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Designbox Community Design Store

Welcome!

Welcome to the Designbox Community Design Store. Here we keep complete Design Libraries developed either by the community or in collaboration with control vendors. Each library contains one or more Design Palettes that will be installed and available immediately in your Design Gallery within Visual Studio. And they're all free!

Installation Instructions

Microsoft System.Windows.Forms Designs

The Design Palettes listed below work with controls contained in the System.Windows.Forms namespace. Those are the controls that are published by Microsoft and ship with Visual Studio. You do not need to purchase any other control libraries in order to use the designs listed on this page. If you would like to download designs for controls from other vendors, please select the vendor from the Certified Control Vendors list.

Dialog Forms

Dialog Forms

File size: 431KB

Last updated: 6/30/2009

Includes some of the most common dialog form designs such as a Login Form, Property Page, OK/Cancel Dialog, and a Wizard Design.  All of these designs target the System.Windows.Forms.Form class.

This palette is pre-installed with Designbox and Designbox Gallery.

Dialog Buttons

Dialog Buttons

File size: 49KB

Last updated: 6/30/2009

Never type 'OK' again! This palette includes preset buttons for all of your favorite uses.

This palette is pre-installed with Designbox and Designbox Gallery.

Dialog Forms

Starter Menus

File size: 70KB

Last updated: 6/29/2009

Comes with a handful of preset starter menus including simple "File, Edit, View" menus as well as File and Edit submenus to get your application started more quickly.

This palette is pre-installed with Designbox and Designbox Gallery.

Dialog Forms

Common Controls

File size: 224KB

Last updated: 7/2/2009

The design palette that you cannot do without!  It includes many default designs for controls contained in the Common Controls Toolbox Tab. ComboBox designs include preset 'Items' properties for days of the week, True and False,  and Yes and No.  There are also ListView designs to get you started with predefined Columns and TabControl designs preloaded with different TabPage arrangments.

This palette is pre-installed with Designbox and Designbox Gallery.

Dialog Forms

Contact Info

File size: 174KB

Last updated: 6/12/2009

This palette contains designs to get you started if you need to collect contact information. There are dozens of predefined Labels and ComboBoxes so that you can build your customer contact form in a matter of seconds!  It also includes ComboBox designs that are preloaded with the State names of the U.S. and countries of the world.

This palette is pre-installed with Designbox and Designbox Gallery.

Timers

Some Useful Timers...

File size: 3KB

Last updated: 6/29/2009

Includes designs for quickly creating System.Windows.Forms.Timer components with common intervals.

This palette is pre-installed with Designbox and Designbox Gallery.