WPF's unified programming model, language, and framework enable interface designers and developers to separate their work, given the power of WPF and always a developer's focus, and share the third-party controls that are needed for WPF project development, including the industry's most acclaimed grid controls, chart controls , docking window, and text editor.
Grid control
1. Mindscape WPF Property Grid
This table control is a 100% native WPF tabular control, a commercial sub-control in the Mindscape company's WPF elements user interface package, which is currently updated to the 5.1 version, and the new version has a significant improvement in the performance and charting aspects of the attribute table. You can quickly switch between out-of-the-box themes.
Mindscape WPF property grid style style
Advantage:
5 Open-Box themes available
Comprehensive functionality covering the property grid
Multiple built-in editors to customize the editor
Quickly search, filter, and categorize
2. Actipro Property Grid
Actipro (Actiprosoftware) was the first company to publish a WPF business control, as a child control within the company's interface package, WPF Studio, in the Actipro property The grid makes it easy to add or delete items, apply custom sorting and filtering, and is a highly flexible attribute table control.
Advantage:
A powerful native Windows Forms property grid is introduced with support for ComponentModel properties
Using XAML supported by WPF bindings to define Properties
Built-in multiple property editors to integrate well with WPF products
Product updates are fast and can be well integrated with the latest VS2012, support. Applications with more than net4.0
Chart
1. Visifire for WPF
A set of visual toolset that supports the current mainstream charts and gauges types, charts are brilliant, easy to operate, with a large user base to create dynamic charts for mobile, web and desktop applications, and the chart control can be embedded in any Web page .
Advantage:
Stable performance with strong interactivity and brilliant results
A simple API that can be adapted to draw a chart in WPF
Real-time display charts and gauges online updates
Standalone server-side technology can be used with ASP, ASP. NET, SharePoint, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Python, Ruby or simple HTML
2. Chart FX for WPF
With products from the FX software company, which has 15 of experience in table development , the chart has an enterprise-class data visualization standard, and Charts FX for WPF has been very innovative in both visualization and user interfaces, and has now been updated to chart FX for WPF version 8.1.
Advantage:
Rich chart types, universal charts, and polar charts for powerful charting techniques
Quickly create a variety of gorgeous complex charts
Charts are customizable and XAML-based
A groundbreaking 3D engine that allows users to manipulate graphical elements at will, and intuitive UI allows users to analyze data more intuitively
3. ComponentOne Chart for WPF
It is a sub-control under the ComponentOne Studio for WPF interface package, is also the most comprehensive charting feature on the market, 12 built-in themes, 22 color palettes, more than 40 charts or instrument types, has now passed the 10, 000 + multi-point testing ensures excellent performance.
Advantage:
Rich chart style and color dazzle
Easy and efficient mapping, click the mouse to complete
Chart rendering is fast and stable.
Docking window
1, Avalondock
Avalondock is an open source WPF Control Library, which is the best choice outside of commercial controls, and is used primarily to create docking windows similar to the VS system, now out to version 2.0, because open source software uses more people, so it has a huge market base.
Advantage:
Open source
Support for MVVM design
All content can be custom-styled
Support for Windows Forms controls
2, RadControls Docking
. NET under the most complete Business Toolkit radcontrols for WPF a child control, with a similar to VS interface, provides two simplified and complex interface, click the mouse can switch, can also customize the style, fast save, easy to reuse.
Tabbed Document Support
Advantage:
Provides a class VS interface with dockable windows, floating and hidden panes
Tabbed documents to maximize the use of the user interface to easily implement group movement from a document
Simplified and complex two-interface support, click to make a jump between the two types of interface
Fully customizable Guide
Can save and load custom layouts for reuse of layouts
Text Editor
1, Syntaxeditor
Microsoft. NET private Vendor Actipro Company's products, is a powerful code syntax validation control, the use of cutting-edge code editing technology, but also has a strong code editing capabilities, the function is more comprehensive, for the enhancement of the IDE application is a good choice.
Advantage:
All the functions of the Code Editor in Vs.net
Timely technical updates, support for NET 4.0 and above, and the latest VS2012
2, Avalonedit
SharpDevelop 4.0 Syntax editor, you can now view the source code on the CodeProject. Avalonedit contains all the functions required by the code compiler, such as syntax highlighting, smart hints, etc., providing many shortcut key operations, easy to use, code loading is very fast, almost no delay, but the current stability has yet to be improved.
Advantage:
Open source
Faster code loading
Full-Featured, multi-shortcut key support, easy to operate
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