Archive for January, 2008

Analog Meter (Ammeter/Voltmeter/etc) Control for C# and .NET

Friday, January 18th, 2008

UPDATE: See my newest update, which includes a C# Oscilloscope and Analog Meter control!

This is another open source C# control that was developed for my Senior Design project. Its pretty obvious what it does from the following screenshot.

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This is definitely a useful control for some projects, and is released under an open source license. This control implements a simple to use Analog Meter control, similar to old school analog meters used for all sorts of things. Obviously theres a lot more things that could be added to this, but this does what I need it to do at the moment. And, it looks quite nice if I do say so myself. 😉 Its very adjustable as well, with integrated designer support.

Usage

Add the control to your form, and adjust the Value parameter of the control to move the needle. Pretty easy to use. There are a bunch of other options, such as adjusting the frequency of the tick marks, but they should be mostly self evident as to what they do.

Enjoy! As always, let me know if you either use this or find a bug.

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Visual Studio styled Dockable Windows Component Library for .NET

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Well, isn’t THAT a mouthful of a title.

This is another open source project created as a result of my Senior Design project. See, we had this nice GUI, but it seemed like it needed to be a lot more flexible than it was, since using it was really quite annoying. So, I got the idea to copy the interface from Visual Studio… since, in my opinion, the way the dockable windows work in VS is quite intuitive and useful. Some of you may cry out that there are other programs that do the same behavior… well, I copied it from VS.

So, thats what this component library implements. See a screenshot:

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As you can see, its capable of fairly complex layouts, with each element completely resizable and movable and such.  It is not quite as polished as the interface for Visual Studio, but its still quite intuitive for the user to use, and a pretty decent approximation for most projects. More importantly, its open source!

A sample executable and source code/project files are included in the download package.

Please note that you can NOT drag new panes into the form designer, as implementing the appropriate designer support seemed to be more trouble than its worth. Refer to the PaneTest project for detailed implementation, and the source code for detailed documentation.

If you find any bugs or have any comments or questions, feel free to drop me an email!

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