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Phil Wright

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• Fatal attraction

  Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 05:38

  Am I the only one that is actually getting some enjoyment from watching the global financial crises? I know I shouldn’t find it quite so fascinating but for some reason I do. Like watching a beautiful tornado just before it smacks you in the face. Just because you know it’s going to hurt doesn’t sto

• Krypton Icon Pack

  Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 10:17

  If you’re building an application using the Krypton controls then you need to add a final polish by using a set of professional icons. Otherwise all that hard work creating a nice looking app is going to waste. To help make this process as easy as possible you can now buy a pack of 265 ico

• VisualHint.com

  Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 03:47

  If you’re looking for Kryptonized controls for date and time entry then take a look at VisualHint.com that have recently added KryptonPalette support. Also offered are a property grid control and other input controls that might interest you. As many of you will already know I am going

• Krypton 3.0.6 Released

  Posted: 08 Oct 2008 at 03:53

  This maintenance release has several major bug fixes and a bonus control added to the Toolkit. Download Link for 3.0.6 Major Bug Fixes - Locking/Unlocking computer causes text to disappear. - Text not drawing at all for some Visual Studio projects. - ComboBox drop down not working on some computers.

• Release inflation

  Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 03:19

  Is it my imagination or is Microsoft releasing technologies faster and faster than ever before? When I was a young developer using Visual C++ it seemed that you could easily know all the technologies at any one time. All you had to learn was a language, a framework and a library (C++, MFC and STL).

• Windows Cloud

  Posted: 03 Oct 2008 at 10:14

  Did you realise that Microsoft are releasing a new operating system in just four weeks that is currently being called Windows Cloud? No, me neither. Steve Ballmer made the announcement at a conference in London on Wednesday. Luckily ‘Cloud’ is just the project name as it gets a snazzier

• Krypton roadmap

  Posted: 02 Oct 2008 at 13:26

  My recent blog post about the WPF adoption caused a couple a few people to ask about the future of Krypton. In particular they wanted to know if I would switch to creating WPF components or stick exclusively with WinForms. Here I hope to clarify my current roadmap. Krypton Roadmap The immediate futu

• KryptonDomainUpDown

  Posted: 01 Oct 2008 at 07:43

  Is there anyone in the world that actually uses the DomainUpDown control that comes with WinForms? It was not until a few days ago I even thought about adding this control to the Toolkit. We already have a numeric up down control and so adding the domain variation is therefore pretty trivial. So her

• WPF adoption

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 10:25

  When WPF was first released I wrote a blog post stating that it would take a little time for it to take off. It has been over two years now and I’ve been proved more right than I expected. I think WPF has great potential and allows some amazing user interfaces to be created. But [...]

• BreadCrumb overflow

  Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 05:37

  If you have a KryptonBreadCrumb instance like the one below then selecting ‘Level 3a’ will cause the drawing to overflow the end of the control. This has now been fixed by adding an overflow button at the start of the crumb trail which allows access to the entries that cannot be shown. S

• Windows 7

  Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 05:44 by Phil Wright

  Microsoft have changed tack with the development of Windows 7 by keeping it very low key. No sneak previews and few hints about what will be inside the next release. After all the hype that went with ‘Longhorn’ I guess that’s not surprising. Few of the ’Longhorn’ promis

• Stackoverflow addict

  Posted: 25 Sep 2008 at 08:28 by Phil Wright

  There cannot be many developers that have not heard about the new Stackoverflow website that launched into public Beta a couple of weeks ago. For those not familiar with the site I would recommend you spend a couple of minutes looking around. Essentially it’s a question and answer site for pro

• Download Stats

  Posted: 24 Sep 2008 at 10:47 by Phil Wright

  I’ve been asked by a couple of Toolkit users about the stats for its usage. These are certainly not secret so I am happy to reveal them. After 24 hours of Version 3.0 being released these are the raw numbers… Downloads: ~4406 Downloaded Bytes: ~112 GB I’m glad there is a dedicated

• Krypton 3.0 Released

  Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 08:16 by Phil Wright

  Krypton 3.0 Released Using the following link to download immediately… Download Krypton 3.0 Release Highlights Krypton Toolkit NEW - KryptonNumericUpDown NEW - KryptonBreadCrumb FIXED - ComboBox bugs Krypton Ribbon NEW - NumericUpDown group element Krypton Navigator NEW - Page Drag and Drop ad

• Krypton 3.0 Beta

  Posted: 15 Sep 2008 at 07:58 by Phil Wright

  Krypton 3.0 Beta Download Download : Krypton299.zip This is a Beta release with an internal version number of 2.9.9 in order to distinguish it from the full release when that happens. Highlights for this release include:- New - KryptonNumericUpDown control New - KryptonBreadCrumb control New - Krypt

• TreeView Drag Drop

  Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 04:30 by Phil Wright

  I’ve just finished creating the new samples for the upcoming Version 3 of Krypton and wanted to show a picture. One of the scenarios I imagine being quite common is dragging and dropping from a TreeView into a Navigator or Workspace instance. So I created a sample that implements just that. Th

• Rounded Indicators

  Posted: 26 Aug 2008 at 11:34 by Phil Wright

  Vista Docking Indicators Just a quick update to show a couple of pictures with a new indicator style. If you are using Visual Studio 2008 under Vista then you will have noticed that the docking indicators are not square anymore. Under Vista it uses rounded indicators so of course we need to provide

• Docking Indicators

  Posted: 25 Aug 2008 at 10:24 by Phil Wright

  Edge Indicators Instead of using solid blocks to represent drag/drop feedback we now have full docking style indicators. Here you can see the mouse over the right control edge indicator. When the mouse is over the indicator it shows a solid blue rectangle indicating where the drop will occur. Cell I

• Workspace CompactFlags

  Posted: 22 Aug 2008 at 07:28 by Phil Wright

  Workspace Hierarchy One unique feature of the KryptonWorkspace control is the hierarchical structure to the layout definition. It means you can easily and quickly create complex layouts for your document area. But this strength is also a potential weakness because moving pages around could cause the

• Instance dragging

  Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 07:28 by Phil Wright

  Instance Dragging The previous post showed that you can drag pages around the KryptonWorkspace control in order to change the layout of the workspace area. We now need to extend this another level because in the real world you may want to drag pages between different control instances. As the Krypto