This software allows adding various design elements such as gradient backgrounds, images, videos, and text to Windows forms. It also offers customization options like adjusting opacity, color balance, hue, adding emboss, and drop-shadow. Additionally, it enables creating impressive animations and roll-over effects in run-time.
ActiveFinish is a sensational software that allows you to design the surface of a .Net Winforms control without ever having to leave the Visual Studio IDE. This software enables you to add a gradient background, an image, text elements, and even a video to your projects with ease. Additionally, you can position, rotate, and stretch each element individually, or as a collective layer. Amend the opacity, color balance, hue, emboss, or simply add a drop-shadow.
At run-time, you can use C# or VB.Net to adjust any element or effect property to create stunning animation and roll-over effects. Even better, you can add an unlimited* number of Elements such as Image, Text, Shape, Video, or complex objects to your .NET Windows Forms Control surface at either design-time or run-time.
Use the mouse to position, size, rotate, and edit the elements in a familiar graphics editing app style editor featuring unlimited undo / redo levels. Additionally, group elements in a Layer and then position, size, and rotate them together. Take advantage of an unlimited* number of effects to a layer and adjust Elements and Effect properties using easy-to-use controls such as sliders.
All Elements and Effects are plugins, which makes the framework extensible. The software comes with 14 Element plugins, and 19 Effect plugins, which are abundant for most design projects. With the image element plugin, you can select from an image resource, image list or icon, and when you've made your choice, choose from available sizes and bit-depths as opposed to being limited as is often the norm.
All elements that contain a color property like the path gradient rectangle use the new color picker with an alpha channel adjustment slider. Further, all Elements and Effects are objects, so their properties can be altered at run-time to create cool animation and run-time effects.
For anyone wondering, the free Express Edition of the software comes with limitations, so it's important to see the website for full details. To summarize, there's no need to invest your time and money in WPF, Winforms has a second wind and ActiveFinish takes it to a new level.
At run-time, you can use C# or VB.Net to adjust any element or effect property to create stunning animation and roll-over effects. Even better, you can add an unlimited* number of Elements such as Image, Text, Shape, Video, or complex objects to your .NET Windows Forms Control surface at either design-time or run-time.
Use the mouse to position, size, rotate, and edit the elements in a familiar graphics editing app style editor featuring unlimited undo / redo levels. Additionally, group elements in a Layer and then position, size, and rotate them together. Take advantage of an unlimited* number of effects to a layer and adjust Elements and Effect properties using easy-to-use controls such as sliders.
All Elements and Effects are plugins, which makes the framework extensible. The software comes with 14 Element plugins, and 19 Effect plugins, which are abundant for most design projects. With the image element plugin, you can select from an image resource, image list or icon, and when you've made your choice, choose from available sizes and bit-depths as opposed to being limited as is often the norm.
All elements that contain a color property like the path gradient rectangle use the new color picker with an alpha channel adjustment slider. Further, all Elements and Effects are objects, so their properties can be altered at run-time to create cool animation and run-time effects.
For anyone wondering, the free Express Edition of the software comes with limitations, so it's important to see the website for full details. To summarize, there's no need to invest your time and money in WPF, Winforms has a second wind and ActiveFinish takes it to a new level.
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Version 1.1.0.0: This is the first release
Version 1.0.0.0: This is the first release