WinForms Accordion Control

Provide a multi-level navigation experience.

Our WinForms Accordion control ships with everything one would expect from a navigation bar. Accordion is a feature-rich UI control designed to address a broad range of navigation related use-case scenarios. You can create an advanced hierarchical navigation menu with endless nesting of navigation elements, categorize elements into groups, auto-populate our WinForms Office Navigation Bar with groups, can display images and custom header buttons within items and groups.

The DevExpress Accordion UI component also offers:

  • an embedded Find Panel to help users locate information in an intuitive manner;
  • web-inspired Hamburger style menu;
  • semi-transparent Acrylic Material support;
  • improved high-DPI support, and much more.
Accordion Control - WinForms App Navigation UI | DevExpress

WinForms NavBar Control

Replicate the Office navigation experience.

The DevExpress NavBar Control supports the UI shipping as part of Outlook 2013 and all previous versions of Office. Its features include:

  • Navigation Pane inspired by Microsoft Outlook
  • Side Bar inspired by Microsoft Office 97
  • Win Explorer Bar inspired by Windows File Explorer
  • Predefined Paint Styles
  • Auto-Hide
NavBar Control - WinForms App Navigation UI | DevExpress

Office Navigation Bar

Replicate Outlook 2013 UX.

The DevExpress Office Navigation Bar control extends the capabilities of the DevExpress WinForms Navigation Bar to fully replicate the UX shipping as part of Outlook 2013. With its Tab Navigation View, you can easily create tab navigation options like those found in Microsoft Outlook and Visual Studio – user experiences with a modern appearance and borderless tab headers.

Office Navigation Bar - WinForms App Navigation UI | DevExpress

WinForms Navigation Pane

Deliver advanced navigation options.

The WinForms Navigation Pane control incorporates a set of pages that can be vertically aligned into a single column. Only a single page can be active at any point in time. Pages can be expanded sideways to display custom content.

Navigation Pane - WinForms App Navigation UI | DevExpress

SDI Navigation Frame & Tab Pane

Build solutions that fully replicate Outlook's UI.

Our WinForms Navigation Frame and Tabbed Frame are SDI (Single Document Interface) content containers. These controls owns a collection of pages. Only one page can be active at any point in time. Pages can host any content, from panels and group boxes to user controls. Like Outlook, page navigation incorporates elegant animation effects.

SDI Navigation Frame and Tab Pane - WinForms App Navigation UI | DevExpress

WinForms Tile-based Navigation

Emulate the touch-first Windows 10 UX.

Designed to be positioned at the top of your application window (like a Ribbon), the DevExpress TileNavPane can be thought of as a touch-friendly version of traditional navigation elements used within Windows desktop or touch-enabled hybrid apps.

Much like the Tile Navigation Pane, our Tile-based Toolbar offers a touch-friendly alternative to traditional toolbars and menus.

Learn about Tile Navigation

Tile-based Navigation - WinForms App Navigation UI | DevExpress

WinForms Toolbox Control

Inspired by Microsoft Visio.

Our WinForms Toolbox control offers unique UX options for those of you with complex navigation requirements. It ships with the following features:

  • Built-in Drag&Drop Support
  • Multiple Item Support
  • Item Groups/Categories
  • Search Box
  • Minimize/Maximize
  • Quick Access Menu
  • Extended Drag&Drop API
Toolbox Control - WinForms App Navigation UI | DevExpress

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WinForms UI Templates (EAP)

Jump start the form development process via polished and ready-to-use 'templates'. The motivation behind our WinForms UI Templates is to create ready-to-use UI solutions for real-life line-of-business (LOB) apps and eliminate the need for routine UI customizations. Read about UI Templates

Touch Enabled User Experience

Deliver elegant, touch-enabled WinForms applications using the platform you know and love. The WinForms Subscription helps you leverage your current investments and address customer needs via a comprehensive range of WinForms controls that support touch on Windows 8/10/11.

Sec 508 and Accessibility

The DevExpress WinForms Subscription makes it easy to create WinForms applications that meet government regulations regarding accessibility. Sec 508 and Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 support is available for DevExpress WinForms controls.

Straightforward Localization

All DevExpress WinForms controls can be localized using localization-related API or satellite resource assemblies. DevExpress delivers satellite assemblies for a large variety of languages and cultures. To help you get started, resource files for three cultures are included in our installation: German, Japanese, and Spanish. If you need to modify our shipping resources or create satellite assemblies for a different language, simply use our Online Localization Service or UI Localization Client tool.
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Testing Support

The DevExpress Universal Subscription includes built-in support for Microsoft's CodedUI. Unlike many vendors claiming support for Coded UI through the simple use of MSAA, DevExpress controls go the extra mile to make certain that individual controls fully comply with Microsoft's testing framework. We don't simply support Coded UI; we support it to the maximum extent possible. Note: CodedUI support requires purchase of the DevExpress Universal Subscription. Learn more about Coded UI

MVVM Framework

The DevExpress MVVM Framework ships with features that are absent in WinForms, but essential to MVVM development. These missing features include bindings, commands, UI triggers, behaviors etc. Our Framework includes all of these along with a straightforward API to make WinForms app development more efficient. Learn more about MVVM Framework

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Supported IDEs

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Version
24.1.5
23.1.12
22.1.14
18.1.18
Release Date
15-August-2024
15-August-2024
7-May-2024
5-May-2022
Support Status
Supported
Limited Support
Not Supported
(for legacy apps)
Not Supported
(for legacy apps)
Minor Updates
Yes
No
No
No
Security Updates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Supported Frameworks
.NET 6 / .NET 7 / .NET 8
.NET Framework 4.5.2+
.NET 6 / .NET 7
.NET Framework 4.5.2+
.NET 5 / .NET 6
.NET Core 3.0+
.NET Framework 4.5.2+
.NET Framework 4.0+
Supported IDE
Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio 2010

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