Designbox is a revolutionary new kind of Toolbox that lets you develop and reuse sets of properties and values called Designs. Designbox also includes the Design Gallery window that lets you apply rich Designs to any WinForms control.
Features
The Designbox Tool Window
Your Designbox is a toolbox window that not only stores controls, but also stores sets of property values (called"Designs") that can be automatically applied when you drag-and-drop controls on your Form Designer. This means that you can addfinished, rich content controls directly to your Forms more quickly than ever before!
The Design Gallery
The Design Gallery is the tool window you've been waiting for! Ittracks your selected control on your design surface and shows you previews of designs that can be applied to that class of control. A single click then applies that design to the control. So not only can you create new controls that automatically have preset property values, but you can also apply pre-defined property values with content and style settings to existing controls.
Design = Content + Style
Designs can include values for any control property for any WinForms controls. Which means that you can capture and reuse template-like content Designs that contain structures like images, child controls, and tree nodes. Or you can create style Designs that capture a controls' color, font, and appearance properties, enabling you toadd application styling and theming to any WinForms application!
Shareable Design Palettes
Designbox organizes your Designs into shareable Xml based Design Palettes that you author and maintain. This powerful approach allows you to capture,document, and reuse consistent Design Standards and best-practices personally, or throughout your enterprise. And since Designbox has the ability to serialize any WinForms control to Xml, it opens the door to converting your WinForms applications to WPF and Xaml! Visit our Design Storeto browse for free Community Design Palettes that you can use with Designbox
