John Dyer

I started working on a few new controls that eventually might find their way into a control suite of some kind. First, I built a AutoCompleteTextBox much like the To Email field in Gmail. When you type in the textbox, a search takes place and you get a dropdownlist of data. In the pic below, I bound "FirstName, LastName, Email" and then set FormatString = "{0} {1} <{2}>". This way all three fields are searchable. I also set ValueSeparator="," so that it could handle multiple values.

Right now it sends all the data to the client, but I'm adding in a XMLHttp system that pulls the data dynamically, like google's new autocomplete search feature.  That should make for a pretty powerful control. Here's a preview:

The second control uses a lot of the above code, but does it with a dropdownlist/combobox/autocomplete interface that's pretty popular. I'd like to combine this with the ability to have tabular data in the dropdownlist. This may have to be two different controls, but it'd be nice to have one really powerful dropdownlist control.

 

Just found out about Paint.NET, a C# Paint program with a really great feature set. It's not Photoshop, but it's still very powerful and totally open source.

FreeTextBox 3.0 is doing pretty well. Since the 3.0 release a two weeks ago, we've had a several thousand downloads. And a fair number of “Pro” licenses have been purchased since it was available this weekend. Thanks for making FreeTextBox such a success!