DevComponents LLC announced today release of DotNetBar Suite 5.5 a toolbox of 16 powerful integrated components with Office 12/Office 2003/XP/2000, VS.NET 2005 and Windows XP themed look and feel that enables VS.NET developers to create professional user interface with ease.

New release includes addition of Office 12 Style Ribbon Control, Office 12 Style Super Tooltip control and Office 12 style menus and toolbars. With new release of DotNetBar DevComponents is first company to offer latest Office 12 style user interface technology to developers. Applications with large number of commands will greatly benefit by new approach to user interface presentation offered by Ribbon control.

Super tooltips control provides clear and descriptive overview of commands and user interface elements. Images and multiple lines of text can be used on tooltips. 18 predefined colors schemes are offered as well.

DotNetBar Suite 5.5 is compatible with the latest Visual Studio.NET 2005.

DotNetBar Suite 5.5 includes following controls:

- Office 12 Style Ribbon controls
- Office 12 Style Super Tooltips control
- Fully customizable Menus and Toolbars
- Dockable auto-hide windows with Diamond Docking Hints guides and split-view document docking technology
- Tab control with 9 visual styles
- Explorer Bar control
- Side Bar control
- Flat Side Bar control
- Tab Strip control
- Balloon Control
- Alert Control
- Balloon-Tip Control
- Navigation Pane control
- Navigation Bar control
- OneNote style Tab Control
- Multi-Functional Panel Control
- Expandable splitter control

For more information and fully functional trial version please visit our web site at: http://www.devcomponents.com

Multiple licenses discounts and source code available.

We also provide movie tutorials for many DotNetBar components to help developers jump start their usage of DotNetBar. Please see http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/movies.html for more details.