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Studio for WinForms
The Controls that Changed WinForms

Over 60 .NET controls, including the ones you can't get anywhere else. We've got your back with smart designers, hundreds of samples, and an active community forum. ComponentOne Studio® for WinForms can handle anything, from a grid with a million rows to a chart with unlimited points.
 


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What's Inside?

BarCode
Add barcode images to grid cells, Web pages, or regular .NET PrintDocument objects. Just add the control to your form and set the encoding type.

Chart
Get 80+ types of 2D and 3D charts, designers for code-free development, visual effects, customizable charting elements, and more.

DataExtender
Get additional rich data views in the native ADO.NET datasets. DataExtender simplifies working with ADO.NET.

DataObjects
Complete data and business objects framework that can be used in .NET apps of any range, scalability, and architecture.

DynamicHelp
View Help files in your Windows Forms apps. Provide Help on individual controls, including hyperlinks, images, tables, and more.

Excel
Read and write Microsoft Excel files to your .NET Apps. OpenXml format support allows you to save smaller, compressed XLSX files.

Flash
Present your data in the form of vector graphics and animation. Draw content to a single frame, create animation, or organize a slide show.

FlexGrid
Display, edit, format, organize, summarize, and print tabular data.

Input
Powerful suite of input validation controls. Display dynamic data in a visual format, manage dataset navigation, and much more.

InputPanel
Single control that acts like a complete data-entry form, managing the design, layout, appearance, and behavior of multiple input controls.

List
Get a full-featured list box control and a multi-column drop-down column list box with Microsoft Excel-like splits, incremental searching, in-cell objects, and more.

Menus and Toolbars
Create docking/floating toolbars, multi-level menus, global key shortcuts, collapsible/expandable pages, a window list for MDI applications, and much more.

PDF
Create Adobe PDF documents from your apps. Get security, compression, outlining, hyper-linking, attachments, and more.

Reports
The tools you need to meet your reporting, printing, previewing, and exporting needs.

Ribbon
Make your UI complete with a Ribbon style menu. Get Ribbon and status bar functionality with the same look and feel as the new Microsoft Office 2007 UI.

Scheduler
Add Microsoft Outlook-style scheduling into your apps with drag-and-drop support, built-in visual styles, data views, appointment labels, and more.

Sizer
Create resolution-independent, resizable forms. The powerful grid layout manager extends the basic layout capabilities provided by the .NET Framework.

SpellChecker
.NET product for multi-language spell checking, provides the easiest-to-use and most efficient spell checker available.

SuperTooltip
Add Vista-style ToolTips and labels that can display HTML content to your .NET apps without security concerns.

True DBGrid
Quickly create bound and unbound grid apps with fast data access and data presentation such as splits, grouping, filtering, and customized navigation.

Zip
Quickly compress data, saving disk space and network bandwidth, and easily manipulate and work with compressed data.

 

Studio for WinForms Features

Create Powerful Data Input Applications in Rapid Time
ComponentOne InputPanel for WinForms is the new paradigm to create and maintain data-entry forms. It is a panel that can be placed on a Windows Form to help developers create powerful data input applications. Developers define what input fields they would like to expose using any combination of the nineteen native data input controls provided or any third party .NET control. Or simply connect the InputPanel for WinForms to a data source, select the record set, and an input control for each field is automatically created for you.

Add Context-sensitive Help to Any Form
View Help files in WinForms applications with ComponentOne DynamicHelp for WinForms. The help topic can include hyperlinks, images, tables, and more to provide Help on individual controls. This type of Help system is available in applications such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, and ComponentOne Doc-To-Help.

Drag-and-Drop Scheduling
The powerful scheduling and calendar components included in ComponentOne Schedule for WinForms enable you to build fully functional Microsoft Outlook 2007-style scheduling applications quickly – with virtually no code.

Boost End-user Productivity with True DBGrid
Display hierarchical data or filter and sort data by setting a single property at design time. With ComponentOne True DBGrid for WinForms, developing sophisticated database applications has never been easier.

Create High-performance Grids
The lightweight, flexible nature of ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms makes creating data applications in unbound mode quick and easy. Simply write code to fill the grid with data; there is no need to connect to a data source. FlexGrid for WinForms is so powerful it manages the data itself.

Access Data Faster Than Ever Before
Replace the standard ADO.NET technology with the innovative virtual mode technology supported in ComponentOne DataObjects for .NET, and experience increased performance when using large datasets.

Improve Data Validation with a Full Set of Input Components
Enhance the functionality and appearance of the standard input boxes with ComponentOne Input for WinForms. This rich set of components includes powerful masked editing capabilities, a rich formatting model, and localisation.
  

What's Inside Studio for WinForms?

  • ComponentOne ADO.NET DataExtender - simplifies working with ADO.NET, providing additional rich data views in the native ADO.NET datasets. ADO.NET DataExtender mediates with ADO.NET, automating reading the schema and data from the database, exposing database tables and views as regular ADO.NET objects, and providing an ability to set up customised data views.
  • ComponentOne Menus and Toolbars for WinForms - builds versatile menus and toolbars for your Windows Forms applications. The suite includes 9 navigational and UI controls enabling you to create docking/floating toolbars, multi-level menus, global key shortcuts, collapsible/expandable pages, a window list for MDI applications, and much more.
  • ComponentOne BarCode for WinForms - adds barcode images to grid cells, Web pages, or regular .NET PrintDocument objects. Unlike barcode fonts, BarCode for WinForms automatically adds any necessary control symbols and checksums to the value being encoded to eliminate reader errors. BarCode for WinForms is so easy to use – just add the control to your form, set the encoding type, and you're done! 
  • ComponentOne Reports for WinForms - provides all the tools you need to meet your reporting, printing, previewing, and exporting needs. Quickly and easily add Microsoft-Access style database reporting to your Visual Studio.NET applications using the C1Report component. If you need more than Access-style reporting in your application, use the C1PrintDocument component to create complex hierarchical documents with automatic word index, TOC generation, data binding, and dozens of other time-saving features. Export your reports and documents to various formats (such as PDF, HTML, Excel), print, or preview them using the included Windows Forms controls.
  • ComponentOne Chart for WinForms - generates professional looking 2D and 3D charts. ComponentOne's charting tools completely manage the underlying complexities of a component chart, allowing developers to concentrate on important application-specific tasks. With 80+ types of 2D and 3D charts, flexible and customisable charting elements, intuitive designers for code-free development, enhanced visual effects, end-user interaction, and advanced mouse-tracking capabilities Chart for WinForms gives you the advantage.
  • ComponentOne Ribbon for WinForms - makes your Office 2007-style application interface complete. ComponentOne Ribbon for WinForms delivers both Ribbon and Status Bar functionality, with the same look and feel as the new Microsoft Office 2007 UI. This enables .NET 2.0 developers to build Office 2007-style applications with little code and with great functionality.
  • ComponentOne DataObjects for .NET - is a complete data and business objects framework that can be used in .NET applications of any range, scalability and architecture, from simple desktop applications to classic client-server applications to 3-tier distributed applications and enterprise-wide business object libraries. DataObjects for .NET mediates the complexities of ADO.NET, making data access and data binding in .NET applications simple. DataObjects for .NET includes many powerful features absent in standard ADO.NET including virtual mode technology and the ability to update the database immediately after the user changes a row, and with data libraries, composite multi-table support, and more.
  • ComponentOne Schedule for WinForms - easily integrates completely customised Microsoft Office 2007-style scheduling functionality into your applications. Now you can build intuitive, polished-looking scheduling applications with ease using Schedule for WinForms' built-in visual styles, data views, and appointment labels. With additional options like drag-and-drop support, customisable dialog boxes, and easy localisation, designing a scheduling application to meet the needs of your end-users has never been easier.
  • ComponentOne DynamicHelp for WinForms - views Help files in WinForms applications. Conceptually similar to using ToolTips, DynamicHelp for WinForms also provides Help on individual controls. The main difference is that ToolTips typically contain only a single sentence or paragraph. An actual Help topic, by contrast, typically contains more content, often including hyperlinks, images, tables, and more. This type of Help system is available in applications such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, and ComponentOne Doc-To-Help.
  • ComponentOne Sizer for WinForms - creates resolution-independent, resizable forms. Work with the the C1Sizer container control which has a powerful grid layout manager that extends the basic layout capabilities provided by the .NET Framework (Dock and Anchor properties). Or automatically resize all controls on the form when the form is resized with the C1SizerLight component.
  • ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms - incorporates the latest in data-binding technology and integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft.NET Framework. As a result, you get an easy-to-use, flexible grid control for creating user-friendly interfaces that display, edit, format, organise, summarise, and print tabular data. FlexGrid for WinForms also includes the C1FlexGridClassic control, which derives from FlexGrid for WinForms and provides an object model that is virtually 100% identical to the VSFlexGrid ActiveX control. C1FlexGridClassic was developed to allow easy migration of existing VSFlexGrid projects.
  • ComponentOne SpellChecker for WinForms - is C1's .NET product for multi-language spell checking, that has been re-engineered to provide the easiest-to-use and most efficient spell checker available on the market today. Just drop the C1SpellChecker component and text box control on your Windows Form, set one property, and experience Microsoft Word-like spell checking capable of processing 400,000 words per second!
  • ComponentOne Input for WinForms - is a suite of commonly used components that enhance the functionality and appearance of the standard controls. Providing you with powerful masked editing capabilities, a rich formatting model, and localisation, Input for WinForms enables you to supercharge your applications with increased performance and style. Display dynamic data in a visual format, manage dataset navigation, and much more.
  • ComponentOne SuperTooltip for WinForms - allows you to create visually rich WinForms applications with Vista-style ToolTips and labels that can display HTML content. SuperTooltip for WinForms loads and displays HTML content much faster than its standard counterparts and without the security concerns often associated with the WebBrowser control since it doesn't depend on Internet Explorer.
  • ComponentOne InputPanel for WinForms - is a single control that acts like a complete data-entry form. It manages the design, layout, appearance, and behavior of multiple input components. Supported components include textboxes, numeric and masked input boxes, combo boxes, rich labels, custom controls, and more.
  • ComponentOne True DBGrid for WinForms - creates bound and unbound grid applications quickly. The robust, easy-to-use .NET grid controls feature fast data access and data presentation such as splits, grouping, filtering, and customised navigation. Furthermore, with the built-in 2007 Microsoft Office system themes you can apply an entire application theme by just setting one property.
  • ComponentOne List for WinForms - allows end-users to browse, edit, add, and delete data in a tabular format. List for WinForms consists of a full-featured list box control (C1List) and a multicolumn drop-down column list box (C1Combo). Microsoft Excel-like splits, incremental searching, in-cell objects, and Office 2007 visual styles are just a few of the many features included in List for WinForms. Let List for WinForms manage the database interface, while you to concentrate on important application-specific tasks.
  • ComponentOne Excel for .NET - makes your Excel data just a simple command away from any of your .NET applications – you don't even need to have Microsoft Excel installed! Create or load XLS files for Excel 97 and later. Excel for .NET supports the new Microsoft Office 2007 OpenXml format, which allows you to save smaller, compressed XLSX files.
  • ComponentOne Flash for .NET - gives you the power to present your mission critical information in the form of vector graphics and animation, and allows you to create Macromedia Flash (SWF) documents from your applications. Draw content to a single-frame Flash document, create Flash animation through a series of frames, or organise your Flash frames in a slide show.
  • ComponentOne PDF for .NET - allows you to create Adobe PDF documents from your applications. The commands provided for adding content to documents are similar to the ones available in the .NET Graphics class. So, if you know how to display text and graphics in .NET Graphics, then you already know how to use PDF for .NET. This powerful tool supports advanced features included in the PDF specification such as security, compression, outlining, hyper-linking, and attachments.
  • ComponentOne Zip for .NET - allows you to quickly compress data, saving disk space and network bandwidth, and easily manipulate and work with compressed data. Zip for .NET allows you to easily compress files, including system and hidden files, and add and delete compressed files and folders; you can even read and write to zip files stored in streams. Zip for .NET contains a C1Zip class that manipulates zip files and streams, as well as lower-level classes for compressing and expanding files and streams that are not packaged in zip format.

 

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