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Following this question from last year. I am checking two open source ribbon controls:
Fluent
Odyssey
Do you have any experience (good or bad) with any of them? or perhaps know of another open source ribbon control?
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After using both of them, I gave up Odyssey cause it had a lot of bugs. I then switched to Fluent and I have only good words to say about it.
I've been trialling the WPF toolkit. Bear in mind - it's not open source per se - you don't get the source code. However, I believe it is free for use etc.
It's reasonably easy to use and has some reasonable commanding support. The documentation is not particularly in-depth, but it looks good - same as the ribbon used in Office 2007 etc. and has a few themes.
I'd say give it a look before spending money on a third party commercial ribbon control.
there is one included in the WPF toolkit dont know how good/bad it it. we use one that we bought.
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I am using ExcelDna and C# to build a suite of tools. Part of that will be forms from which I'd want to user to select cells/ranges from the workbook.
I've got the Application.InputBox route working...but it just doesn't look as cool...
I haven't read many good things about Excel's RefEdit control, and see what many have in the past written workarounds, often in (shudder) VBA or VB.Net.
However, none of these seem to be recent... What is the best approach/control for RefEdit functionality on a form run via ExcelDna (if applicable)?
The RefEdit sample project of GitHub explores different ways of dealing with the threading when showing a form from an Excel add-in, which is the main issue with making a RefEdit control for your .NET add-in.
Check this page for links to various other implementations: https://github.com/Excel-DNA/ExcelDna/wiki/Links-about-RefEdit
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Due to the nature of the keywords, I find it difficult to easily google this. I want to implement a "help" item on the menu bar that will launch some basic documentation for the user to read, after I have written it. Are there any standards or libraries I should be aware about before diving into this aspect? The program incorporating the "help" functionality will be a C# WPF Desktop application.
Example from MS Word :
I'm sure they don't reinvent the wheel every time they use the help function, and I don't want to either. Where can I look to find something open source that is similar to this functionality and maybe some general guidelines on how to write help for non-technical and technical users?
I think that following links should be useful for you.
Using F1 Help (CHM format) With WPF
how to create a chm help file for WPF Application? http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/ce323cdb-5f9c-49d0-910e-81d2bba51d4d/context-sensitive-help-in-wpf?forum=wpf
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I need something to create 3D surface charts in ASP.Net. Could anyone recommend a 3rd party component set? I also do not want to use Giga Soft's, Nevron's, or ComponentOne's components. I am open to non-free solutions.
This is a good question.
I have performed a search/watch for my company few months ago and it is a cruel lack.
Personnaly I would not go for expensive third party solutions as they are seriously overpriced IMHO. Most of them do not give enough interactivity and are full of flourish while lacking the real features that one could expect from a decent 3D Surface.
I've ended up using ILNumerics which is fully open source (and even contributed a bit to the project). It's Winforms, but you could port it to ASP by tweaking a bit.
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I suggest Dundas Charting because of its stability and easy to use system
It provide different kinds of charts and work great with / without SQL Server Reporting Services, it has dynamic and static reports so that you user can build his report on the fly with your current reports.
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I want to visualize components and connections of a HVAC system with .NET/C#.
The diagrams will just include a few different components and their connections.
They do not have to comply to any formal standard and should look alike the diagrams attached. In addition the user should be able to select a single component/connection (so that I can display additional data).
Which free drawing/charting library would you use and why?
Thanks for your time.
Julian,
Please check out GraphSharp: http://graphsharp.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx
Small/open source C# library on Git renders to HTML5 (You can modify to render to for example WPF or Winform as well)
https://gridwizard.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/simple-c-library-to-render-graph-to-flowchart
I would try to host VS studio designer in application , how you can host workflow designer for instance. Read about VS extensibilities
It doesn't get more free than System.Drawing...
Seriously, given your requirements I'm not sure you need a framework or library. The most complex part of the system you describe is drawing the lines between components. If that doesn't have to get fancy (automatic layout, detecting where the lines overlay other lines/boxes) then you can probably roll the whole thing custom.
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Do you know any freely available WPF component for using masks (regex) in textbox?
I think you will find what you need in this control library: http://www.codeplex.com/WPFDeveloperTools
Look for 'FilteredTextBox' amongst all the other useful controls. I don't think it does regex, but it should be able to filter just about everything you need, and since you will have the source, you should find it easy to enhance.
As a bonus, it is free and open source on CodePlex.
You can also find a nice blog post about how to go about implementing this yourself here: http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/masked-textbox/
Extended WPF Toolkit has a MaskedTextBox similar to the one that was in WinForms. As with the old one, this doesn't actually support RegExes, but has a subset of useful masks.
Oh, and it's on NuGet, which is nice.
Coding Monk has a good TextboxEditMask Behavior. You can either download the source code or just use the dlls.