NetXP Bars Suite

Command Bars and Context Menus

The command bar suite in NetXP is one of the most important aspects of NetXP. They enable a complete unification of menus and toolbars and provide an excellent user interface virtually identical to the one found in many Microsoft applications, including Office 2003.

The context menu is designed to replace the Windows Forms context menu and provide a way to display popup menus using the same architecture used by the command bar control.

List Bar

This control is an implementation of the Microsoft Outlook bar control. This control provides both the functionality of a standard Outlook bar control as well as the functionality of the VS.NET toolbox control. The List Bar control supports drag and drop, as well as custom rendering.

Status Bar

The NetXP status bar is a Windows Forms status bar that supports custom rendering and progress bar panels, as shown in the screenshots.

View Bar

This control is a clone of the control in Outlook 2003 that allows navigation between views. It is different from List Bar by the fact that it allows any type of control to be displayed inside the pages.

Renderer Support

Through custom extensible rendering, the NetXP bars support Office 2003, Office XP, and Windows XP visual styles. Because renderers are extensible, you can also define your own custom look and feel in your own applications.

The three screenshots below show the three renderers provided with NetXP. From top to bottom, these are: Office 2003, Office XP, and Windows Default.

Screenshots