RadGroupBox for WinForms

Thursday, January 08, 2009 by WinForms Team | Comments 5
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We are happy to announce yet another control to be added to our WinForms portfolio in Q1 2009 - RadGroupBox. The new control will offer the same functionality as the standard toolbox GroupBox, but will add some extra coolness by supporting Telerik’s remarkable styling mechanism:
 

 

Here are some of the features it will offer:

Theme Support

RadGroupBox will support all common themes that come with Telerik RadControls for WinForms: standard theme (aka Control Default), Office 2007 Blue, Office 2007 Silver, Office 2007 Black, Desert, Telerik, and Aqua. We will also have one new theme for the official release.
 

Properties

The HeaderPosition can be set to be on Top, Right, Bottom, and Left:

HeaderAlignment takes Near, Center, and Far values:

 
The groupbox style can be set through the GroupBoxStyle property:

 
Footers are also supported via FooterVisibility:

 

 

RadGroupBox will also support images in its header and footer. The text to image relation can be set with the familiar properties: HeaderImageAndTextRelation, HeaderImageAlignment, and HeaderTextAlignment:

 
We will greatly appreciate your thoughts and comments.
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  • Serrin 08 Jan 2009
    "The new control will offer the same functionality as the standard toolbox GroupBox, but will add some extra coolness by supporting Telerik’s remarkable styling mechanism"... Pretty awesome work folks, makes me want to make a new pet WinForms project just to try this out.  :) Any other nice surprises in the works for Q1?
  • Nick 14 Jan 2009
    Thanks for your feedback! I am very glad that you find our controls cool and I can share with you that there are other great things coming out soon. Stay tuned!
  • Antonio 10 Feb 2009
    How about making it collapsible ? Like the collapsible pane ?

    Seems group boxes would be the perfect control to implement
    collapsible pane like behaviour.

    Would love that :)
  • Nick 24 Feb 2009
    Thank you for your feedback!I am glad to share with you that we already have a collapsible pane example in our demo application which you can review at your leisure. With several tweaks you can create a similar simple collapsible pane, based in the Telerik Presentation Framework, which offers such flexibility.
    If you open a new support ticket from your account (www.telerik.com/account.aspx) we will gladly send you the code.
  • Alain 04 Mar 2010
    I'm having problems styling the groupbox  so that the area beside the header is transparent.  This is the area outside the border of the GroupBoxContent and outside the border of the Header.  Can't make it happen.  Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks

    AL

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