SandBox - How?

[Timothy V]

Hi,
I was wondering how people create these controls, found at
http://www.divil.co.uk/net/controls/.

Is there a tutorial somewhere that can teach the basics?

Thanks guys,

Tim.

[Dave]

It's Win32 programming at it's finest ;)

They use Interop to make calls that aren't available, intrinsically, in the .NET framework. These calls are documented but in the
context of a C++ user:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...e/windowui.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframewo...l/win32map.asp

Using COM Interoperability you can port the structures and functions into the managed realm with relative ease (in most cases):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...COMInterop.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...asp?frame=true

The controls that they make, such as the drag/drop toolbars/main menu probably use the Rebar control, but they may also be fully
managed. It's hard to tell:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ebar/rebar.asp

Overall, this stuff is probably possible in completely managed code, but you'd be reinventing the wheel in many cases:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...evelopment.asp

--
Dave Sexton
dave@www..jwaonline..com
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"Timothy V" <tr****@msn.com> wrote in message news:u7**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi,
I was wondering how people create these controls, found at http://www.divil.co.uk/net/controls/.

Is there a tutorial somewhere that can teach the basics?

Thanks guys,

Tim.

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

As Tim pointed it's done with a lot of work by either P/invoking or just
drawing them using GDI+

I t hink I have a couple of links of how to create a control from scrash.
let me know if you want it.

Also notice that IIRC 2.0 will have support for themes ala sandbar

cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

"Timothy V" <tr****@msn.com> wrote in message
news:u7**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi,
I was wondering how people create these controls, found at
http://www.divil.co.uk/net/controls/.

Is there a tutorial somewhere that can teach the basics?

Thanks guys,

Tim.

[Publicjoe]

Hi

Take a look at this article with code

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/csoutlookbar.asp

Hope this helps

Publicjoe

C# Tutorial at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/tut.html

C# Ebook at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/samples/ebook.html

VB Tutorial at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/vbnet/vbnet.html

VB Ebook at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/vbnet/samples/ebook.html

Mirrors at http://dowhileloop.com/publicjoe/ and

http://publicjoe.justbe.com/

"Timothy V" <tr****@msn.com> wrote in message
news:u7**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi,
I was wondering how people create these controls, found at
http://www.divil.co.uk/net/controls/.

Is there a tutorial somewhere that can teach the basics?

Thanks guys,

Tim.