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...  

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...

Just after the initial announcement, we are back with further info about our upcoming new library...

NLGeoContainer, create nice backgrounds with minimal effort

If you are into the video gaming world like me, you already know how futuristic and rich interfaces does each game offer. If you also own XBox 360, you probably have used/seen the new NXE interface introduced on last fall as well. This interface, briefly, shows a lot of animated geometric shapes on the background which looks quite nice.

NLGeoContainer is something influenced from this. Apart from a standard container control, it has GeoItems collection. This collection holds NLGeoItem classes where each item contains details of a gometric shape to be drawn on the control background. One sad thing is that our objects do not support animations, meaning static but this should not prevent enjoying the nice result you'll get like you see above...

Hope you liked it and see you soon with the next post...

It wasn't long that we had released the new major version of Klik! EntryLib.Net but this did not slow us down and instead we are full speed working on new things. This time I'm produd to inform you one of the upcoming products, Klik! NavigationLib.Net for Windows Forms...

As the name implies, this new product will introduce navigation oriented controls/components where some of them will be industry first...

The First Control, NLBreadCrumb

BreadCrumb has become popular after the release of Windows Vista and also started to be used among the applications. Our implementation closely mimics the look and feel you see in original Vista, including tree style items collection, full visual customization including Office 2007, Office 2003, Vista and many other custom styles. Not the quite right time to disclose but you can expect some interoperability with some other controls in the library as well...

That's all for now for the introduction part and see you in the following days with more details...