Circular progress bar

I created a small C# control that represent a progress bar, with a circular design.

The code is available here

You can customize a few features:

Number of circles

Color of circles

The font use to render the progress value

The format string to use for the progress value

The moving speed of the circle update when in action

You can set the min and max value of the progress

The code use the GDI API to create the animation of the small circles into a main circle. The pourcentage in the center is controled independently of the circles animation.

I used the cos and sin function to calculate the positions of the inner circles, but I could also use the GDI Transformation (rotation and translation).

One improvement could be to use a independent thread to replace the usage of the timer that block the other processing in the main thread of the application.

I used the Color.FromArgb to simplify the creation of the small circles colors degraded. It’s really easy.

Rich panel control with expander written in C#

You can check my new expander (with a header and content controls) here

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I added a expander feature to the RichPanel that I developped a few weeks ago.

The expander is optionnal.

The code is available for download here

VisualStudio Addin deploy

Here is a link about VisualStudio Addin deploy. It explain how to create a setup to install the addin that you have developped.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2005/08/18/453218.aspx