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Desktop Programming
Windows Forms	ShaperRater - A Rating Control 2 Jun 2008 Updated: 2 Jun 2008 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 7.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 53,154 Bookmarked: 62 Downloaded: 2,260 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A custom control to graphically select a ratings value.
	Custom ProgressBar Control 30 May 2008 Updated: 8 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 227,640 Bookmarked: 122 Downloaded: 16,064 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Easy to use ProgressBar Control with many properties
Multimedia
GDI+	gLabel - Custom Label with Special Effects (VB.NET) 20 Jul 2010 Updated: 5 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 88 Popularity: 9.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 238,856 Bookmarked: 116 Downloaded: 12,091 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Label control with built-in effects like MouseOver, Shadow, Outer Glow, and Pulse Glow.
	Custom Button Control with Gradient Colors and Extra Image (VB.NET) 3 Jun 2008 Updated: 19 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 131 Popularity: 10.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 811,713 Bookmarked: 232 Downloaded: 46,885 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is a simple to use custom button control, but with a lot of visual design options.
	gListView - ListView Control with Visual Drag and Drop FeedBack (VB.NET) 1 Apr 2009 Updated: 7 Apr 2009 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 96,387 Bookmarked: 52 Downloaded: 2,824 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ListView has a pointer for drop location, alternating row coloring, and custom drag cursor.
	ColorPicker - ColorPicker with a compact footprint (VB.NET) 1 Oct 2008 Updated: 12 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.96 Licence: CPOL Views: 127,206 Bookmarked: 77 Downloaded: 3,701 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An RGB/HSB color selection control with an eye-dropper and quick swatches.
	gTrackBar - A Custom TrackBar UserControl (VB.NET) 7 Apr 2009 Updated: 16 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 63 Popularity: 8.78 Licence: CPOL Views: 331,867 Bookmarked: 84 Downloaded: 14,619 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. TrackBar with custom coloring, value display, label, and increment buttons.
	Adorners, Glyphs, Behavior, and ControlDesigner for WinForms Controls 30 Mar 2015 Updated: 30 Mar 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,714 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 1,439 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Interactive Design Time Control Overlays to make editing custom controls easier.
	Custom Mouse Cursors (VB.NET) 1 Mar 2009 Updated: 17 Sep 2011 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 50 Popularity: 8.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 186,140 Bookmarked: 124 Downloaded: 9,941 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create Graphic Replacement for standard Cursor
	Rich Design Time Editing with UITypeEditors (VB.NET) 31 Aug 2008 Updated: 18 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 63 Popularity: 8.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 166,970 Bookmarked: 170 Downloaded: 4,473 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use UITypeEditors, Smart Tags, ControlDesigner Verbs, and Expandable Properties to make design-time editing easier.
	ColorBlender - Dynamic Gradient Color Blend Creation Control (VB.NET) 1 Aug 2008 Updated: 1 Aug 2012 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 89,158 Bookmarked: 61 Downloaded: 4,350 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a ColorBlend and two color blending UserControls to make it easier.
	gGlowBox - Create a Glow or Shadow Effect Around a Focused Control (VB.NET) 25 Apr 2012 Updated: 28 Feb 2019 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 50 Popularity: 8.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 113,499 Bookmarked: 68 Downloaded: 7,576 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A custom Panel that creates a glow effect around a child control or a drop shadow when it receives focus
	DropDownPanel - Custom DropDown Panel with a Graphic and a Pushpin (VB.NET) 1 Oct 2008 Updated: 1 Oct 2008 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,825 Bookmarked: 51 Downloaded: 2,625 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A ComboBox like dropdown control that controls can be dropped onto and arranged at design time.
	Simple Image Annotation - How to dynamically add rotated text to an image 2 Jul 2008 Updated: 2 Jul 2008 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 67,939 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 1,856 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Add outlined text to an image, rotate it, and move it around with the mouse.
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Visual Basic	gTitleBar - Custom TitleBar for Borderless Forms (VB.NET) 4 Sep 2010 Updated: 4 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 88,806 Bookmarked: 49 Downloaded: 5,402 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simulates standard titlebar on a borderless form for easy placement of additional controls on the titlebar, freeing up space on the form. It can also be put on a panel to simulate an MDI Form.
	DropDownContainer - Custom DropDown Container Using the ToolStripDropDown (VB.NET) 1 Jan 2009 Updated: 1 Jan 2009 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 7.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 116,425 Bookmarked: 65 Downloaded: 4,606 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This control makes it possible to layout the controls in a ToolStripDropDown at design time.
	gAnnotation - Add Annotations or Watermarks to an Image (VB.NET) 9 Jul 2011 Updated: 4 Nov 2011 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 120,999 Bookmarked: 47 Downloaded: 3,372 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Add Annotations or Watermarks to an Image using VB.NET
	gTimePicker- Control to Pick a Time Value (VB.NET) 21 Aug 2009 Updated: 8 Feb 2012 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 135,622 Bookmarked: 69 Downloaded: 3,949 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Stop using the DateTimePicker for time values. This control makes it easy to pick a time, and if you act now, get the matching Nullable gDateTimePicker at no extra cost.

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SSDiver2112

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I first got hooked on programing with the TI994A. After it finally lost all support I reluctantly moved to the Apple IIe. Thank You BeagleBros for getting me through. I wrote programs for my Scuba buisness during this time. Currently I am a Database manager and software developer. I started with VBA and VB6 and now having fun with VB.NET/WPF/C#...