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Group Box WinForms Control in C#.NET

The KetticGroupBox WinForms control is a group box component for .NET applications. This GroupBox control is used to hold a single radio buttons group and contains advanced styling options for the users to customize the style of their applications. However, the KetticGroupBox control has the limitation that is not capable of scrolling, which is supported by KetticPanel WinForms control. To use the GroupBox control, we shall include the Kettic.WinForms.UI namespace in our .NET projects.

Layout Styling Options of Group Box

To customize the style and appearance of group box, we shall use the various styling options included in the KetticGroupBox control. The following are the brief list of significant KetticGroupBox layout styling options.

GroupBoxStyle, the GroupBoxStyle styling option defines the Standard and Office styles in KetticGroupBoxStyle enumeration.
HeaderAlignment, the header alignment option allows the users to select each of the valid value, Near, Center, and Far. The HeaderAlignment enumeration defines this layout styling option.
HeaderPosition, the header position option allows the users to choose each of the valid values, Top, Left, Bottom, and Right. And the HeaderPosition enumeration defines this layout styling option.
HeaderMargin, this layout styling option defines the header margin.
FooterVisibility, this layout styling option defines the footer visibility with the default setting, Collapsed.

In addition, there are more styling options for customizing the appearance of Header and Footer by using the KetticGroupBox control.

HeaderImageAlignment, this option is able to align the image in the header in group box
FooterImageAlignment, this option is able to align the image in the footer in group box
HeaderText, this option is used to set the text of the header
FooterText, this option is used to set the text of the footer
HeaderTextAlignment, this option is able to align the text in header
FooterTextAlignment, this option is able to align the text in Footer
HeaderTextImageRelation, this option is used to set the relative position of header text and image in the header.
FooterTextImageRelation, this option is used to set the relative position of header text and image in the footer.

The above layout styling options are predefined properties in the GroupBox control. When the users want to customize the KetticGroupBox control, they are able to use the UI Style Designer to change any property of the control.

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