Docking Package

The Docking Package consists of the Essential Tools docking windows architecture that allows users to add Visual Studio.NET-type dockable controls to Windows Forms applications. Any control can be set as a docking window, and docking layouts can be hosted within Forms, UserControls, or any derivative of the ContainerControl type. The framework supports the complete range of docking behaviors such as docking / floating, nested levels, tabbed groups, state transitions, autohide, MDIchild transitions, non-dockable / non-floatable options, a unique fill mode, and full state persistence. An advanced designer allows users to harness full WYSIWYG configuration of the dock layout.

Accurate State Transitions	AutoHide Mode
AutoHide ContextMenu	Caption Bar Customization
Container Control Support	Customized Caption Drawing
Custom Caption Button	Design time drag and drop
Design time FloatingWindow	Design time Tabbed Window
Dock Prediction Bands	Dock Tab Alignment
Docking Window caption alignment	Docking Window Maximize Button
Docking Window-MDIChild Interchangeability	Extender Provider Architecture
Fill and Non-float Modes	Full State Persistence
Icons in Docked controls	Linked Manager Support
Multi-level Nested Docking	Nested Floating
Support for DockContextMenu	Tabbed Docking
ShowHide for docking arrows	Freeze Resizing of Docked Controls
SuperTooltip for Caption Buttons	Visual Styles
VS.Net Type Docking Windows	Drag Provider Styles
WYSIWYG Designer

Menus Package

The Essential Tools Menus package comes with the XP Menus framework, which provides users with the latest Office XP look and feel, as well as functionality for menus, toolbars, and context menus.

XPMenus With Vista Compatibility	SuperTooltip Support
Menus with Custom Colors	ComboBox Menu Items
List Menu Items	Custom Popup Controls
Generic ToolBars	Quick Customization Popup
Partial Menus	Office XP Look and Feel
Windows XP Themed Look and Feel	Office 2003 Look and Feel
Office 2003 ControlBars	VS 2005 Look and Feel
Office 2007 Look and Feel	Runtime User Customization Support
Full Docking support	Complete MDI Merging Support
XP Context Menu	XPToolBar
Padding property without Themes	Images In BarItems
DoubleClickEvent For BarItems

Office 2007 Controls

Essential Tools have come up with the All New Office2007 controls to design your applications with the exact Look and Feel of the Office2007 UI.

Controls for Office2007 like UI

Office2007Form

Office2007 Form which does not have any dependency in RibbonControlAdv is now available in Essential suite. It supports all three color schemes, help button, Right To left feature everything similiar to the normal form with the Office2007 look and feel.

Color schemes

Caption Settings

Ribbon Control Adv

The RibbonControlAdv exhibits the same functionalities as Microsoft' s Ribbon Control. It serves as an optimized alternative for menus, taskpanes and toolstrips.

Office 2007 like look and feel	Office Menu Button
SuperToolTip For OfficeMenuButton	SuperAccelerator For OfficeMenuButton
Quick Access Toolbar	ToolStripTabItem
Customizable Tab Groups	RibbonPanel States
ToolStripEx	ToolStripPanelItem
Galleries	StatusStrip
TrackBarEx	Ribbon Merging
Hosting .NET Controls	Right to Left Support
Launcher Styles	Layout Styles
Border Styles	Office Color Schemes
Custom Color Schemes

SuperToolTip

The SuperToolTip control enables users to provide tooltip information. It is composed of three sections namely the header, body and footer.

SuperToolTip	Fading Effect
Mutiline Text In SuperToolTip	Right To Left Support
SuperTooltip Properties

MiniToolBar

MiniToolBars, are custom toolbars, including tools for easier and faster access. The Essential Tools MiniToolbars can host a wide range of controls ranging from Buttons to Panels.

MiniBar Support

MessageBoxAdv

MessageBoxAdv is an enhanced MessageBox class that comes with office2007 style. This supports all three color schemes, custom colors and custom images.

MessageBoxAdv

Scrollers Frame

The ScrollersFrame control offers the ability to include horizontal and vertical scrollbars with Office 2007 visual styles to any scrollable control. The ScrollersFrame control comes with three different visual styles, offering context menu support. The Scrollbars can be displayed with a size gripper and the distance to be moved for a scroll, both horizontal and vertical, can also be defined.

Visual Styles

Context Menu

Super Accelerator

Super Accelerator component is used to accelerate the click event of items by using a Single key stroke without mouse hover on it.

Super Accelerator Functionality

Color And Font Options

Tree Package

The Tree package provides an advanced TreeView control with numerous appearance options, extensive customization capabilities, and a databound mode that supports data binding by taking a relational data source with rows and columns (DataSet, DataView, ArrayList) and grouping the rows based on one or more specified fields.

Rich Selection and Drag and Drop Support	Line Styles
ShowPlusOnExpand	Sorting all the Nodes
State Images for Tree Nodes	ItemHeight of TreeViewAdv
Custom Images for signs	Populate TreeViewAdv with Xml
Positioning Node Contents	Custom painting in nodes
Selection Mode of TreeViewAdv	LabelEdit
HotTracking	Inheritable Styles
Rich TreeNodeAdv Features	Significant Features of TreeViewAdv
Images in TreeViewAdv control	TreeNodeAdv TextColor HelpText and Font
Custom control options for TreeNodeAdv	Color Options for CheckBox
ContextMenus For TreeNodes

Tabbed MDI Package

The Tabbed MDI package provides a new Tabbed MDI layout mode (as an alternative to the default Cascade and Tiled modes), popularized by VS.NET. This framework was built with great consideration for ease of use, so much that you do not have to modify your existing MDI apps in any way to enable Tabbed MDI mode in them. With a single method call, you can switch between Tabbed and regular MDI layout modes. Our Tabbed MDI framework will retain the MDI scheme in Tabbed mode. The child forms will still be MDIChildren of the parent (they will NOT be moved into a tab control; this results in loss of MDI functionality like merged menus, switching using CTRL?, etc.), thereby enhancing your apps without interfering with the general MDI scheme. The Tabbed MDI framework provides users the exact functionality and look-and-feel of VS.NET tabbed child windows.

Multiple Tab Groups	Complete User Customization
Dynamic TabGroup Splitters	Simple TabbedMDI Manager
Automatic State Persistence	Customizable Tab Context Menus
Tab Styles	Tabbed-Grouped MDIChildren
Individual Close button	DropDownList Button
MultipleTab Alignments	3D embossed style for Close Buttons

Navigation Package

The Navigation package includes controls such as the GroupBar, GroupView, and the XPTaskBar. These are primarily used for implementing command lists where each command is represented by an image and / or text. Popular examples of command lists are the Microsoft OutlookBar, VS.NET Toolbox, Windows 2000 / XP Folder Selectors, and the Windows XP TaskBar. The GroupBar implements a tab-type container that can serve as a host for a collection of GroupView or other Windows Forms controls. The GroupView is an extensively customizable list-type control capable of cloning the above listed popular command interfaces. The XPTaskBar may be used for displaying standard command items or as a container that can host several other controls.

GroupBar Control	Visual Styles for GroupBar
Office2007 Visual Styles ForGroupBar	Stacked GroupBar
Collapsible GroupBar	Integrated Scrolling
Item Text Alignment for Groupbar	GroupBar as a Generic Control Container
Inplace Renaming for GroupBar Items	GroupView Icon Modes
Button Type Selection	Flow View Mode
Varying Item Heights	Flat Look GroupView Items
Highlighting GroupView Items	Themes Enabled In Groupview Items
ToolTip Support For GroupViewItems	Inplace Renaming for GroupView Items
DragDrop Options For GroupView Items	Item Text Wrap
XPTaskBar	Collapsible XPTaskBarBox
Images For XPTaskBarBox Items	Custom Controls In XPTaskBarBox
ToolTips In XPTaskBarBox	Drag Drop XPTaskBarBox Items
Header Text Alignment	Larger Header Images
Hidden and Disabled Items In XPTaskBarBox	Owner Draw Support
Left Spacing for XPTaskBarBox Items	Item Font Customization
HeaderForeColor property for XPTaskBarBox	Office 2007 Visual Style for XPTaskBar

Editors Package

The Editors package is a comprehensive collection of controls most commonly used in creating data entry forms. All the editor controls have been architected to provide simple and powerful means for capturing data input, validating and displaying it with the appropriate formatting. They also come with full data binding, internationalization, and localization support. Web Forms / ASP.NET versions of some of the data editors are also included in this package.

Custom Colors	AutoAppend
AutoComplete	ComboBoxAutoComplete
ComboBoxBase	ComboDropDown
ComboBoxAdv	MultiColumnComboBox
PopupControlContainer	DateTimePickerAdv
MonthCalendarAdv	CalculatorControl
ButtonAdv	ButtonEdit
CurrencyEdit	CurrencyTextBox
DoubleTextBox	IntegerTextBox
PercentTextBox	MaskedEditBox
DomainUpDownExt	NumericUpDownExt
ColorPickerButton	ColorUIControl
Office 2007 Style Color Picker Cells	CheckBoxAdv
RadioButtonAdv	GradientLabel
EditableList	FolderBrowser
FontComboBox	FontListBox
TextBoxExt	BannerTextProvider

Tabs Package

The XP Tabs (TabControAdv) feature provided as part of this package is an advanced tab control with plenty of appearance styles and configuration capabilities. It makes the creation of custom tabs with custom shapes and styles a snap. XP Tabs is a 100% Native .NET tab control implementation that comes with a lot more configuration and customization capabilities than the legacy wrapper that the .NET framework comes with. It provides all the basic functionality of a standard tab control and much more.

Tab Styles	Office2007 Color Schemes
Tab Alignment	Size Modes
Tab Text Alignment	Image Alignment
Tab Scroll Buttons	Custom Back Colors
Owner drawn Tabs	Tab Primitives
Close Button For TabControlAdv	Multiline text
Tab States	Other Sophisticated Features

CommandBars Package

The CommandBars package includes the CommandBars framework. CommandBars implement the framework support that is required for creating Visual Studio.NET-type dockable / floatable menus and toolbars. A CommandBar, in itself, provides only the dockable host, and it is up to the user to implement the menu or toolbar that imparts the CommandBar its functionality. The Essential Tools Menus Package uses the CommandBars framework for creating the XP menus and toolbars.

Visual Styles For CommandBars	Multiple Row Docking
Floating CommandBars	Resize Modes
DropDown Menus	Full State Persistence
WYSIWYGDesigner

Notification Package

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

SplitContainerAdv	Visual Styles For SplitContainerAdv
Splash Panel	Splash Control
StatusBarAdv	StatusBarAdvPanel
ProgressBarAdv	GradientPanel

Layout Manager Package

The Layout Manager package provides users a comprehensive set of Layout Managers that help manage advanced layouts on a form. While the layout management support that comes with Windows Forms in the form of docking, anchoring, and padding is adequate for many layout management needs, you may find yourself requiring more complex layout managers. Popularized by the Java AWT and Swing frameworks, the following layout managers will cater to complex layout needs with full design-time support:

FlowLayout	CardLayout
GridLayout	GridBagLayout
BorderLayout	Designers
Layout Elements	Selective Participation
Custom Layout Bounds

Wizard Package

The Wizard Package provides controls that use the Wizard interface (a series of tabs laid out with next, back and other buttons) popularized by many Windows based applications. The Wizard control lets users create such applications quickly.

WizardControl	XPTaskPane
Visual Styles for XPTaskPane