After several months passed to study the feasibility, it is now time to start real things.

The goal of the project is to create a new widget library for .Net 2 Windows Forms platform.

First of all I have to clarify some point about this project:

Q: Why another UI component library?

A: I took the decision to create a new library after tried existing ones on the market. Most of available libraries are good; however I always had the same issue: when adding a lot of controls on a form, performances are very bad. Everything was slow and the response time was not acceptable for a decent user experience.

In addition it was often really difficult to customize some minor graphical aspects of existing controls: who never tried to change minor things like textbox bordercolor and encountered difficulties to achieve it?

Q: So why not using WPF?

A: For me WPF is a very promising technology. However it is still very young and the needed effort to learn it is important. A lot of developers are still using Windows Forms and I think that this technology is not yet died and has still a beautiful future.

For these reason I decided to create my own library. I know that the creating a set of components is a big task but motivation is the key of everything!

I will use this blog to communicate about the progresses made.

More information soon!