (acting as a picture frame) on the image? The border is stretched as ...
Appearance Object 2006.1 The Appearance object is an important component in Infragistics Presentation Layer Framework™. It exposes properties that affect the appearance of elements. Explore the new features that were added to the Appearance object in the 2006 Volume 1 release: Nine-Slice Scaling GDI/GDI+ Text Rend...
Appearance Objects Appearance objects expose color properties like BackColor, ForeColor and BorderColor. In addition, there are image-related properties, text trimming and alignment properties as well as properties to support gradients, hatch brushes and alpha blending. These objects can be exposed as properties o...
Application Styling Framework Application Styling is a ground-breaking concept in Windows Forms development that allows developers and graphic designers to collaborate more efficiently. The developer creates the application, while at the same time graphic designers create styles that can be used in that applicatio...
Application Styling 2006.2 Explore the new Application Styling Framework that was added to Ultimate UI for Windows Forms in the 2006 Volume 2 release by clicking the link below. New Application Styling Framework
Application Styling 2006.3 Explore the new enhancements to AppStylist® that were added to Infragistics in the 2006 Volume 3 release by clicking the links below. New Eyedropper New Resource Previews New Used By List Selective Importing