NOV UI for .NET includes 70+ high-quality controls for building premium User Experiences for Windows and macOS applications.
Below is a brief overview of the main types of widgets included in the suite:
Ribbon
NOV UI for .NET Ribbon control
Nevron Open Vision's Ribbon is a widget that lets developers easily enrich their applications with Microsoft Office-like Ribbon UI.
NOV Ribbon is fully customizable and scales its child widgets automatically based on the available area. The resizing of the Ribbon is fully customizable as well.
NOV Ribbon consists of the following main elements:
Application Menu
Ribbon Tab
Collapse Button
Additional Content
Ribbon Group
Dialog Launcher
Ribbon Wrap Flow Panel
Ribbon Stack Panel
Ribbon Button
Ribbon Split Button
Ribbon Menu
Ribbon Gallery
Buttons
NOV UI for .NET Buttons
Buttons are widgets typically used to perform a specific action when clicked. NOV features a complete set of buttons that can contain arbitrary content (i.e., other widgets). The main types of buttons include:
Standard buttons
Repeat buttons
Toggle buttons
Check boxes
Radio buttons
Split buttons
Other buttons
Color Pickers
NOV UI for .NET Color Pickers
Color pickers are widgets that allow the user to to pick a color by modifying one or all of its color components through a visual interface.
Palette Color Picker
Luminance Color Bar
Hue Color Bar
Saturation-Brightness Color Box
HSB Box Color Picker
HSB Wheel Color Picker
Color Box
Command Bars
NOV UI for .NET Command Bars
NOV implements advanced command bars that mimic the commanding logic of Microsoft Office 2003, Visual Studio, etc. NOV command bars can contain any other widget and support many advanced features. Specific subtypes of commands bars include:
Menu Bar
Tool Bar
Status Bar
Containers
NOV UI for .NET Containers
Container widgets are used to contain other widgets and provide different adorner features to their content.
Group Box
Pair Box
Uni Size Box
Splitter
Tab
Document Box
Scroll Content
And many other...
Context Popups
NOV UI for .NET Context Popups
Context popups are Popup Windows opened that are opened in a context fashion. Context popups are usually used for:
Context Menus
Custom Context Popups
Drop Down Edits
NOV UI for .NET Drop Down Edits
Drop down edits consist of a specific editing area and a drop down button located at the right side.
When the drop-down button is clicked, the drop-down edit opens a popup window, which assists the user with the editing. Notable drop-down edits are:
Combo Box
Date Time Box
Color Box
Split Buttons
Layout Panels
NOV UI for .NET Layout Panels
Layout panels are used to arrange content. The layout panels included in NOV have unique features that are a product of our long-term dedication to automatic layouts.
Panel
Single Visible Panel
Dock Panel
Stack Panel
Wrap Flow Panel
Table Flow Panel
Range Based Widgets
NOV UI for .NET Range Based Widgets
Range-based widgets are widgets that display a range and a current value. Notable range-based widgets are:
Scrollbars
Slider
Numeric Up Down
Progress Bar
Text Visualization and Editing
NOV UI for .NET Text Visualization and Editing
The NOV Label and Text Box widgets allow for the visualization and editing of Unicode text.
They are based on our proprietary managed Typography and are the only Label and Text Box in the .NET world that can guarantee 100% identical text quality and speed in all environme
Label
Text Box
Auto Complete Text Box
List Box
NOV UI for .NET List Box
The NOV List Box presents the user with a list of items he can choose from.
The items of the NOV List Box can be any other widgets. Supported are single and multiple selection modes.
Tree View
NOV UI for .NET Tree View
The NOV Tree View is used to visualize a tree hierarchy. Users can navigate the hierarchy visually by expanding and collapsing certain tree branches.
The items of the NOV Tree View can be any other widgets.
Top Level Windows
NOV UI .NET Top Level Windows
Top-level windows are windows that are opened on top of other windows in the specific presentation layer windows stack.
The Top Level Windows of NOV is virtualized. NOV Top Level Windows features full control over the window frame and title bar and can be opened in a modal fashion. Top-level windows are usually used for:
Popups
Dialogs
Themes
NOV UI for .NET Themes
NOV widgets are styled with CSS. NOV initially comes with the following themes:
Windows 8
Windows 7
Windows XP Blue
Windows Classic (with all color scheme variations)
macOS Lion
macOS El Capitan
Nevron Dark
Nevron Light
Miscellaneous UI features
Miscellaneous UI features that apply to all types of widgets include:
Borders – implementing the W3C borders specification, with many additional enhancements.
Commanding – an extensive framework for implementing diverse commanding logic in Enterprise applications.
Tooltips – virtualized support for tooltips with many advanced features.
Cursors – virtualized support for cursors.
Clipboard – virtualized support for the clipboard.
Drag and Drop– virtualized support for drag and drop.
Customer Quotes
I really like the fact that standard windows icons are provided with the NOV Ribbon example, avoiding the need to recreate the wheel and giving a more professional appearance. Using the provided Visual Studio NOV solution, it is fairly straightforward to add custom icons with a few extra simple steps. The gallery of C# examples for all controls makes it easy to create custom layouts. For the handful of customizations I could not find in the examples or user forums, the tech support responses got me going within a day.
Open Vision for .NET
NOV Chart for .NET
NOV Diagram for .NET
NOV Rich Text Editor for .NET
NOV Grid for .NET
NOV Schedule for .NET
NOV Gauge for .NET
NOV Barcode for .NET
NOV User Interface for .NET
Vision for .NET
Chart for .NET
Diagram for .NET
User Interface for .NET
Vision for SSRS
Chart for SSRS
Gauge for SSRS
Map for SSRS
Barcode for SSRS
Vision for SharePoint
Chart for SharePoint
Gauge for SharePoint
Map for SharePoint
Barcode for SharePoint
