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As reported on Robert Green’s blog, some members of the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET team have created a freely available Visual Basic Power Pack that contains seven WinForm controls to help you create more powerful client applications:
· BlendPanel – A panel that provides a gradient fill background with configurable start and end colors
· Notification Window – A window that displays Windows Messenger-like “toast” messages
· UtilityToolbar - A graphical toolbar that looks and behaves like the one in Internet Explorer
· ImageButton - A button that displays an image on a transparent background so all of your buttons don’t have to have the standard rectangular look
· TaskFrame - A container for TaskPanes that behaves like the TaskPane in Word 2003 or Excel 2003. The TaskPanes are collapsible windows that can contain any other control.
· FolderViewer – A control to display folder hierarchies
· FileViewer – A control that displays files in a specified folder