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Elegant Ribbon

Version 3.7 - July 20, 2010

Version 3.7 is a major release with a number of new controls and improvements.

Added a BackstageView control (see screenshot). The feature is beta.
Added a Slider control (see screenshot).
Added a MessageBox control (see screenshot).
Added a PictureBox control (see screenshot).
Added a ScreenTipData.ImageScaleMode property that specifies the way the image is scaled inside a screen tip.
Added a FlatStyle property for button-based controls (Button, Drop-Down, Split, Slider, Toggle) to provide a flat style for controls put into the Backstage View.
Added a Ribbon.AllowCloseFormOnApplicationButtonDoubleClick property that specifies if the application button is allowed to close the form on double click.
Now you can change the visual theme at design mode. Just drag-and-drop the ThemeSelector component from the toolbox and select a theme in it (see screenshot).
Improved memory usage.
Improved the framework performance and rendering quality in RTL mode.

Command associated with a ribbon group's dialog launcher button did not work.
A ribbon tab page, when used in auto-hide mode, was shown on a wrong monitor in multi-monitor environment.
Ribbon was not drawn correctly if the monitor was wider than 4096 pixels.
Status bar was not drawn correctly in cases when its parent form was too wide.
Maximized form with a ribbon overlapped the taskbar.
Hidden tab pages could be selected on mouse wheel.
ComboBox, when used with a data source, threw a NullReference exception in some cases.
Dropdown list of a ComboBox, when used with a data source, was populated in invalid order.
ContextMenu in some cases showed itself on a wrong monitor in a multi monitor environment.
NavigationBar.PressedToggleButtonChanged event occurred when the NavigationBar.PressedToggleButton property had not actually been changed yet.
Several issues with a popup menu in the designer.
Text in the title bar was painted over the Minimize button if it was too long and the Maximize and/or Minimize buttons were disabled.
PreviewXXX events did not occur for controls with mouse capture.