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SandBar is a powerful, easy to use toolbar and menu library for Windows Forms. It boasts a comprehensive range of features designed to give your applications a great looking interface while minimizing development costs. SandBar gives you toolbars, menuing, statusbars and task panes that emulate the look of Office 2003, Office XP or Visual Studio 2005 and are fully configurable without having to write a single line of code.
The designer support in SandBar is unparalleled by any other toolbar/menu library. Interacting with toolbars and menu bars at design time is just like using them at runtime with extra controls to add and manipulate buttons. Full drag and drop of items is supported between toolbars and menus. Menu designers that present your menus at design time just the way they are presented at runtime make configuring an advanced menu system as easy as point and click.

Key features of SandBar:

• Pluggable rendered system allows complete control over drawing of all toolbar and menu items.

• Support image lists, direct icon assignment or direct image assignment.

• Completely proprietary menu system allows docking, floating and even hosted controls.

• Any top-level menu item can be used as a context menu on any control.

• Optional automatic MDI window list functionality.

• Can be docked at any orientation, allowing for vertical button layout.

• Support image lists, direct icon assignment or direct image assignment.

• The user's chosen layout can easily be persisted to and restored from a file.

• Any control can be hosted on a toolbar by extending base classes.

• All text is fully localizable.

• Right-to-left layout is fully supported for languages such as Hebrew or Arabic.

SandBar screenshot: