Xceed SmartUI for .NET offers 10 visual controls for creating modern and user-friendly WinForms apps with support for WinXP, Office XP, and Office 2003 themes. The controls include menus, toolbars, treeviews, and task panes.
One of the biggest advantages of Xceed SmartUI for .NET is that it comes with an outstanding level of flexibility, particularly with respect to the look and feel of its controls. This tool uses a strong and lightweight core control that minimizes resource usage and ensures that user interfaces built with it are at extremely high speeds and free from glitches.
With Xceed SmartUI for .NET, you can configure controls entirely through a real-time WYSIWYG designer, which lets you add items to your controls to see how they will look without the need to compile and run your project. The software comes with many other unique features that make it ideal for creating user interfaces, particularly for .NET Windows Forms.
The latest version of Xceed SmartUI for .NET also includes support for Microsoft Active Accessibility 2.0, resulting in Section 508 compliance. This means that SmartUI controls operate as Active Accessibility servers, exposing your SmartItems' type, name, current location, and state. You can also enjoy navigation features that cover both spatial (up, down, left, right) and logical (next, previous, parent, first child, last child) of the appropriate elements.
Another significant advantage of Xceed SmartUI for .NET is its centralized architecture that makes it very easy to deploy since it requires only two compact DLLs that are less than 500K in total. Therefore, the Xceed SmartUI for .NET's runtime has a relatively small footprint, making your application straightforward to deploy.
Finally, the real-time WYSIWYG designer in Xceed SmartUI for .NET provides you with instant visual feedback, enabling you to entirely configure your controls and see precisely how they will look without the need for a lengthy compile+run phase. This feature can save developers a lot of time and significantly streamline the user interface development process.
In summary, Xceed SmartUI for .NET is an excellent software tool for creating modern, user-friendly Windows Forms applications. Its flexibility, real-time WYSIWYG designer, and small footprint make it a necessary tool for developers looking to save time and resources.
Version 3.3: Section 508 compliance through support for Microsoft Active Accessibility 2.0. This means that SmartUI controls act as Active Accessibility servers, exposing information such as the name, the type, the location and the current state of SmartItems. Also provided is spatial and logical navigation.
Version 3.1: N/A