User interface development is a time consuming and often frustrating part of application development for both large and small companies alike. To create a professional UI, developers must spend countless hours arranging controls on a form, align them correctly, position labels, consider form resolution issues and when specifications change, they must start the process over again.
At the end of the day, pixel oriented form design is a pain-in-the-neck process and though development methodologies have radically improved over the years, the foundations of form design have remained in the dark ages. It is for these very reasons that we created the XtraLayoutControl and sought to bring sanity and consistency to an otherwise mundane task.
The XtraLayoutControl empowers you and your team and allows you to create elegant UIs in the shortest possible time. From auto-arrangement of individual controls to resolution independence, the XtraLayoutControl delivers a comprehensive form design feature set. The XtraLayoutControl will dramatically reduce the number of UI modifications you need to make over time and thus the number of costly rebuilds. It is the only suite in the market that allows runtime layout customization so that end-users can reorder controls via simple drag and drop operations.
Key Features include the following (learn more here):
- End User Customization
- Screen Resolution Independence
- Intuitive Layout Rules
- Runtime Customization Form
- Expandable Groups
- Splitters
- Themes and Skins
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- Data Aware and Unbound Mode
- Straightforward Design-time Experience
- Auto-Alignment
- Tabbed Pages
- Background Image Support
- Printing and Control Persistence
- Customizable Spacing and Padding
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 Data Editors (the XtraEditors library is included) |
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