Reuters - Freddie Mac won approval
from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome
mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage
finance company may seek $10 billion.
Ford to retool U.S. plants for European cars: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Car maker Ford Motor Co is
drawing up plans to retool American plants to make small,
fuel-efficient passenger cars that it mainly makes and sells in
Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Reuters - The government is considering bringing
further criminal charges in the case involving two former Bear
Stearns executives indicted last month related to the collapse
of two hedge funds they oversaw, a federal prosecutor said on
Friday.
EU wants co-operation with SEC on rating agencies: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - The European Commission wants to
cooperate closely with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) on the planned regulation of credit rating
agencies, the German financial weekly Euro am Sonntag reported.
AFP - US President George W. Bush assured Americans Saturday that the battered US economy will "pull through" despite continuing housing woes and a spike in inflation.
KNOCKS WinControls Suite is geared to meet all your UI requirements for WinForm applications development. Packaged with innovative technologies and built with user-experience in mind, WinControls Suite gives you complete freedom to focus on the business logic while it takes care of the design.
WinControls Suite includes powerful controls like:
KNOCKS WinGrid, an advanced and highly extensible Windows Forms grid control for your .NET applications. KNOCKS Grid can use any .NET control as cell viewer or editor and that has a real WYSIWYG editor for efficient and fast set up. You name the feature; it’s in this grid, including Outlook-style grouping, master/details views, pixel-perfect XP look, fixed rows and columns, insertion rows, summary rows, and much more.
KNOCKS Docking Manager allows VS.NET or Office styled docking windows control for your Windows Forms applications. This control helps you create a next-gen uncluttered yet flexible user interface.
KNOCKS WinGrouper, a container group control with impressive visual capabilities, with the ability to expand and collapse the container area of the group box. Simulates the rich Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 look and feel.
KNOCKS OutlookBar, the MS Outlook 2003 styled Navigation bar control. Using the extensive designer support and in-place editing of objects, display this brilliant navigation/shortcut bar to your application users. KNOCKS Explorerbar simulates the WinXP Explorer look and feel.
KNOCKS TabControls, a full set of features for a tab-metaphor user interface. It allows complete control over the tab and the supports Visual Studio like tabbed MDI child windows.
KNOCKS SpellChecker, allows for checking the spelling of several controls including TextBoxes, RichTextBoxes. It can check the spelling as the end user types, and automatically correct commonly misspelled words. Misspelled words are underlined with the familiar red 'squiggly' line.
KNOCKS Combo, package enriches the standard combo-box with standard entries like Fonts, Colors, TimeZones etc. KNOCKS Inputs are standard textboxes for handling Numeric, Currency, DateTime, Calculator, IP Address inputs.
KNOCKS Alert Popup, to instantly enable your Windows .NET applications with the popular MSN Instant Messenger and Outlook 2003 style popup alerts windows.
KNOCKS TaskSchedular enables you to create system tasks through its rich API. KNOCKS PrintManager lets you print (with preview also) any control on your application or even the whole WinForm itself. It automatically adjusts pages for scrollable controls like grids, listboxes etc.
KNOCKS SuperToolTip, an extended replacement for the standard .NET ToolTip object, providing a wealth of impressive features, including the ever popular Windows XP styled "Balloon ToolTip" style, imaging support, multiline and title. Explore SuperToolTip to get that rich Office 2007 look and feel today.
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Picturebox displays an image with extra properties like gradient background (with any angle between two colors), The image can be adjusted regarding its transparency, rotation and sizing. A small Overlay Image can be added at a specified position. An overlay text can be specified at any angle and position. A border of different styles and color can be added. AnimatedPictureBox further extends the PictureBox by animating between different states, which all can be independent of each other.
KNOCKS provides the common controls you always wanted. Make anything appear off of a drop-down. Show progress text on top of a progress bar with a simple property. Easily Encrypt/Decrypt your data with a simple Crypto component. These controls are chock full of functionality that you won’t find in the Microsoft controls, making it easier and more full-featured to build professional and compelling user interfaces with KNOCKS WinControls Suite.
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - It's been an educational week. We learned what happens when everyone tries try to activate their iPhones at the same time, what people will pay for free software, and what can go wrong when you tick off your IT folks.
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago, with
Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic
increase in the number of Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 units sold,
market researcher NPD reported on Thursday.
AP - With a Yahoo Inc. search deal uncertain at best, Microsoft Corp. plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected in the next year to whip its unprofitable online operations into shape.