Visual Studio 2005 Start Page

Hi,

The Start Page for Visual Studio 2005 has a set of "panels" that contains
different kinds of links.

I would like to have a similar look and feel for the start page of my my
application - is it possible to build such an interface (a portal look) in my
application using Visual Studio 2005? If so how?

thanks,
hari

v-jetan
Sun Dec 11 19:30:04 CST 2005

Hi hari,

Thanks for your post.

I am not sure about what is your main obstacles, I think we can easily use
LinkLabel control with Panel control to achieve the similiar effect. If you
still have any clear, please feel free to tell me, thanks

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Jeffrey Tan
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harientrust
Tue Dec 20 10:50:02 CST 2005

What I meant was the look and feel of the different panels for "Recent
Projects", "Gettnig Started" etc.

Is that a bitmap in the panel that shows the "title bar" for these panels?
Is it a bitmap that gives the look of the rounded edges?


""Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]"" wrote:

> Hi hari,
>
> Thanks for your post.
>
> I am not sure about what is your main obstacles, I think we can easily use
> LinkLabel control with Panel control to achieve the similiar effect. If you
> still have any clear, please feel free to tell me, thanks
>
> Best regards,
> Jeffrey Tan
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
> This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.
>
>

v-jetan
Tue Dec 20 19:47:50 CST 2005

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback.

To get such style and look, we need do some customization and customized
painting to the Panel control. The article below shows how to achieve the
similiar effect:
"Customising the .NET Panel control"
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/custompanel.asp

Hope it helps

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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Herfried
Wed Dec 21 10:21:29 CST 2005

Jeffrey,

""Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]"" <v-jetan@online.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> To get such style and look, we need do some customization and customized
> painting to the Panel control. The article below shows how to achieve the
> similiar effect:
> "Customising the .NET Panel control"
> http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/custompanel.asp

According to Spy++ the border of each of the panels on VS 2005's start page
consists of a bunch (eight or more) Win32 'STATIC' controls, which is IMO a
waste of resources ;-). I wonder why this hasn't been implemented using a
single custom-drawn panel or static control...

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

v-jetan
Thu Dec 22 02:31:16 CST 2005

Hi Herfried,

Yes, I have detected this yesterday with the same approach as you :-). I
also not sure why the VS.net team use multiple labels controls to construct
the panel style look. Maybe they have their reasons.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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