Instrumentation Widgets Win Forms

Need device emulators for creating professional-looking computer simulators or software interfaces? Developing these components on your own and hiring a designer is likely to take time and cost thousands of dollars. Why not use an outstanding already-available solution to save time and cut costs?

Instrumentation Widgets™ is a library of meters, indicators, scales, sliders, gauges, knobs, buttons, dials, tanks, thermometers, switches, matrixes, LEDs, and other .NET instrumentation controls that emulate hardware devices. The product contains only 100% native .NET managed components written in C#. All controls use double buffering to produce smooth animation and avoid flickering. Currently, we offer a library containing 30 controls and more are scheduled to be added soon. With the largest collection of various instrumentation controls available, including compass, oscilloscope, odometers, toggles, multimedia buttons, and buttons with skin support, Instrumentation Widgets™ is the natural choice for software developers, especially when you consider the fact that all device emulators are fully-scalable and customizable. The software users can change size, color, font types, value range, and other properties of each control. Another advantage of this package is its data binding feature - all properties can be bound to a data source of any kind.

Conveniently, the library does not require any special skills or time spent studying documentation; this makes it easy to integrate Instrumentation Widgets™' components into other software applications. No designer or artistic expertise is necessary. Best of all, Instrumentation Widgets™ can be tried and tested absolutely free of charge!

• Source Code Is Available.
  The availability of the product source code gives you full control over your application.    
• Easy to Use.
  The library does not require any special skills or time spent studying documentation making it easy to integrate Instrumentation Widgets™' components into other software applications. Nevertheless, the product comes with a demo- application and demonstrative video tutorials describing the general functionality of the product as well as examples of its utilization and implementation into an application. 
• Easy to Deploy.
  In order to make the application which uses Instrumentation Widgets™ work on a user’s machine, simply copy a few DLLs to the program directory.  Royalty-Free RunTime.
  Instrumentation Widgets™ is runtime royalty-free. You can distribute Instrumentation Widgets™ with your application to end-users without any additional fees. 
• Skilled and Timely Support to Users around The World
  You can get skilled technical support via e-mail or from the forum on our site within 24 hours.

Data Source Connection

• Supports all .NET data sources.
  You can use any .NET data source. It can be ADO.NET objects and/or your own objects with the support for IList and IListSource interfaces.  
• Full Support for Data Binding
  Using Instrumentation Widgets, you can bind all the control properties to a data source of any kind. 

Instrument design

• A Rich Library of Ready-made Controls.
  Instrumentation Widgets contains more than 30 ready-made instrumentation controls such as ProgressBars, Meters, Dials, Sliders, Gauges, Odometers, Thermometers, Switches, and so on. These controls can be nested into an application as they are or customized according to the specified requirements.  
• Visual Components Are Fully Customizable
  Custom control settings including sizing, coloring, and freedom from restrictive bitmap controls that limit your form design – these features allow a developer to design highly-competitive .NET applications with matchless user interfaces. 
• Support for Double Buffering
  The double buffering is used to produce smooth animation and helps to avoid flickering of a control when its properties are being changed.     
• Look & Feel of Real-life Instrumentation Hardware
  Instrumentation Widgets provides a rich library of ready-made high- resolution controls which provide for a realistic appearance.