Any free UI controls? I mean real free controls.

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RealCat - 20 Jun 2008 05:47 GMT

A few years ago, when the .NET version was still 1.1, there was a UI
controls library called Magic Library. It was free, but now it's gone
commercial.

I'd like to add some UI eye candies for my freewares but don't need
them that much to create them spending my time. I'd rather enhance the
program itself. So I decided to search Google for those things with a
keyword like ".NET free UI controls". But all that came out was
commercial components that accidentally had the word "free" on the
page (like "free trial").

Is there any free UI controls except those came from .NET framework?
I'd buy those commercial UI components if I were writing a commercial
application that I can earn money from, but these are freewares that
I'm writing.

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Fernando Gómez - 20 Jun 2008 16:57 GMT

> A few years ago, when the .NET version was still 1.1, there was a UI
> controls library called Magic Library. It was free, but now it's gone
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> application that I can earn money from, but these are freewares that
> I'm writing.

There are many articles at CodeProject.com, many of them are new or
enhanced controls. You ought to check it out.

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Patrick B. - 20 Jun 2008 20:23 GMT

The Krypton Toolkit is free, and also happens to be mind-blowingly awesome:

http://www.componentfactory.com/

(The Ribbon and Navigator are not free.)

A long time ago, I bookmarked a forum thread with links to free
controls. I haven't checked it out recently. I can't vouch for any of
the controls listed. But here is the link:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=184652

And here is one other thing:

http://www.codeplex.com/ASCENDNET

And as someone else already said, CodeProject is full of free controls.

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Fernando Gómez - 20 Jun 2008 21:16 GMT

> The Krypton Toolkit is free, and also happens to be mind-blowingly awesome:
>
> http://www.componentfactory.com/
>
> (The Ribbon and Navigator are not free.)

As for the Ribbon, this is something nice.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/toolbars/WinFormsRibbon.aspx

Regards.

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RealCat - 21 Jun 2008 05:48 GMT

On Jun 21, 5:16 am, Fernando Gómez <fernando.a.gome...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > The Krypton Toolkit is free, and also happens to be mind-blowingly awesome:
>
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>
> Regards.

Thank you for the information!

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