Better Thumbnail Browser loading and viewing control for .NET
Thumbnail gallery control for .NET WinForms (C#, VB.net). ListView-like image loader, image viewer and image browser component.
- Better Thumbnail Browser is a thumbnail viewing and loading control for .NET Windows Forms
- 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.
- Super-easy to use and learn
Image Viewer .NET control with powerful features
Better Thumbnail Browser is a WinForms control for displaying and loading (mostly) image thumbnails. Thumbnails are viewed in listview-like image gallery.
Viewing and loading image thumbnails is a sophisticated task, so this .NET control does these things for you, right out of the box:
- View images in any folder on HDD
- Load images from any source you want (including database) with minimum coding needed.
- Load thumbnails on background. All the thread operations and thread synchronization are performed automatically.
- Resize images with high-quality image resampling.
- Optimized order of loading of images - allows loading the thumbnails in view first, then all other thumbnails in the predefined order.
- Supports starting, pausing and restarting the image loading on demand.
- Smooth thumbnail zooming on the fly (e.g. using a mouse-wheel)
- Completely flicker-free, optimized, and smooth
- Super-customizable: Set shadows, borders, padding, spacing of all elements
- Grouping of images - create customizable collapsible groups of thumbnails
- Supports multi-line text, both in image items and column headers
- Inbuilt sorting with multi-column sorting support
- Supports checkboxes (both 2-state or 3-state)
- Customizable tooltips on all elements
Because Better Thumbnail Browser inherits from feature-rich Better ListView, it is feature-packed and supports many advanced features that no other thumbnail control can offer (for example: Multi-column sorting, Multi-line text, Groups, Three-state checkboxes and many more).
It is the ultimate image loader, viewer and browser control for .NET.
Cut development time by up to 50%
The biggest advantage of Better Thumbnail Browser control for .NET is that it saves you development time.
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. This not only saves you time, but also provides the end-user with a smooth, polished experience with no flickering or glitches - if you were to implement such polished experience yourself, it would be a considerable investment.
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.
Better Thumbnail Browser comes with numerous samples with full source code, and with excellent documentation with examples.
Finally, optional Priority support can be purchased with the Better Thumbnail Browser control, which entails you to custom code samples and more.
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High-quality source code available for optional purchase
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.
Seamless integration with .NET 2.0 and higher
