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<Base title="Better Thumbnail Browser loading and viewing control for .NET" description="Thumbnail gallery control for .NET WinForms (C#, VB.net). ListView-like image loader, image viewer and image browser component.">
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<h1 class="text-3xl font-bold text-owl-blue mb-2">Better Thumbnail Browser loading and viewing control for .NET</h1>
<p class="text-gray-600 mb-8">Thumbnail gallery control for .NET WinForms (C#, VB.net). ListView-like image loader, image viewer and image browser component.</p>
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<span class="px-4 py-2 border-b-2 border-owl-blue text-owl-blue font-medium text-sm">Overview</span>
<a href="/better-thumbnail-browser/screenshots" class="px-4 py-2 text-gray-500 hover:text-owl-blue text-sm">Screenshots</a>
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{[
'Better Thumbnail Browser is a <strong>thumbnail viewing and loading control for .NET Windows Forms</strong>',
'View and automatically display thumbnails of images, graphic files, documents, video files etc.',
'Compatible with: Visual Studio 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2005, with full designer support.',
'For C#, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), managed C++, and other CLI languages.',
'Compatible with .NET 4.5, .NET 4, .NET 3.5, .NET 3, .NET 2, and newer. Supports .NET Client Profile.',
'Runs on Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, both 32-bit and 64-bit.',
'Native look and feel, always uses the current system theme (including Aero support)',
'Saves development time with rich inbuilt functionality',
'Easy to use and well-documented',
'Written in pure managed C# code. Fast and light-weight',
'No dependencies',
'Optimized and smooth',
'Inherits from mature Better ListView control',
'FIPS-compliant, CLS-compliant, digitally signed and strongly named assembly.',
'Easy royalty-free XCOPY deployment. Single DLL file that has just 250kB~ when compressed.',
].map(item => (
<li class="flex gap-2"><span class="text-green-500 mt-0.5 shrink-0">✓</span><span set:html={item}></span></li>
))}
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<h2 class="text-xl font-bold text-owl-blue mt-8 mb-3">Image Viewer .NET control with powerful features</h2>
<p class="text-sm text-gray-700 mb-4">Better Thumbnail Browser is a WinForms control for displaying and loading (mostly) <strong>image thumbnails</strong>. Thumbnails are viewed in <strong>listview-like image gallery</strong>.</p>
<p class="text-sm text-gray-700 mb-3">Viewing and loading image thumbnails is a sophisticated task, so this .NET control does these things for you, right out of the box:</p>
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{[
'<strong>View images in any folder on HDD</strong>',
'<strong>Load images from any source you want</strong> (including database) with minimum coding needed.',
'<strong>Load thumbnails on background</strong>. All the thread operations and thread synchronization are performed automatically.',
'<strong>Resize images with high-quality image resampling</strong>.',
'<strong>Optimized order of loading of images</strong> — allows loading the thumbnails in view first, then all other thumbnails in the predefined order.',
'<strong>Supports starting, pausing and restarting the image loading</strong> on demand.',
'<strong>Smooth thumbnail zooming</strong> on the fly (e.g. using a mouse-wheel)',
'<strong>Completely flicker-free</strong>, optimized, and smooth',
'Super-customizable: <strong>Set shadows, borders, padding, spacing of all elements</strong>',
'<strong>Grouping of images</strong> — create customizable collapsible groups of thumbnails',
'Supports <strong>multi-line text</strong>, both in image items and column headers',
'<strong>Inbuilt sorting with multi-column sorting</strong> support',
'Supports <strong>checkboxes</strong> (both 2-state or 3-state)',
'Customizable <strong>tooltips</strong> on all elements',
].map(item => (
<li class="flex gap-2"><span class="text-green-500 mt-0.5 shrink-0">✓</span><span set:html={item}></span></li>
))}
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<img src="http://assets.componentowl.com/screenshots/43/overview_original_1354296079.png?1354270879" alt="Better Thumbnail Browser Overview" class="mx-auto max-w-full rounded" />
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<h2 class="text-xl font-bold text-owl-blue mt-8 mb-3">Cut development time by up to 50%</h2>
<p class="text-sm text-gray-700 mb-3">The biggest advantage of Better Thumbnail Browser control for .NET is that it saves you development time.</p>
<p class="text-sm text-gray-700 mb-3">For many projects where GUI is important, Better Thumbnail Browser can significantly cut development time. The complex logic of loading, displaying and viewing the thumbnails is done automatically for you.</p>
<p class="text-sm text-gray-700 mb-3">Furthermore, you will save time thanks to many inbuilt features that work out of the box, such as sorting or item reordering. Also, full designer support allows you to do many customizations with zero code.</p>
<p class="text-sm text-gray-700 mb-6">Better Thumbnail Browser comes with numerous samples with full source code, and with excellent documentation with examples.</p>
<h2 class="text-xl font-bold text-owl-blue mt-8 mb-3">High-quality source code available for optional purchase</h2>
<p class="text-sm text-gray-700">In case you require a full source code, it can be purchased as part of the Site or Enterprise licenses. The Better Thumbnail Browser source code consists of a single C# project without any external dependencies, it is clean, readable, fully commented and readily extensible.</p>
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<a href="/better-thumbnail-browser.html" class="block bg-green-500 hover:bg-green-600 text-white text-center font-semibold py-3 px-4 rounded mb-3 transition text-sm">Download Free Trial — With sample projects</a>
<a href="/pricing-licensing/better-thumbnail-browser.html" class="block bg-orange-500 hover:bg-orange-600 text-white text-center font-semibold py-3 px-4 rounded mb-3 transition text-sm">See Pricing &amp; Licensing</a>
<p class="text-xs text-gray-500 text-center">Version 3.15 / May 27, 2015</p>
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<p class="font-semibold text-sm mb-3">Seamless integration with .NET 2.0 and higher</p>
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<li><a href="/better-thumbnail-browser/quick-start-guide" class="text-owl-blue-light hover:underline">See Quick Start Guide</a></li>
<li><a href="/better-thumbnail-browser/documentation" class="text-owl-blue-light hover:underline">See Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="/better-thumbnail-browser/class-reference" class="text-owl-blue-light hover:underline">See Class Reference</a></li>
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