About Component Owl

ComponentOwl.com has been founded in 2010 as a part of Dextronet.com network.

Our goal is to provide light-weight, flexible and reliable components and controls for Microsoft .NET that are both user friendly and developer friendly.

Important thing about our controls is that they always use system themes, look, and behavior. We are opposed to controls with custom look and non-standard behavior - in our opinion, controls that don’t look and behave as expected are not user friendly. Aero looks great, and so do our controls. That being said, you can still customize our controls to suit your special needs, using many properties and owner-drawing options.

Our first product is Better ListView. It is aimed to be the number one replacement for the regular .NET ListView included with Visual Studio. Read the <%= link_to "Better ListView story", story_path(featured_product) %>.

Support and development continuance

All components provided are used in our own products. For example, Better ListView is used in <%= link_to "task management software", "http://www.dextronet.com/swift-to-do-list-software" %> Swift To-Do List and professional photography processing application ImagingShop. This is your guarantee that we will not stop developing and supporting our components. It is quite common to find abandoned controls and components – and this won’t happen with Component Owl controls!

Quality assurance

Our quality assurance stands on three main pillars:

1. Unit tests. All code is covered by unit tests whenever possible.
2. Rigorous in-house testing with extreme focus on details.
3. Usage of our controls in real world. Thousands of users work with Better ListView every day, because it is part of Swift To-Do List and other software products developed by us, our partners and customers.

Our team

Our team members have more than 10+ years of experience with Win32 development on average.

Jiri Novotny – Dextronet.com founder and author of Swift To-Do List. Better ListView project leader and specs author. Jiri has focused on making Better ListView as user friendly as possible. He also ensured its compatibility with all Windows versions and themes.

Libor Tinka – Chief developer of Better ListView. Control development and C# expert. Libor is author of ImagingShop, digital photography processing application.

Ondrej Tomec – Dextronet.com developer, author of various software projects, and co-developer of Better ListView. Ondrej helped to make Better ListView better with his rigorous quality assurance procedures and code analysis.

Contact us today

Get in touch using the contact form in <%= link_to "Support", "/support" %> section, or directly at support (at) componentowl (dot) com.

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