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190 lines
6.8 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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<head>
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<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
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<title>Overview</title>
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<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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<link href="prettify.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
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<script type="text/javascript" src="prettify.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="lang-vb.js"></script><link href="../resources/main.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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</head>
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<body onload="prettyPrint()"><div class="placing">
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<br><table class="navigation"><tr>
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<td class="navigation-previous"></td>
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<td class="navigation-index"><a href="../../../better-thumbnail-browser/documentation.html"><strong>Index</strong></a></td>
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<td class="navigation-next"><a href="../../../better-thumbnail-browser/quick-start-guide.html"><strong>Quick Start »
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</strong></a></td>
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</tr></table>
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<br><h1>Overview</h1>
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<div class="banner">
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<a href="../../../better-thumbnail-browser.html"><img src="../resources/better-thumbnail-browser-overview.gif" alt="Better Thumbnail Browser" class="ss"></a>
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<div class="inside">
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<div class="text">Better Thumbnail Browser for .NET (C#, VB) - Image thumbnail viewing and loading control</div>
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<span class="dbtn-c dbtn-hilight"><span class="dbtn-w"><a href="../../../betterthumbnailbrowser.exe" class="dbtn">Download</a></span></span>
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<span class="dbtn-c"><span class="dbtn-w"><a href="../../../better-thumbnail-browser.html" class="dbtn">More Info</a></span></span>
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</div>
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</div>
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<p class="images"><img src="overview.png"></p>
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<h2>Quick Summary</h2>
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<p>Better Thumbnail Browser is a WinForms control for displaying and
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loading (mostly) image thumbnails. The control is written from scratch
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entirely in C#.</p>
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<p>Better Thumbnail Browser inherits from a successful and mature Better
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ListView control.</p>
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<p>Viewing and loading image thumbnails can be a sophisticated task, so
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this control is designed to do these things for you:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>Scan folder on disk and load images.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Load images from any source you want (e.g. database) with
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minimum coding needed.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Perform all the thread operations and thread synchronization for
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you.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Resize images.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Always load viewed thumbnails first, then all other in the
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predefined order.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Allow starting, stopping and restarting the loading on
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demand.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>It has been designed to completely replace the regular .NET list
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view control, and it comes with many additional features, improvements and
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better native look and feel (including Aero support).</p>
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<h2>Features</h2>
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<p></p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>Automatic loading of image thumbnails from a selected folder
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on the disk.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Handles multithreaded loading for you, no extra coding needed
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for synchronization.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Support for custom loading providers, custom loading order and
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multi-pass loading.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Viewing image thumbnails of arbitrary size, with customized
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borders and paddings.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>High-quality image resampling.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Support for smart loading: Thumbnails in the view can be
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loaded first, then all other.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Thumbnail zooming on the fly.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Inherits many features from Better ListView control (for
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example: Multi-column sorting, Multi-line text, Groups, Three-state
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check boxes and much more).</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Compatibility</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>Compatible with: Visual Studio 2012, 2008, 2005 (and newer),
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with full designer support.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>For C#, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), managed C++, and other CLI
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languages.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Compatible with .NET 4.5, 4.0 and 4.0 Client Profile, 3.5 and
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3.5 Client Profile, 3.0, 2.0, and newer.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Runs on Windows 8, 7, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, and newer, both
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32-bit and 64-bit.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Benefits</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>Inherits from powerful Better ListView control, which has more
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features and fixes all quirks of the regular .NET ListView
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control.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Fully managed, 100% C# code. No more Win32 API.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Minimum learning needed.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Single DLL file with simple XCOPY deployment,
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royalty-free.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Great native look and feel (including Aero support).</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Because Better Thumbnail Browser is written entirely from scratch in
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pure managed code, it adds functionality hardly achievable by just
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wrapping the regular .NET WinForms control. Such features include image
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thumbnails, data binding, multi-line items ... and more!</p>
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<p>The Better Thumbnail Browser source code consists of a single C#
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project without any external dependencies, it is clean, readable, fully
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commented and readily extensible.</p>
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<p>You can <strong><em>save time</em></strong> with many of the inbuilt
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features (sorting, item reordering...).</p>
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<br><div class="banner">
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<a href="../../../better-thumbnail-browser.html"><img src="../resources/better-thumbnail-browser-overview.gif" alt="Better Thumbnail Browser" class="ss"></a>
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<div class="inside">
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<div class="text">Better Thumbnail Browser for .NET (C#, VB) - Image thumbnail viewing and loading control</div>
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<span class="dbtn-c dbtn-hilight"><span class="dbtn-w"><a href="../../../betterthumbnailbrowser.exe" class="dbtn">Download</a></span></span>
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<span class="dbtn-c"><span class="dbtn-w"><a href="../../../better-thumbnail-browser.html" class="dbtn">More Info</a></span></span>
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</div>
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</div>
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<table class="navigation"><tr>
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<td class="navigation-previous"></td>
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<td class="navigation-index"><a href="../../../better-thumbnail-browser/documentation.html"><strong>Index</strong></a></td>
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<td class="navigation-next"><a href="../../../better-thumbnail-browser/quick-start-guide.html"><strong>Quick Start »
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</strong></a></td>
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</tr></table>
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<br><table class="footer"><tr>
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<td class="footer-title">Better Thumbnail Browser Documentation
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</td>
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<td class="footer-copyright">
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Copyright © 2010-2012 <a href="../../../index.html" target="_blank">ComponentOwl.com</a>
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</html>
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