James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience of over half a million unique developers. In July '08 James left his job as Head of Development at a digital agency in London to focus his energies on developerFusion full-time.
A major disadvantage of using VB is that it is next to impossible to create dockable windows or menus like those in Office 2000. ActiveBar 2 is one solution which should make this process simple.
Many readers will have used the VB Accelerator Rebar control which is great for creating IE style toolbars, but still lacks features such as customization, animations, and docking. This control boasts a wide range of features, from a 'Unique interactive designer that works directly on your forms', which allows you to create menus, toolbars, tabbed toolbars, shortcut-bars and status bars. Toolbars and menus are dockable, floating, popup, fixed and detachable, and also features Office 2000 personalized menus, quick customization and flyout tools. However, does it match up to these wonderful claims?
A fully functional UI - in VB!
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