Office Commandbars in windows forms

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Hari Shankar V

Dear all
I am a windows application developer. I want to add office like command
bars, toolbars or menubars in my application. Please tell me which component
i need to include to achieve this. i searched a lot in google but didn't
find clearly the answer.

Ciao
Hari
 
Hari Shankar V said:
Dear all
I am a windows application developer. I want to add office like command
bars, toolbars or menubars in my application. Please tell me which
component i need to include to achieve this. i searched a lot in google
but didn't find clearly the answer.
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There are a few commercial ones out there, at the least, and .NET 2.0 adds
basic commandbar support to the standard runtime.

The only free product I know of is Lutz Roeders CommandBar. I hanv't used
this one and can't really comment on its suitability, but it does appear to
be available and open source:
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Commercial products I know of off hand:

DevExpress XtraBars:
This is the component I personally use for command bars and nav bars,
although I am not a big fan of their docking windows support.

http://www.devexpress.com/?section=/products/NET/XtraBars

Infragistics WinToolBars:

I've never used this one, so I can't comment.
http://www.infragistics.com/products/toolbars.asp?sec=1


Beyond that, a simple google search may turn up a freeware component
 
Thank Daniel for the references.

also i am looking out for Office 2003 Theme. i could do the XP theme support
easily as it is available.
Pls gimme some hints towards this.

Ciao
Hari
 
Hari Shankar V said:
Thank Daniel for the references.

also i am looking out for Office 2003 Theme. i could do the XP theme
support
easily as it is available.
Pls gimme some hints towards this.
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Both commercial products provide the Office 2003 theme, if thats what you
mean.

Actually, in a little more research, there are some tools at
http://www.divil.co.uk/net/controls/ which provide Office 2003 toolbars,
document containers, and dockable windows.

That may suit you better
 
Actually, I would wait for .NET 2.0 if you could. It provides the
Office 2003 theme, and does so quite nicely, I might add. It is much more
than basic command bar functionality.
 
Nicholas Paldino said:
Actually, I would wait for .NET 2.0 if you could. It provides the
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So would I, if you can wait that long.
Office 2003 theme, and does so quite nicely, I might add. It is much more
than basic command bar functionality.
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Hmm, As best I can tell it only offers CommandBars and Menus(now called
ToolbarStrip and MenubarStrip). Did I miss something?

Perhaps I shouldn't have said basic, but most of the other bar control
packages I pointed out offer features above and beyond CommandBars. For
example I am using SandBar because it offers Office 2003 style Task Panes.
Using the CommandBar implementation in those packages allows me to maintain
uniformity.
 
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