I have to first apology from all of you because of this long silence. I didn't realize that it has passed that much time since our last post, which may lead that whether we are not on track on new releases. If you think so, you are dead wrong...

Flagship control of Klik! ListLib.Net...LLRichGridView...

Hello everyone and we are back again with another exciting control announcement from our upcoming list controls suite. This is something not very common in Windows Forms world which we hope that it'll fill that gap :

LLCarousel, create next generation main menu screens...

As I said, I only know one more similar control in windows forms world and it's very difficult to use, even for me . We tried to keep things simple and in core, all you have to do is to add items into the items collection, select a predefined path type and you are ready to go. Aslo, don't get fooled with the jerky animation you see in the animated gif above, the real control animates silky smooth .

Windows Presentation Foundation and SilverLight (Aka WPF/E) is what you hear everywhere nowadays. WPF is the new successor of UI in Windows OS to traditional Windows Forms where SilverLight  is a subversion of WPF framework (though not %100 the same) to be used in Web cloud which has cross platform support as well. Without diving much into the topic, let me show you a few videos which is a great showcase of some WPF applications and if you didn't see WPF in action before, prepare your "Holy Cow!" words  :

WPF Mashup

WPF Applications 

As  the video"wooowwweddd", you should already understood that it's not the kind you knew so far. There is a significant change in how UI is used as well it's created. Some quick facts of this new technology includes :

• Built-in animation support.
• Hardware acceleration (On top of DirectX) which unleashes the power of your computer's GPU.
• Separation of UI and code layers similar to ASP.Net where you use XAML, a new declarative XML variation, to build up your UIs.
• Theming all over the UI.

In one of the hottest days of summer, we are again back to inform you about our upcoming product including the first control from it . This new product is named Klik! ListLib.Net and will contain next generation list controls for windows forms. Some of those controls will be similar in functionality you see in the market as well as will contain some new unique components, like the control below...

LLTimeLineList

We recently noticed that, we always provide single control/component usage samples with our products. These samples are great to have a first look on single pieces but to create a real working application, you have to connect all these pieces to build up your interfaces and applications. This led us to create a new kind of example series, which we call real world examples. 

I'm glad to inform you the very first sample in this matter, Klik! Online Backup Manager, where you can see it's first screenshot below :

This sample is choosen from one of the popular internet services nowadays, backing up files and folders from your local computer to a location at internet cloud. While it won't provide that online storage capability , it'll be a fully functional sample where you'll be able to create backup jobs, see a fake backup process in action as well as restoring those backed up files. We also tried our best to bring the power of our controls/components to show you how to create simple, clean and great looking interfaces using our products.

It'll be available along with our new website which will be published very soon. It'll be provided as a click once installation as an online demo as well as a part of our Klik! Windows Forms Library setup. I think we don't have to mention that you'll receive full sources of it as well.

Hope you liked it and we'll continue to bring more examples of this kind very soon... 

And here we are with the second surprise for today as mentioned in the earlier post . I'm also glad to inform you that Klik! IconPack, which is our package with 220 unique icon images, is available as of today.

If you look at the above illustration, you'll easily notice that these images are really great looking but also, unlike the other packages in the market, we provide XAML versions of those images except the regular PNG/ICO versions so if you are developing under WPF/SilverLight, you can enjoy the vector format in XAML files for a resolution independent drawing of those images. To have further info, please follow this link : http://www.kliksoft.com/?S=2&SS=20

Well, that's all for today and keep watching this space as we'll have exciting new announcements in the following days as well... 

Finally, I'm happy to inform you the immediate availability of Klik! NavigationLib.Net v1.0 for Windows Forms. This library, as mentioned in earlier posts, contains flavors of navigation oriented components/controls. Some of them are great versions of already known controls such as treeview, breadcrumb, wizard, etc. where some of them are unique to our library such as NLStepNavigator and NLGeoContainer.

It shares the same advanced visual features you see on rest of our products so you can expect great looking controls/components. To have further info, check out the following link : http://www.kliksoft.com/?S=2&SS=19

And this is not the only thing we got for today, watch out for the next post...  

Hello again and here we are back to introduce another exciting product...

So far, 2 key points in our user interface components were rich functionality and state of the art look. When we talk about the look, there is something else which completes the phrase, "state of the art look" and that is icons. So far, all in our sample applications we used an icon set licensed from a 3rd party icon developer which were quite nice. While creating the single products, which will merge into Klik! Windows Forms Library very soon, we noticed that it's not %100 perfect without using good looking icons and thus we decided to create our own icon library which should look like this :

Above you can see the early preview of a few icons from this upcoming library, named Klik! IconPack. We hope to deliver you 200 unique, state of the art icons you can use royalty free in your applications. One difference in our library will be the formats you are going to get. We're not going to only provide ico and png files but also xaml versions, which should allow you to benefit from the resolution independent vector drawing on supported environments (Currently WPF and SilverLight). When it comes to size, you'll also get various sizes between 256x256 to 16x16 pixels.

Currently, our development team is working very closely with our graphic design team to bring the best quality of icons available in the market. The development is going very fast and we expect to release the pack very very soon...

Hope you liked what you saw and see you soon with more exciting news...

While working hard in here about the new products, I just realised that we haven't updated our development blog for some time about what is going on. Please accept my apologies about this. We are ner the completion on Klik! NavigationLib.Net as well as some other products but as the title of this post  implies, let me give you last minute info about Klik! NavigationLib.Net and the most important 2 controls in this library...

NLTreeView, a flexible and great looking treeview control...

One of the important elements in navigation is treeview in lots of applications. The built in .Net treeview helps in most cases but suffers from it's shortcomings as well. To adress these issues, we created a treeview control from scracth which is very flexible and elegant. As you can see from the screenshot, our treeview supports node level visual formatting where you can change the look of the text, image, checbkbox/radiobutton, etc. The images you see in the left side are the signimages and their background can be formatted as well.

In the functional side we introduce virtual node feature where subnodes can be populated when needed. Sub/Parent nodes can be related so when a node is checked, the parent node is immediately affected by this. Checks can be either CheckBoxes or RadioButton as your wish. Full Drag'n'Drop is included as well.

And the best, though all those visual and functional features, the treeview performance is really great.

NLStepNavigator, a new way to navigate through step based actions...

NLStepNavigator is something unique in the market. This control simply holds list of steps and represents them visually on it's area where you can point the actual step or even let the user to select the step to navigate. We mostly use Wizards in these cases but there are situations where this kind of control will look much more elegant.

The control, as you see, is fully loaded with visual features. Each item can have an associated image with it. Items can be ordered in cross order as you see or behind/after the step line. The control also supports vertical orientation besides the horizontail orientation you see in the screenshot.

That's all for now again, hope to meet you again with the release of Klik! NavigationLib.Net and also the introduction of other exciting products...

Here we are back continuing with Part 3 of our intrduction to Klik! NavigationLib.Net for Windows Forms. This time we introduce you another new control, NLWizard...

Wizard interfaces has always been helpfull to create step by step selection dialogs and we all more or less need them in a part of our application. NLWizard helps you in this case with allowing you to create nice looking wizard dialogs within a short amount of time. It's advanced design-time support allows you to add the necessary pages with ease. As the nature of wizards, you also have total control on next-back button logic so you can control advancement on pages after specific actions are done, such as when a selection from a combobox has been made.

I think I don't need to tell you about it's look. It benefits the same advanced visual features as you see in other Klik! Windows Forms Library controls again with style management support. The sample screenshot above should be speaking itself...

That's all for now again and watch out this space for more information about Klik! NavigationLib.Net as well as other product announcements we'll do in the following days...