Notification Package

The Notification package consists of controls providing visual feedback to the user of the status of application events. Common applications of notification package include enhanced progress bars, splash screens, and customized message boxes with animation.

SplitContainerAdv control is similar to the SplitContainer control of .NET 2.0 Framework. It has two panels separated by a splitter. The SplitContainerAdv control allows you to set all child controls that could share a vertical or horizontal space.

Gradient colors and styles can be applied to the SplitContainerAdv panels to enhance their appearance.

Any SplitContainerAdv panel can be collapsed as needed.

The appearance of the SplitContainerAdv can be enhanced by applying styles, which include the new Office 2007 color schemes.

Office 2007 'Black' Color Scheme

Office 2007 'Blue' Color Scheme

Office 2007 'Silver' Color Scheme

Office 2003 Style

Office XP Style

VS 2005 Style

Mozilla Style

Splash Panel enables creation of splash notification windows such as message notification windows of MSN instant messenger. Complete customization of splash message behavior and placement is possible. Just drag-and-drop controls on the Splash Panel. Splash Panel can appear on the screen with animation and be used to collect user input.

Splash control can be used to add splash screens to applications. Default Splash control can be used without writing any code. The Splash screen can be displayed for a specified period of time or it can be explicitly closed.

The splash screen can be shown in any user defined location. You can specify an image and display interval through the Windows Forms designer. Users can also preview the splash screen within the designer.

StatusBarAdv is an easy to use StatusBar control with advanced features. StatusbarAdv has full support for the designer.

Custom panels can be used in the StatusBarAdv control.

The StatusBarAdvPanel control extended from GradientPanel can be used in a form or with a StatusBarAdv control to show information like key states, date and time etc.

The ProgressBarAdv control is an extension of the standard progress bar which helps display task completion status using background, border and foreground styles.

The ProgressBarAdv includes the following Progress Styles: Constant, Gradient, MultipleGradient, Tube, Image, System and WaitingGradient.

When Foreground style is gradient, GradientStartColor determines start color of the foreground and GradientEndColor determines end color of the foreground.

The default value of multiple gradients is an empty color array. You can add colors to multiple gradients by modifying the MultipleColorsproperty.

When progress style is Image, ForegroundImage specifies the image to draw on the foreground and the StretchImage property decides whether an image is stretched.

This makes the ProgressBarAdv look like the progress bar displayed during Windows XP boot.

Set ForeSegments to False and draw ProgressBarAdv without segments.

Orientation of the text can be either horizontal or vertical. This can be achieved by setting the TextOrientation and ProgressOrientation properties to 'Horizontal' or 'Vertical'. This determines the Orientation of the control.

When the TextStyle property is set to 'Custom', it allows setting of ProgressBarAdv text when the value changes. You can change the ProgressBarAdv text's font color with the help of FontColor property. The TextShadow property can be used to give a shadow effect for displayed text.

The GradientPanel is a Panel derived control that provides a custom background gradient using an array of colors.