Custom toolbar control in .Net framework

[agrafov]

I need a "toolbar"-like control (for my "Windows.Form"-based Document Viewer application) with functionality similar to modern ("Microsoft Office", etc.) products:
I want to have an ability to represent it floating over, or docked to the top of the main window; to have entry fields on it (like "Page: # of #" for quick navigation), etc.
Apparently, straight use of "System.Windows.Forms.ToolBar" class (provided by framework) doesn't give such a rich functionality.

I'm quite a novice in .Net GUI development and I did not find anything about it in MSDN (maybe I just made wrong search

I'm sure it's a very common task nowdays, so there should be some well-known solutions (or approaches) for this problem!
Could somebody post an example, reference, or link to discussion about those matters.

Regards,
Andrey

 

[chiph]

There will be a nice docking toolbar in .net 2.0, but for now you'll probably need to find an opensource one on sourceforge.net, or buy one at componentsource.com

Chip H.


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