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.NET CF controls - Special features

The MobileForms Toolkit controls contain some powerful features which make them a perfect choice for mobile application development. Below are listed some of their special features:

Designed specifically for mobile devices

All components have been designed so that they perfectly suit the small display of mobile devices. Special optimizations ensure that all components provide sufficient application performance even on devices with limited memory and processor capabilities.

Touch Control

The Touch Scroll feature allows the user to scroll the contents of MobileForms Toolkit controls comfortably using a thumb. Although Windows Mobile does not have a native support of touch scrolling in its API, the only thing developers need to do to take advantage of Touch Scroll, is to turn on one property in Visual Studio designer.

Supported controls:

• AdvancedList for .NET CF - vertical scrolling
• AdvancedTree for .NET CF - vertical scrolling
• SmartGrid for .NET CF - vertical and horizontal scrolling
• DetailView for .NET CF - vertical scroling, horizontal by pages
• ShortcutBar for .NET CF - vertical scrolling
• MonthCalendar for .NET CF - horizontal by months/years
• WeekCalendar for .NET CF - vertical by hours, horizontal by days/weeks
• Toolbar for .NET CF - horizontal, or vertical scroling
• TabControl for .NET CF - horizontal, or vertical tab scroling

Anyone can download and try the demo application for Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices. It shows a filtered list of customers which can be comfortably scrolled with your thumb.

Delayed Load

DelayLoad functionality allows you to load huge amounts of data from a data source in a short time. When the control is displayed, only the currently displayed data is loaded. Additional data is loaded as needed.

Supported controls:

• AdvancedList for .NET CF
• AdvancedTree for .NET CF
• SmartGrid for .NET CF

XML templates

The design and look of the control can be saved into an XML file either using the Visual Studio designer or the Resco designer application. The XML file can be then loaded back into the control at any time (also during run-time). This means the appearance of the control can be changed simply by calling a single LoadXml method.

Supported controls:

• AdvancedList for .NET CF
• AdvancedTree for .NET CF
• DetailView for .NET CF
• SmartGrid for .NET CF
• ShortcutBar for .NET CF
• CustomKeyboard for .NET CF
• Toolbar for .NET CF

Component Themes

New Resco component themes are various graphic drafts of mobile forms that are elaborated based on Resco’s mobile software know-how. The Themes’ list along with screenshots of every control is accessible directly from Visual Studio designer. The themes can be easily applied onto the components.

This function significantly facilitates the development process. It provides developers with graphical drafts that cannot be created in standard environment of Microsoft Visual Studio.

Furthermore, the majority of the Themes contain a heap of icons designed by professional graphic designer that bring an interesting added value to every developer.