Toolbars are the main building blocks of your application’s navigation system. They are also the base for main menus and status bars (specialized toolbars). The primary benefit of a "universal" building block is that once you learn how to integrate one toolbar type, the same concept applies to the other visual elements of the product.

Help Topic: Bars | Help Topic: Bar Containers | Video: Create a Floating Bar and Different Containers | Examples: Toolbars

Almost every application is expected to have a main menu. With DXBars, creating the main menu is as easy as creating any other toolbar. Main menus can be customized in the same manner and they support the same features as regular toolbars. They usually have a different painting style and sub-menu items don't display dropdown glyphs when in main menus. There are also a few differences in default settings - main menus are initially stretched to fit container size and they don't display the drag thumb.

Video: Create Bars with Submenus

If your end-users have worked with any Microsoft Office applications in the past, they will feel right at home with DXBars. The traditional toolbar system is now the standard of this type of UI. The DXBars library implements this standard, offering your end-users powerful and easy-to-use means of runtime customization.

Help Topic: Customization Window | Help Topic: Customizing Bars and Bar Items

DXBars for Silverlight allows you to create context menus. These popup menus can then be bound to any control on a form.

Video: Associate a Popup Menu with a Control | Examples: Popup Menus

Our Silverlight Toolbar-Menu system ships with multiple built-in bar item types including Buttons, Check Buttons, Split Buttons, Submenus, Integrated Data Editors, Static Text, Link Containers and Toolbar Lists.

Help Topic: The List of Bar Items and Links | Video: Create Button Items and Separators | Video: Embed Editors | Examples: Create Bar Items