Advanced ListBox control for C# and VB NET

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Highly customizable appearance

Customize the appearance of every control part using many color and format styles

Customize the appearance of every control part: items, checkboxes, scrollbars, control background and border
Different color styles for every state of items: disabled, focused, hovered, normal and selected state
Styles can be inherited from the parent control
Option to use textures as background and color schemes for each item separately
Determine the space between items
Partial or Full Transparency for each control part
Customizable border with three shapes and control over visibility of each border side
Gradient fill with 6 pre-build fill styles plus flat style (no gradient fill)
Office 2007 fading effect with five speed levels
Theme support
Rendering interface with Visual Styles: Vista, XP and Classic
Watermarks

General Behavior

Design-time support with WYSIWYG functionality
Ability to present custom animation along with process progress during execution of any operation
Maintain high performance while loading and updating your data
Customizable ToolTips
Fix specific items to top or bottom control side
Permissions over item reordering, drag drop operations, selection, hover selection, editing

Advanced Drag and Drop operations

Use built-in or create your own custom drag drop operation

Choose whether items can be dragged or dropped
Determine whether you will use standard or custom drag drop operation
Predefined - items are reordered in standard way showing the reorder position mark
Custom - create your own drag drop operation
Support for all standard drag drop events
Option to show or hide reorder position mark
Drag Drop items from/to other controls

Rich Content

Create rich data presentation in custom layouts using various objects and custom controls

Populate the item content using text, images, hyperlinks, checkboxes and custom controls and arrange them in custom layouts
Option to create a data template which can be used by all items
Advanced formatting options by use of XML tags
A table based formatting of the item content, with which a complex data can be presented in a single item
Every content element can have their own color and format styles
Multiple images at different places in single content
Multiple custom controls at different places in the single content
Content alignment for every element
Place various elements in paragraphs and tables
Content can be shown in multiple lines or paragraphs

Selection

Manage item selection in more efficient way

Four ways to select items: None, One, MiltiSimple and MultiExtended
Option to preserve selection while doing other operations
Ability to have multiple selection using keyboard: CTRL, SHIFT and SPACE
Ability to select item while mouse cursor hovers over it

Searching

Locate the specific item using manual or automatic keyword search

Determine whether prefix or exact match will be used
Use automatic search whenever a key(s) is pressed
Use manual search using several methods to locate specific item

Sorting

Choose how items are sorted by using built-in or custom sorting

Sort items in ascending or descending order
Choose among three built-in sort types: integer, double and string
Option to create custom sort operations

Advanced Filtering

Use many options to filter the current item list

Filter can accept multiple values and performs data filtering by AND, OR criteria
Filter can be applied to four item properties: Key, TagString, Text and Value
Filter can work with prefix and exact match

Scrollbars

Manage the behavior of scrollbars

Option to show or hide horizontal and vertical scrollbars separately
Determine whether the control is scrollable
Choose how current view of the control is scrolled: per pixel or per row
Determine the scrolling speed of mouse wheel from 5 supported values
Option to set the position of scrollbar thumb manually

Events

Control the flow of operations using large number of events

Item selection events
Focus related events
Item add/remove events
Item check box changes events
Editing events
Drag Drop events
Scrollbar events
Rich content related events

Serialization

Use built-in serialization to load/save your data in files, memory streams or databases

Support for serialization in files
Support for serialization in streams
Support for serialization in databases

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To demonstrate the possibilites and features implemented in LidorSystems components, you can download and test the following sample applications. Each sample is provided as a stand alone executable so it can be easily downloaded and tested. All samples are included with our products and are provided with complete source code.

Sample applications		Size
	Custom Catalog Demonstrates how custom objects like text, images, hyperlinks and custom controls can be included in IntegralUI ListBox. Data is presented in two views, Simple and Extended, which shows how complex data formatting template can be applied for every item using various XML tags like tables, paragraphs, styles etc. The sample demonstrates also using wordwrap, three-state checkboxes and custom sort operations.	395 KB

	Messenger Demonstrates how custom messenger application can be constructed by using special features of IntegralUI ListBox control. Various XML tags are used to build a different content for every item. Text are shown in different fonts and sizes, images are placed on custom locations, content alignment and table cell merging is also demonstrated. Items have different content in collapsed and expanded state.	396 KB

Built Using

Visual C# .NET 2005

Compatible Containers

Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2005
.NET Framework v3.5
.NET Framework v3.0
.NET Framework v2.0

System Requirements

Disk Space: 4MB
Memory: 32MB
Software: .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
Operating System: Windows 2000 or higher

Can be deployed on

Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

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Below is a complete history of this product releases.

Date	Version	Description
Sep 21, 2011	v2.2	NEW: Option to embedd new control: RatingControl which can use custom images to show rating values, includes star image as default NEW: Option to fix items on top or bottom side which can act like header and footer NEW: A new constructor which accepts strings and creates a default item with text NEW: Serialization of images from ImageList to XML file is now supported FIX: SetScrollPos and speed for Mouse Wheel now works in ListBox FIX: When list control is disabled and enabled again, the scroll bar also changes its enabled state FIX: When vertical scrollbar becomes hidden, no longer resets the scrolling view FIX: Speed for Mouse Wheel is now working as it should
Dec 29, 2010	v2.1	NEW: Row-based and pixel-based scrolling enabled NEW: New Key property in ObjectEventArgs, used to uniquely identify different objects NEW: Fully compatible with Visual Studio 2010 NEW: The Key which specifies the text from XML content is carried with the editing events NEW: ItemObjectClicked and ContentObjectClicked events now carry also the MouseButtons NEW: Mouse wheel supported in ComboBox, ListControl and NumericUpDown controls FIX: When a click is made on any of scrollbar arrows or thumb it no longer raises AfterLabelEdit event FIX: ComboButtons changes from thier editor are not applied to its parent control FIX: GetScrollPos now returns the correct position of scrollbar FIX: EnsureVisible now works also with pixel-based scrolling FIX: Now when using KeySearchMode the current view is scrolled to show the found item
May 12, 2010	v2.0	NEW: Great performance improvement during data load and control layout update NEW: Partially visible controls remain active NEW: XML attributes - assemblypath and resource for <img> tag, used to get references from emebedded resources - selectedtextcolor for <style> tag, used for changing the color of text when selected - <r> tag for regular font - id attribute for most tags, used to identify specific object NEW: Option to separately show/hide the scrollbars NEW: CurrentList property, represents a flat list of all items that are currently visible and filtered NEW: Alignment of expand box, check box, state image and item icon NEW: EnsureVisible with option to choose the item position NEW: ItemSelectionChanged even which notifies when item changes its selection NEW: Option to edit items created with rich content. Also editing of specific text part NEW: UpdateCurrentView, a new method with which only objects in current display area of the control are updated. Efficient for example when specific item changes its visibility or to automatically resize the item height when contained control changes its size NEW: Margin, a new property in format style of the item, with which you can change the space between other items. Now every item can have different distance from other items FIX: Scrollbar with size equal to zero no longer throws an error FIX: During navigation when disabled items are present, the navigation is no longer blocked FIX: When SelectionMode is changed all selection is cleared FIX: ToolTip background is no longer transparent when FillStyle is set to Flat or BackColor and BackFadeColor are equal FIX: Keyboard navigation when there are some disabled items function properly FIX: Prevention of item selection can be done from BeforeSelect event when SelectionMode is set to One FIX: When ItemSpacing is set to 0, the bottom line of item border no longer overlaps with the top border of the next item FIX: The position of mouse cursor (Hand) is also changed, when item or subitem content is vertically centered FIX: When vertical alignment is used for rich content, the control is also vertically aligned FIX: When tables are used and styles are precreated using <style> tag, accesing the styles is possible thorugh id value
December 15, 2009	v1.2	NEW: 8 new built-in controls which can be used as a standalone and inside list control using XML tags: CheckBox, ComboBox, DateTimePicker, ListControl, MonthCalendar, NumericUpDown, ProgressBar, TextControl NEW: Advanced filter which allows data to be filtered by multiple values using AND, OR criteria and exact or prefix match NEW: XML Serialization for controls and images NEW: Improved performance during load process NEW: ApplyFocusStyle, a property which enables/disables FocusStyle for items. Useful during multi-selection NEW: Option to create XML content with images embedded in resource files NEW: Edit when using XML tags for text in different locations (automatic and programmatically) NEW: LabelEditStyle for customization of edit box during item content editing NEW: PreserveVisiblity, a property used to preserve visibility of items when required FIX: Items with height larger than current display area of its parent control are shown FIX: Resource management optimization when using images FIX: CPU usage when animating images is optimized FIX: The appearance of underlined text is fixed FIX: With ItemHighlightType set to None or when all items are disabled, the focus item doesn't appear FIX: Other minor bugs
February 10, 2009	v1.1	NEW: Option for Custom controls to remain visible during scrolling NEW: Support for custom animated gifs in every item with control over animation NEW: Option to manually stop the fading effect FIX: Content property accepts plain text FIX: UnFormattedText property returns non-formatted text from the Content property FIX: Item content is shifted correctly during expand/scroll FIX: Every image used from a ImageList is disposed when it is no longer needed FIX: When there are more than one references to the same image object from Image, SelectedImage, LargeImage or StateImage property, the referenced image from the first object is no longer disposed by other objectsd FIX: Font style tags now can be used without problem inside the font tag FIX: EnsureVisible method now works properly and it is added to every list control FIX: Other minor bug fixes
October 15, 2008	v1.0	First release

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