Announcing DotNetBar Suite CTP Release with Office 12 Like Ribbon Control for Visual Studio.NET

DotNetBar Suite is set of 14 powerful integrated components enabling VS.NET developers to create professional user interfaces with ease. Community Technology Release is intended to provide peek into the future direction of DotNetBar and it includes Office 12 like Ribbon Control.

(PRWEB) October 21, 2005 -- DevComponents LLC announced today release of DotNetBar Suite CTP with Office 12 like Ribbon Control. DotNetBar Suite is a toolbox of 14 powerful integrated components with Office 2003/XP/2000, VS.NET 2005 and Windows XP themed look and feel that enables VS.NET developers to create professional user interface with ease.

DotNetBar Community Technology Preview release includes all new Office 12 like Ribbon Control. Ribbon Control will help developers incorporate latest user interface advances first shown on Microsoft PDC conference last month.

Ribbon Control helps applications with large number of commands present available functionality in an easy to access way. It also removes the need for endless cascading rows of menu and sub menu commands so far used as approach to combat presentation of large number of features in applications.

DevComponents implementation of Ribbon control also includes in house designed Office 2003 like visual style so developers can take advantage of this new control right away. Office 2003 like style fits into the visual color scheme offered by the rest of DotNetBar Suite.

DotNetBar CTP release is fully compatible with the latest Visual Studio.NET 2005 and it is available now at http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/nextgen.html

DotNetBar Suite includes following controls:

- Fully customizable Menus and Toolbars

- Dockable auto-hide windows with Diamond Docking Hints guides and split-view document docking technology

- Tab control with 9 visual styles

- Explorer Bar control

- Side Bar control

- Flat Side Bar control

- Tab Strip control

- Balloon Control

- Alert Control

- Balloon-Tip Control

- Navigation Pane control

- Navigation Bar control

- OneNote style Tab Control

- Multi-Functional Panel Control

- Expandable splitter control

- Ribbon control

- Ribbon Bar control

For more information and fully functional trial version please visit our web site at: http://www.devcomponents.com

Multiple licenses discounts and source code available.

We also provide movie tutorials for many DotNetBar components to help developers jump start their usage of DotNetBar. Please see http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/movies.html for more details.

DevComponents LLC is a developer of professional frameworks and components. Our award winning components and tools are benefiting large corporations, consultants and ISV's all around the world as a cost effective solution for building great applications. Our mission is to provide innovative frameworks and components that help developers build the best applications that today's competitive market place demands.

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