WinForms Wizard Control
Create user friendly wizard user interfaces for Windows Forms applications
Wizard Control for WinForms Overview
The Kettic Wizard Control resembles the installation wizards. It is able to help developers to divide a complicated operating process into various simple procedures which allows users of your application easily operate the application. The Kettic Wizard Control is compatible with the Wizard97 and Wizard Aero specifications. In addition, it offers the design time support, predesigned welcome, completion, internal pages, as well as predefined themes support.
Wizard 97 and Wizard Aero Compatibility
The Kettic Wizard Control supports the Wizard97 and Wizard Aero specifications. If developers use this Wizard Control, they can build quite useful wizard in their application for users. Wizard 97 specification is the former standard for wizard design, visual layout, and functionality and has wide application in Windows and plenty of Microsoft products. The Kettic Wizard Control entirely support the Wizard 97 specification and extends form resize functionality. The Aero mode is used to replace the Wizard 97 and incorporates visual updates to match the Windows Aero aesthetics.
Rich Design Time Support in Visual Studio
The Wizard Controls for Windows Forms provide rich design-time support functionality to developers. This feature allows developers easily customize and configure the Wizard controls when design the user interface. For example, it is capable of configuring the wizard mode via rich smart tag menu, editing the collection of wizard pages and elements, dragging and dropping items, applying themes or creating custom themes at design time. It also provides various tools like Visual Style Builder, Element Hierarchy Editor, and Shape Editor to design the user interface for your application.
Rich Appearance Support by ComboBox Control
The Wizard Controls contain rich themes for .NET WinForms developers to create slick user interfaces that have the same appearance of Windows Vista, Office 2007, Outlook, and more. It is easy to switch the themes by changing a property. The Wizard Controls for WinForms UI Design also provides a theme color blending to tweaking the color scheme of a theme. With this feature, developers need not to redo the theme from scratch and could apply the updated color scheme to all WinForms controls. Developers can also build a new custom theme for exact visual interface by using the Visual Style Builder. The Wizard Controls offers a few html tags to display rich text formatting.
Localization Support by Wizard Controls
The Wizard Controls provide the support of localization and right to left writing languages, such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu. The Wizard Controls for WinForms is included in the Kettic UI Controls Suite that fully supports the localization and right to left languages.