A Toolkit/Component Suite by Actipro Software LLC

Next-generation dockable toolbars, menus, statusbars, dockable windows, tabstrips, and navigationbar controls. All controls in UIStudio have multiple rendering styles that are completely customizable and have designer support.

Bar Controls features:
* Powerful command / command link design model in which commands each define an operation and command links represent one or more instances of the command within the user interface.
* Command types include normal buttons, popup buttons, expander buttons, split buttons, labels, textboxes, and comboboxes.
* Command links can be placed on menubars, toolbars or menus.
* Tooltips for command links.
* Dockable toolbars and menubars support docking on all sides of their host container, as well as floating mode.
* Instance properties and global overrides such as CanDockHostLeft, CanClose, etc. give precise over dockable toolbar capabilities.
* Ability for dockable toolbars to auto-show/hide based on what application mode is set.
* Overflow and flow dockable toolbar layout modes.
* Reset dockable toolbar functionality and Add/Remove Buttons functionality.
* Tear-off menus.
* Save/load command and command link configurations to XML layout files.
* Bar control merge and revert merge makes supporting MDI situations easier.
* Stand-alone toolbars.
* Statusbar control that supports panels with links, animated images, progressbars, and more.
* Extremely advanced keyboard shortcut processing that supports application modes, chords (two-key sequences), and more.
* Multiple keyboard shortcuts may be assigned for each command.
* Command / command link design model allows for total run-time UI customization, just like in Office or VS.NET.
* Quick customize mode of menubar and toolbar command links (via holding down of Alt key).
* Much more.

Dock Controls features:
* Dock tool windows on all sides of a central client area, in nested hierarchies.
* Multiple styles of Whidbey-style docking guides and drop-target hints.
* Attach several tool windows in one container, displayed with tabs.
* Tear off tool windows into floating windows.
* Place tool windows in collapsible auto-hide mode to preserve client area real estate.
* Tool window inner-fill mode.
* Global defaults for tool window capability control (CanDockLeft, CanAutoHide, CanClose, etc.) with tool window instance overrides.
* Load and save tool window layouts directly to XML data files or persist layout data in some other media, such as a database.
* Dynamically read and write custom XML data to layout data.
* Option to turn off MDI so that a single control can be used to fill the client area.
* Two styles of MDI - standard and tabbed.
* Standard MDI allows for normal MDI windows that can be tiled and cascaded.
* Tabbed MDI has tabstrips that allow for selection of the current document.
* Tabbed MDI tabs can be dragged to create new horizontal or vertical tab groups.
* Tabbed MDI containers can display a drop-down list of active documents and/or use scroll buttons to smoothly scroll through tabs that are out of view.
* Document windows track modified states and reflect them in the user interface.
* Ctrl+Tab tool and document switching with the optional Next Window Navigation dialog.
* Ability to cancel the closing of tool and document windows.
* Programmatically dock all tool windows anywhere in the layout and move/resize floating tool windows at run-time.
* Dynamically create new tool windows and document windows.
* Built-in default context menus that may be cancelled to provide custom menus.
* Detailed event model.
* Tool Windows dialog available in designer to aid in locating and manipulating tool windows.

TabStrip features:
* Align tabs to the left, top, right, or bottom.
* Optional display of close and options buttons.
* Three modes of tab overflow handling (normal, shrink-to-fit, and scroll buttons).
* Scroll buttons overflow mode provides smooth scrolling of tabs.
* Set images and text for tabs.
* Control minimum and maximum tab sizes.
* Handle an event to provide tooltip text for tabs on-the-fly.
* Ability to handle automatic drag/drop reordering of tabs.
* Option to hide tabs if only one tab is open
* Ability to cancel selected tab changes.

NavigationBar features:
* Complete implementation of Navigation Bar functionality found in Outlook 2003.
* Buttons can be collapsed to an overflow area, allowing for more client area real estate.
* Overflow chevron button provides access to customization features and hidden buttons.
* Built-in Navigation Bar Options dialog for reordering buttons and controlling which buttons are visible.
* Support for large and small image sizes.
* Ability to disable specific buttons.
* Ability to cancel selected pane changes.
* A separate NavigationBarPanel control that can act as a container and renders in three modes (normal, header, and sub-header modes).