What You Can Expect from the Layout Control

The XtraLayoutControl represents a radical new way to develop and maintain applications with highly evolved and complex interfaces. It is both a developer productivity tool and an end-user customization tool.

Users often have use for only a small portion of the power an application provides. This small portion, however, varies significantly from one user to another. This results in applications that have extremely complex data entry screens with little or no customization ability for the user. In other words, a user's screen is often cluttered by controls that have little or no use within a given organization.

The extensive customization features of the XtraLayoutControl give you all the tools you will need to combat UI "bloat" - and it will place power back into the hands of each individual user - in a manner that has never been available before in any programming environment. This is accomplished by allowing users to layout and manage their own UI - as their needs dictate - in a manner that suits their business requirements best - without seeking assistance from programmers or programmer oriented tools.

Key features include the following:

• End-user Layout Customization (Animation)
• Data-bound Operation Mode (Details)
• Layout Converter is Available. You can easily convert an existing manually-created layout into a LayoutControl and vice versa.
• Resolution Independence
• Straightforward Design-Time Layout Customization (Animation)
• Intuitive Layout Customization Rules
• Auto-aligned Labels
• Customization Form (Screenshot)
• Built-in Context Menu (Screenshot)
• Tabbed Pages (Animation)
• Expandable Groups (Screenshot)
• Anchored Background Images (Details)
• Empty Space Items (Animation)
• Splitter Items (Screenshot)
• An easy way to create multi-lingual applications. If you need to translate an application's UI to another language, you will most likely have to re-arrange your controls since the same label can significantly vary in size depending on which language it is written in. With the XtraLayoutControl you are guaranteed to avoid such problems - everything is aligned automatically.
• Save and Restore Layouts
• Customizable Spacings and Paddings
• Customizable Size Constraints
• Enforce Microsoft UI Guidelines Automatic
• Control-to-Control Alignment
• Auto-Specified Tab Order
• Images in Tab and Group Headers (Screenshot)
• Printing via the XtraPrinting Library (must be purchased separately); (Screenshot)
• Multiple Look and Feel Options

To learn more about the XtraLayoutControl and the ease with which you can create your next Windows Forms, please review the following whitepaper.