Dialog Workshop.NET

Dialog Workshop .NET

A powerful replacement for the standard .NET dialog components.
Create your own customized Windows common dialogs without writing a line of code! You
can dock your Windows Form or WPF Form to bottom, top, left and/or right of the dialog
box and add your own controls in the standard common dialog. Supported dialogs:
- Open/Save, Vista/Win7-style Open/Save,
- OpenDialog with recent files (MRU) list similar to VB6 Open dialog,
- BrowseForFolder,
- Print,
- Color,
- PageSetup;
- Font;
- Find;
- Replace;
- About;
- Run.
 

Dock your WinForms to the left, right, top or bottom of standard dialog's area.

You can extend your dialogs and add new controls in a dialog window to provide more features for the standard dialogs.

For example, you can add your ownWindows Form (or WPF window hosted in WinForm) with some additional checkboxes, preview pane in open/save dialogs, etc. These docked parts of the dialog are actually Windows Forms. You can specify docked forms both at design and run-time.

Custom dialog box icon and title, initial position.

You can set dialog box title usingTitle property even at run-time. Also you can set dialog's icon usingCustDlgParams.Icon property. You can specify custom startup position: screen center, a form's center, screen's X/Y values, etc.

Customizable dialog box items captions.

You can provide custom texts for all items in your dialogs (3). For example you can replace Open text in the dialog above. UseDlgItemsCaptions property to specify custom strings.

New events: Show, Hide, FileOk, SelectionChanged, etc.

All dialog components haveShow, Hide, AcceptDialog, CancelDialog events. Also all components have dialog-specific events. For example,FolderChanged, SelectionChanged, FileOk, etc. events for Open/Save File dialogs.

Powerful Open/Save dialogs

Many features which make Open/Save dialogs really unique and poweful: extended file listview styles, disabled Delete/Rename commands, customizable PlacesBar, integrated MRU list, etc.

- Extended file listview styles: you can show grid lines, enable/disable "hover" effect, full row seelct mode, etc.
- You can disable Delete and Remove commands in Open/Save dialogs. So you can make your application even more safe: user will not be able to remove and rename anything! Rename/Delete commands are disabled in the context menu and also its not possible to rename/delete an object using keyboard (pressing F2/Del).
- You can show or hide the PlacesBar. Also you can change PlacesBar items captions.
- You can disable context menus in the file list view (both selected item's menu and selected folder's one).
- MRU files list (Recent tab) can be added in the dialog box.
- You can specify file list view style programmatically using DefaultFileListViewStyle and/or EffectiveFileListViewStyle properties.
- Custom context menu/context menu strip can be used as drop-down menu for OK button.

Modeless dialogs

Using special CaModelessDialog component, you can display Windows common dialog as modeless window.

Design-time support

Dialog Designer and dialog preview are available at design-time in Visual Studio.

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