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Better Thumbnail Browser

Better Thumbnail Browser

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Thumbnail viewing and loading control for .NET Windows Forms.
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  • Better Thumbnail Browser is a thumbnail viewing and loading control for .NET Windows Forms
  • View and automatically display thumbnails of images, graphic files, documents, video files etc.
  • Compatible with: Visual Studio 2012, 2010, 2008, 2005, with full designer support.
  • For C#, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), managed C++, and other CLI languages.
  • Compatible with .NET 4.5, .NET 4, .NET 3.5, .NET 3, .NET 2, and newer. Supports .NET Client Profile.
  • Runs on Windows 8, 7, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, both 32-bit and 64-bit.
  • Native look and feel, always uses the current system theme (including Aero support)
  • Saves development time.
  • Easy to use and well-documented.
  • Written in pure managed C# code. Fast and light-weight.
  • No dependencies.
  • Inherits from mature Better ListView control
  • The assembly is FIPS-compliant, CLS-compliant,digitally signed and strongly named.
  • Easy royalty-free XCOPY deployment. Single DLL file that has just 250kB~ when compressed.

Because Better Thumbnail Browser inherits from feature-rich Better ListView, it is feature-packed and supports many advanced features that no other thumbnail control can offer (for example: Multi-column sorting, Multi-line text, Groups, Three-state check boxes and many more).

Cut development time by up to 50%

The biggest advantage of Better Thumbnail Browser is that saves you valuable development time.

For many projects where GUI is important, Better Thumbnail Browser can very significantly reduce the development time, up to by about 50%.

The complex logic of loading, displaying and viewing the thumbnails is done automatically for you.

Furthermore, you will save time thanks to many inbuilt features that work out of the box, such as sorting or item reordering.

Also, full designer support allows you to do many customizations with zero code.

Finally, Better Thumbnail Browser comes with numerous samples with full source code, and withexcellent documentation with examples.

High-quality source code available for purchase

In case you require a full source code, it can be purchased as part of the site or enterprise license.

The Better Thumbnail Browser source code consists of a single C# project without any external dependencies, it is clean, readable, fully commented and readily extensible.

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