
You want the polish of Office 2003, but without the three-month schedule that goes with it. Organize the client area of your application.2.3 Creating a Professional User Interface with Krypton ToolkitĪdding a professional veneer to your application can be the most time-consuming part of your development effort. Krypton ToolkitĤ9 basic controls with full and consistent theming. The Krypton Components sub-directory contains all the actual controls, the other directories are for the myriad example projects. Source directory contains the full source code that you can view, modify and directly compile. Select OK and now you have them all in the Toolbox!.Click Browse and go to the Bin directory, and select all the ComponentFactory.Krypton.Right click inside the new tab and select Choose items.Right click the Toolbox and Add Tab, give it the name Krypton.


Help directory contains a KryptonHelp.chm file that can be double clicked to open the documentation. It lists all the controls along with example applications used to show them in operation. Getting Startedīin directory contains already compiled copies of all the example projects and the Krypton assemblies, so I recommend you start by running the Krypton Explorer application in this directory. Full source code for all the controls and components is included along with Visual Studio projects and solution files. NET developers had a good set of free controls to use in their projects.

So I decided to make them open source so that. I developed and sold them from my company Component Factory from 2006 until 2014, when the lack of sales meant selling the controls was no longer viable. NET WinForms controls are now freely available for use in personal or commerical projects.
