Yes, it's finally here. We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Klik! EntryLib.Net v2 for Windows Forms. Please also accept our apologies for the delay as it supposed to happen last week but, as people say, better than never...

To celebrate the release, we are also offering free license(s) (Equal amount of purchased licenses) of Klik! StylerLib.Net for every purchase of Klik! EntryLib.Net for a limited time. We think that this should ease the transition from your old interfaces to these beatifull looking componets. It lasts till 28 Februrary of 2009, so hurry up...

At last, let's list some new facts about this new release :

- Optimized drawing routines which causes your forms to load and draw much faster than v1 which will allow you to use the library in any crowded screens.
- New Office 2007 styles with blue, silver and black color schemes. Each scheme is provided in classic and modern form to mimic the latest Office 2007 look.
- New KRichToolTip component provides Office 2007 style tooltips.
- New KFormManager allows you to style your forms, including it's borders, with Office 2007 or any other custom style.
- New ELModalBox component brings the well known ASP.Net modalbox dialogs into the Windows Forms world.
- New ELProgress control allows you to represent your long going processes either in Bar or Circle style, with static and animated options.
- New ELDataGridView enhances the regular DataGridView with advanced visual features.
- Enhanced visual features allow you to draw your texts with glow effects, images with mirror effect, borders with gradiend drawings and more...
- New design-time Qucik Access Menu allows you to reach many common elements from one place such as predefined styles, edit/load/save style actions, specific control/component features such as editing items, etc.
-  Lots of visual/functional improvements over the other available controls/components...

We hope that all of you will like the new features and benefits you get with this new version. See you soon with the next post which will contain news about the upcoming exciting products...

Hello again and welcome back to a new and last edition of What's new on Klik! EntryLib.Net v2 posts. First of all, we welcomed a new year recently so I wish all of you the very best in the new year on behalf of Klik! Software team.

As you might noticed, I mentioned last post at the beginning. It's the last post on these series as we are scheduled to release Klik! EntryLib.Net v2 for Windows Forms at the beginning of the next week. There are only some bits and pieces left to polish the product. We also have some nice additinal surprises with the release which will last for a limited time so stay tuned...

Another first in Windows Forms, ModalBox

If you are familiar with ASP.Net world, ModalBox is something you probably already know. Originally invented to overcome the popup blocking mechanisms, it's now widely used for different purposes such as showing login dialogs, images, etc. While we don't have the mentioned problem in Windows Forms world, it might still be a usefull in some cases.

ELModalBox, is a new component introduced in Klik! EntryLib.Net v2 which mimics the same behavior for Windows Forms. What it simply does is to show a translucent layer on top of the parent control you specified and also allows you to show a content control inside this layer. It's especially usefull to create attractive login screens or some lengthy UI operations such this :

Hope you liked it and see you with the next post, which will be the release of Klik! EntryLib.Net v2 for Windows Forms...