Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 Released (Now with a DataRepeater Control)

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 Released (Now with a DataRepeater Control)

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 (Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 Readme.htm)

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The new DataRepeater control included in this version of the Visual Basic Power Packs allows you use standard Windows Forms controls to display rows of your data in a scrollable container giving you more flexibility and customization than standard grid controls.
The Line and Shape controls are a set of three graphical controls that enable you to draw lines, ovals, and rectangles on forms and containers at design time making it much easier to enhance the look of your user interface. These shape controls also provide events such as click and double-click allowing developers to respond and interact with end users.
The Printer Compatibility Library allows projects that used the Printer and Printers Collection in Visual Basic 6.0 to be upgraded without having to re-write your printing logic. By simply adding a reference to the library, declaring a Printer and making a few minor syntax changes, your project will be able to print using the Printers collection and Printer object as it did in Visual Basic 6.0. This version adds a new Write method to the Printer object which allows you to print text without a forced carriage return similar to the semicolon syntax used by Print method in Visual Basic 6.0.

The PrintForm component is designed to bring back the ability to easily print a Windows Form. With this the new PrintForm component you can once again layout the Windows Form exactly as you want it and allow your users to print the form as a quick report.

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I'm going to have to check out the Repeater. I may have just built something like that (numbers of winform controls dynamically added to a panel, creating a scrollable region/container... etc)