FREE .Net Controls

[Large]

Hi OOP Mateys,

I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread that contains locations to FREE .Net controls, so I'll start the ball rolling with the new Power Pack I just found !

The VB.Net Power Pack over at Microsoft is a free download containing 7 new controls including Blending Panels and Notification Windows.

Link : VB.Net Power Pack

The Power Pack can also be used in C# !

They are a great addition to your .Net toolbox and they are free !

Enjoy ! :D

Here's a list of submissions so far . . .

VB Powerpack - Submitted by Large

Divil - Submitted by Large

Dacris NetXP - Submitted by xStainDx

Ziplib - Submitted by D-FENS

ABC Upload & PDF - Submitted by D-FENS

Various Controls - Submitted by quadsoft

Steep Valley Controls - Submitted by Large

AWS Filepicker - Submitted by heathrowe

.Net Tools - Submitted by heathrowe

Edited July 12, 2004 by Large

[Large]

Some nice controls there hugenstein, I especially like the FreeTextBox !

Thanks for them, oh and welcome to Neowin ! :happy:

[ZC]

I found one called Skybound VisualStyles. The website has the following information about it:

Skybound VisualStyles gives your applications the true look and feel of Windows XP and later Windows operating systems. It overcomes the serious limitations of the visual style support included with the .NET framework.

VisualStyles provides both a drop-in Windows Forms component that can extend your existing application with zero code, and a set of classes that can be used to custom draw your own controls using the Windows Theme API. It was designed using .NET framework conventions and integrates easily into any application or component library.

Their license basically says that it can be used for free, but you resell it under your own name. I tihnk that if you do want to do that you need to buy a license for $99.95, but otherwise it's free :D

EDIT: Found this information. It clarifies the license:

This program is completely free for commercial or non-commercial use. Full C# source code is also available for just $99.95.

[null_]

Lots of great things here; I'm just getting back into Win32 programming, these should prove to be useful :)

[Large]

I found one called Skybound VisualStyles.

Nice find, ZaheerChothia ! :happy:

[hugenstein]

A couple more...

Input Mask WebControl

UPS CityStateFinder

[ZC]

Those seems quite nice hugenstein. Thanks for the submission and welcome to Neowin! :D

[Large]

Yeah Nice hugenstein, I'm personally into the VB.Net controls more than the ASP.Net ones but thats still a nice find !

Keep up the work guys and keep 'em coming ! :yes:

[biorK]

This stickie rules! Thanks a lot to all of the submittors (sp?)!

(Y)

[Large]

Glad you find it useful biorK, it just dawned on me one day that I have loads of favourite links to free .net controls so I thought lets get a mod to make my thread sticky so that others can add their free controls.

I luv .net its great way to program without all the hassles plus with Microsoft behind it could not fail, .net is here to stay and with all those kind people releasing their controls as freebies it really helps.

I do believe in the next version of Visual Studio Microsoft have added quite a few new controls as well plus the excellent MY class, you can read more about the MY class at the link below :

Link : MY Class - VB 2005

It looks as though the new additions to the new Visual Studio are going to make life easier, so Whidbey should rock !

Kind Regards

[Cool4]

WOW... this IS AWESOME :D I want vs.net 2005 right now :D this is soooooooo cool :D

[Large]

WOW... this IS AWESOME :D I want vs.net 2005 right now :D this is soooooooo cool :D

Try the express beta's, if you want to see whats coming !

[GatorV]

I want to know if someone could mail me the NetXP Controls, their page has problems and I can't download, thanks in advance!!! :D

PS Thanks for all of the free controls they rock!!!

[ZC]

I want to know if someone could mail me the NetXP Controls, their page has problems and I can't download, thanks in advance!!! :D

PS Thanks for all of the free controls they rock!!!

Sure, what's your e-mail address? (you can PM it to me)

I've got NetXP 3 SP1 (the latest version)

[Matt]

great thread.

[Large]

Here is a free message box control.

Link : Componentgo.com

click the MsgBox link in the menu to see and download the control.

Enjoy ! :D

[MrRogers]

What's up with the visual styles in the file viewer in VB.Net Power Pack? It's like it can't do transparencies.

[Linkinfamous]

No one will probably ever use it, but this is a control that let's you interface to a PICNET rather easily that I (sort of) wrote.

It's called PICdotNET....

...I use it all the time. I can't ever turn the lights in my room on without it :) <points to the place where the light switch used to be, and has been replaced by a small circuit board>

http://picdotnet.8m.com/picdotnet.html

[TridentZero]

Check Out vbAccelerator . It has a few controls here .Net Controls but it is mainly about VB Stuff.

[andy2004]

when is vs.net 2005 gonna be released ?

[Large]

The first quarter of 2005 I believe, I'm soooo looking forward to it ! :happy:

[THE BAT]

Great Links

Thanks

[jhaygood86]

If you want to use LZMA compression in your .NET programs, you can use the LZMASharpTools collection.

The LZMASharp.dll contains the functions needed to manipulate LZMA, with 3 sample programs (2 in C#, 1 in VB .NET) that show how to use its simple manipulation functions. It currently has stream based codecs and a file based codec (pass the filename).

LZMASharpTools is a port of LZMA# SDK from Igor Pavlov. The code is available under the Common Public License and the Lesser General Public License.

[crawling_nanny]

I have developed three freeware controls in C# all are available to download from http://parj.cjb.cc/ . All downloads have sample applications so you can see how the control looks and feels.

1) Customizable Horizontal Progress Bar

2) Circular Progress Bar

3) Info Bar (with color blending animation on mouse-over)

Below are are some screen shots of the controls

[jojoey]

Nice Controls !

[jojoey]

http://www.divil.co.uk/net/controls/

http://www.codeproject.com/Purgatory/Whidb...opertyPanel.asp

http://www.codeproject.com/Purgatory/FireballFramework.asp