Question

I am using VS2008 and want to try Outlook style display for application. Kindly guide me how I can have outloook like sidebar and alike display ? Is it possible using existing controls ?

Please also mention if these are WPF controls.

thanks

Answer 1

Here are a couple examples from CodeProject:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/menus/OutlookBar.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/menus/NaviPane.aspx

The above two links were for Winforms. Here is a link for a WPF project:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFOutlookNavi.aspx

If you wanted to make life easier and you didn’t mind purchasing a great toolset, look at the Telerik tools:

http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/dropdown-and-list.aspx

http://www.telerik.com/products/wpf.aspx