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Navigation Controls

  • Oct 18, 2020
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This section describes the DevExpress controls that perform navigation within your application, from simple side bars to Windows Modern inspired tile bars.

Accordion Control

The AccordionControl is an advanced navigation control that allows you to create hierarchical user interfaces that are compact and easy to navigate. Key features include:

  • An unlimited number of hierarchy levels.
  • Data-binding support.
  • Integrated search field.

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The Navigation Bar is a well-known variation of the side navigation bar that features collapsible groups with items within it. Key features include:

  • Three available Views that affect NavBar Control behavior and appearance.
  • Layout flexibility and runtime customization options.
  • The capability to embed any control to a NavBar item.
  • A set of built-in commands that allow you to program various actions in XAML markup.
  • Interaction with OfficeNavigationBar.

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Office Navigation Bar

An Outlook 2013-inspired navigation bar that supports integration with the Navigation Bar. Supports the following features:

  • Automatically retrieves Navigation Bar groups and presents them as its own items.
  • A built-in Customization Button that allows end-users to display more or fewer items and re-arrange them as needed.
  • Supports Peek Panels that can be attached to Office Navigation Bar items and displayed on hover.

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Tile Nav Pane

A hierarchical multi-level tile menu that provides navigation in a touch-friendly manner. Key features include:

  • Supports three levels of navigation for displaying categories, items and sub-items.
  • The top-level bar can host regular and drop-down buttons.
  • Embedded Home button.
  • Built-in navigation breadcrumbs that help your end-users to keep track of their current location in the navigation hierarchy.
  • Various animation effects.

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Tile Bar

A simple navigation bar with tiles. Any tile within a Tile Bar can display an associated drop-down control. This goes for any object, including another Tile Bar for implementing multi-level navigation bars.

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TreeView

The TreeView is a navigation control that displays self-referenced and hierarchical data.

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Wizard Control

The WPF Wizard Control is a handy tool for building wizards - dialogs with multiple pages that guide your end users through a specific process (e.g., product installation). The list below outlines main Wizard Control features:

  • Three types of pages, each with its own mark-up and set of features.
  • Embedded wizard buttons.
  • Various page templates.
  • Rich navigation capabilities.
  • Suits for creating both simple wizards, where pages change one by one in a strict order, and wizards with a non-linear page sequence, where one page can lead to various other pages depending on the specific criteria.

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Hamburger Menu

The WPF Hamburger Menu is used to implement the navigation UI that emulates popular web applications. Its features include:

  • Adaptive layout.
  • Different types of navigation items: regular, check and radio buttons, and hyperlinks.
  • Sub menus displaying items in side panels and “favorite” items directly in the main menu.
  • MVVM Support.

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WPF Navigation Controls