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May 25, 2007 /  New Version of Elegant Ribbon for .NET Developers Released
Salem, NH (PRWEB) May 25, 2007 -- FOSS Software, an industry leader in developing GUI components for Windows applications, announced the release of Elegant Ribbon v.1.2, a set of .NET Windows Forms controls that allow C# and VB.NET developers to quickly and easily provide their applications with a new-generation user interface like that introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. The new version introduces three major features: Quick Access Toolbar, KeyTips and the ability to use even more controls both on the ribbon and on the form. All the implemented features are fully compliant with the 2007 Microsoft Office System User Interface Design Guidelines. You can learn about how to use the new features from the following two articles: Working with Quick Access Toolbar and Keyboard Navigation with KeyTips. A new sample called Elegant Controls demonstrates how you can use context-sensitive controls on the form. The most powerful feature of Elegant Ribbon is true WYSIWYG support, which allows the developer to do almost all the work using the Visual Studio 2005 designer. You can download a free, fully-functional evaluation version right now. FOSS Software has been successfully developing and offering software solutions and GUI libraries since 2000.
Feb 02, 2007 /  Introducing Elegant Ribbon with Office 2007 Style Controls for .NET Windows Forms Developers

SALEM, New Hampshire -- February 02, 2006 -- FOSS Software, an industry leader in developing graphical user interface components for desktop Windows applications, announced the release of version 1.0 of Elegant Ribbon, a set of .NET Windows Forms controls that allow developers to quickly and easily provide their applications with a new-generation user interface (UI) like that introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. Elegant Ribbon is written 100% managed C# and is CLS compliant.

The company is working on a solution that will completely meet the Microsoft Office System UI Design Guidelines and bring the full power of the Ribbon UI to .NET developers. The first version of Elegant Ribbon provides many powerful features like context-sensitive and windowless controls, WYSIWYG and rich design-time support in Visual Studio 2005, a very fast automatic scaling of controls, a command-oriented programming interface, XML-based skinning with Blue and Black themes provided, and more.

Elegant Ribbon is very simple and intuitive to use. The developers can do a considerable part of their work using the Windows Forms Designer: Elegant Ribbon at design time looks and feels almost like at run time.

Introducing the new product, the company offers a limited-time discount of 50%.

A free fully functional evaluation version is available at http://www.prof-uis.com/download/mfc.aspx#ElegantRibbon. FOSS Software has been successfully developing and offering software solutions and GUI libraries since 2000.
Nov 05, 2005 /  FOSS Software Introduces the Next Major Release of Prof-UIS!
SALEM, New Hampshire -- November 05, 2005 -- FOSS Software, an industry leader in developing graphical user interface components for Windows applications, introduced Prof-UIS 2.50, the major release of their flagship product. Prof-UIS (http://www.prof-uis.com) is a popular MFC extension library for creating newest GUI like that available in the latest Microsoft products. The new version contains many new features and enhancements since the previous major release (2.40) including compound properties for the property grid control, tabbed toolbars, tear-off menus, palette menus, shadow support for tooltips and much more. To see the full list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes, visit the version history section of the product’s website at http://www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/version-history.aspx. Most of the new features introduced in the new version were requested by Prof-UIS users. Besides of Microsoft HTML Help 1 (chm and chi files), the technical documentation now supports Microsoft HTML Help 2 format (HxS and HxI files) and can be integrated with the Combined Help Collection for Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005. All the new classes are fully documented. Prof-UIS now features the Application Wizard for Visual Studio 2005, which allows the developers to create a start-up project within minutes. The Integration Wizard, which comes with the library, is now capable of compiling any library configuration out of 24 configurations supported in Prof-UIS, including RDE configurations (the DLLs used in regular DLLs and ActiveX projects). Prof-UIS is a royalty-free library so its binaries can be distributed without any additional fees. Prof-UIS Freeware is a free-for-non-commercial use version of Prof-UIS. Both the commercial and freeware versions come with full source code. Foss Software has been successfully developing and offering custom software solutions and GUI libraries since 2000.
Feb 19, 2005 /  Prof-UIS users always get what they need!
SALEM, New Hampshire -- February 19, 2005 --FOSS Software, an industry leader in developing graphical user interface components for Windows applications, announced the release of version 2.30 of the Professional User Interface Suite (http://www.prof-uis.com). Prof-UIS is a popular MFC extension library for creating newest GUI with Visual Studio 6.0/7.0/7.1/8.0. Most of the new features introduced in the new version were requested by library users. These features mostly deal with modern elements of graphical user interface implemented in latest Microsoft products: tab controls, MDI tabs, and tab containers like those available in One Note and Visual Studio 2005, Page Navigator like the Navigation pane in Office 2003 and toolbox like that found in Visual Studio 2005. The authors also implemented undo/redo drop-down buttons and menu items in toolbars and pop-up menus, and some other new features and improvements. To see the full list of features, improvements, and bug fixes, please visit the version history section of the product’s website at http://www.prof-uis.com/VersionHistory.aspx! Prof-UIS is a royalty-free library so its binaries can be distributed without any additional fees. Prof-UIS Freeware is a free-for-non-commercial use version of Prof-UIS. Both the commercial and freeware versions come with full source code. Foss Software has been successfully developing and offering custom software solutions and GUI libraries since 2000.
Jan 18, 2005 /  Prof-UIS Frame Features 1.2 makes newest GUI easier to implement!
SALEM, New Hampshire -- January 18, 2005 -- FOSS Software, an industry leader in developing graphical user interface components for Windows applications, announced the release of the first public version of Prof-UIS Frame Features, a .NET ready ActiveX control for creating feature-rich GUIs like in the newest Microsoft products including Office XP/2003 and Visual Studio 2005. Frame Features is specially designed to be an easy-to-use yet powerful tool for GUI development in the environments like VB 6.0, VB.NET, C#, and J#. It can also be used in any other environment that provides access to a handle of the window in which the dockable windows supported by Frame Features should be displayed. The control comes with a set of property pages (Property Builder) with which you can easily and quickly create the user interface in the design mode. Alternatively, the user interface can be implemented completely programmatically at runtime. To help the developers quickly start employing the power of Frame Features, we included SDI and MDI sample applications for the following development environments: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Java++ 6.0, C# 7.0, C# 7.1, C# 8.0, J# 7.1, J#8.0, Visual Basic 7.0, and Visual Basic 7.1. Frame Features even perfectly works with Internet Explorer and the HTA sample application proves this. FOSS Software plans to make available support for resizable control bars and some other Prof-UIS features in the next releases of Frame Features. Please take a look at the key features, take a feature tour and download a free trial right now at the product’s website at www.prof-uis.com! Frame Features is a royalty-free ActiveX control and its binaries can be distributed without any additional fees. Foss Software has been successfully developing and offering custom software solutions and GUI libraries since 2000.
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