Samples and documentation for Actipro WinForms Controls, a set of UI controls for building WinForms desktop applications.

• About WinForms Controls
• Getting Started
  • Running the Sample Browser Application
  • Browsing Documentation
  • Running Other Sample Applications
  • Viewing Related Open-Source Projects
• NuGet Packages
• Supported Technologies
• Contributing
• Support
• Licensing

The Actipro WinForms Controls include:

• SyntaxEditor - A syntax-highlighting code editor control and parsing suite.
• Docking/MDI - A complete docking tool window and multiple document interface solution.
• Bars - Advanced, customizable docking toolbars, menus, and statusbars.
• Navigation - An Outlook-like navigation bar control with multiple panes.
• Wizard - Everything you need to quickly create wizard dialogs.
• Shared Library - A set of common controls and useful components for WinForms applications.

The control products themselves are closed-source commercial products, whose source is not included in this repo.

The Sample Browser application allows you to examine all of the Actipro WinForms controls and their feature sets via over 100 included demos and QuickStarts.

Follow these steps to run the application:

• Check out the repo.
• Open the Samples\SampleBrowser\SampleBrowser.sln solution in Visual Studio.
• Build and run the solution's application project.

Complete product documentation is available on our web site.

The Markdown source code for the product documentation is contained within this repo's Documentation\topics folder. The documentation is built with DocFx.

Packages for the Actipro WinForms Controls are published on nuget.org, all beginning with the ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms name prefix.

This metapackage contains all of the control products, and is easiest to reference when getting started:

• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms

Use these individual control packages if you want to use a specific subset of the metapackage:

• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.Bars
• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.Docking
• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.Navigation
• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.Shared
• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.SyntaxEditor
• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.Wizard

Use these packages for SyntaxEditor's premium language add-ons as needed, which are shipped separately from the metapackage:

• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.SyntaxEditor.Addons.DotNet - Advanced C#/VB languages in the .NET Languages Add-on.
• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.SyntaxEditor.Addons.JavaScript - Advanced JavaScript/JSON languages in the Web Languages Add-on.
• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.SyntaxEditor.Addons.Python - Advanced Python language in the Python Language Add-on.
• ActiproSoftware.Controls.WinForms.SyntaxEditor.Addons.XML - Advanced XML language in the Web Languages Add-on.

• Frameworks: .NET 5+, .NET Core 3.1, and .NET Framework 4.6.2+
• Architectures: Any CPU, ARM64, x64, and x86
• IDEs: Visual Studio 2019-2022
• SDKs: .NET SDK required for sample projects

We welcome contributions to our open-source repository. If you want to submit a pull request, please first open a GitHub issue or contact us to discuss.

Read through our How to Contribute document, as it covers everything you need to know about contributing.

Our Support document provides details about how to properly obtain support for both our closed-source UI control products and for code in this open-source repo (documentation, samples, and related libraries). This chart shows a quick summary:

While the source code in this repo falls under the terms of the included license document, the Actipro End-User License Agreement (EULA) applies to usage of our commercial WinForms control products.

Visit the Actipro purchasing page to learn more about product licensing or to order developer licenses. Contact our sales team if you have any questions.