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Are there any UI Components for Windows CE 6.0, other than the ones supplied by the Compact Framework and Visual Studio? I am developing applications with C# and the Compact Framework that need some visual design and the VS controls and components are not sufficient to me.

Thx your answers.

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See this similar question: Round buttons for Windows Mobile. It should be relevant for Windows CE 6 as well. The example is in native code, but you can use SDF 1.4 source code to convert it to C#. I guess you can use the technique shown to create more controls of your own.

I also found this article about creating custom controls for Windows Mobile that might suite Windows CE as well as it is based on the compact framework, but I have not read this through nor tested it.

What components exactly are you looking for?

Shaihi
Thank you so much Shaihi,Components about buttons,lists,menus etc. similar to windows application components.
jadeWarlord
@jadeWarlord: Please be more precise with the terminology that you use. There are both **components** and **controls** in the framework and they are different. What you see is mostly (but not always) a **control**. A **component** mostly (but not always) exposes some non-UI functionality.
Johann Gerell
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Windows CE6 R3 now supports Silverlight, so you can do some pretty cool things, although i think it's a little more complicated than typical Silverlight. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/silverlightforwe.mspx

Doobi
Doobi thx your answer,But our device not supported silverlight applications,It coast very high.
jadeWarlord
What costs too much? the license to include Silverlight in the image?
Shaihi
Yes.Provider said :(
jadeWarlord
Look at the bottom of this link to see what components each license plan includes: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/component-library.mspxIf you already have components from the `pro` license, then you can ask your OEM to include Silverlight in the image and it won't cost you more. It is an easy task for him to add Silverlight without adding hardware acceleration support. He just needs to add a catalog component.
Shaihi
Embedded Silverlight development is done in native language by the way **not** C#
Shaihi
Thx Shaihi I am working on it :)
jadeWarlord