Hidden .NET 2003 Controls...

[arsmakman]

As some of you may know, some controls used widely by Microsoft are somehow not available in VB.NET. If you open up a recent version of Office you'll see movable toolbars and menus with icons. Somehow these controls are not standardly available in .NET, but they are available in your Windows.

Does anybody know a way to be able to use these controls?

[kleinma]

well the reason they are not available is simply because microsoft did not add them in as .net controls...

the control you specifically mentioned is the ReBar control... if you search you may be able to find some people who have created .net wrappers for this windows control.. or created their own.

RobDog was just working on gaining access to this control as well...
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ighlight=rebar

perhaps you 2 might be able to work together on it...

[nemaroller]

Someone already wrote one (of course)

http://codeproject.com/cs/menu/rebarcontrol.asp

[kleinma]

yeah I saw that code the other day when looking around after rob's post, but didn't post it because it doesn't seem quite complete

The code is functional, but not all of the bugs have been fixed. There is a bunch of stuff that hasn’t been completed at this point (chevron functionality; certain properties; some Unicode stuff; a resizing bug; problems with MouseEnter, MouseHover and MouseLeave; comments in the source…), but I’ll periodically post updates along the way.

but since the source is there perhaps you could work off of it to iron out the kinks