but what about the panel itself?
If you think its a panel, then it must be a panel! ;-)
Remember Outlook was not written in .NET...
If its easiest for you to implement it as a Panel, then by all means use a
Panel. Although I would probably start with a Control, or possibly even a
UserControl (depending on if I needed the extra features that a UserControl
has over a Control). Hint to create your own To Do bar for Outlook you would
create an Outlook 2007 Region, which in .NET is based on a UserControl.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms788695.aspx
And the vertical button?!
A button control would be a good start to implement a vertical button. How
is a "vertical button" different then a normal button? Or put another way;
what do you need to do to a button to display it vertically. Is it harder or
easier to do this to a Button control then some other control (such as
Panel, Control, or UserControl).
I would also ask if you are comfortable creating custom controls that look &
feel of Outlook, or would your time & money be better spent by purchasing
controls from a third party (such as Janusys, Infragistics, Developers
Express, Syncfusion, Telerik, or any of the other 3rd party control vendors
out there).
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Hope this helps
Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]
..NET Application Architect, Enthusiast, & Evangelist
T.S. Bradley -
http://www.tsbradley.net
giddy said:
ok,
but what about the panel itself?
1. What exactly is it? a form , panel? !
And the vertical button?!
Jay B. Harlow said:
Giddy,
Its a grid with 3 columns.
The grid supports grouping (just as all the other grids in Outlook).
To get grouping support in a grid you need to acquire a 3rd party grid,
I'm
most familiar with the GridEx control:
http://www.janusys.com/controls/
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Hope this helps
Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]
..NET Application Architect, Enthusiast, & Evangelist
T.S. Bradley -
http://www.tsbradley.net
hi ,
i need to handle tasks in my app and i need to make something like the
outlook 07 TODO BAR....
http://gidsfiles.googlepages.com/outlook_todo.jpg
i need to know:
1. What exactly is it? a form , panel? !
2. how is the vertical bar made?? its colour changes when clicked and
most importantly displays dynamic text!
3. I DONT need the calender , i plan on just using a plain list view
, I
DONT need the fancy flags , but i NEED the listview tree view
combination
....look at this:
http://gidsfiles.googlepages.com/outlook_listview_tree.jpg
I'm using .NET 2 and C#2.0
could someone PLEASE HELP ME OUT? !
thanks