NavBarControl.View Property

Gets or sets an object specifying the control’s paint style.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraNavBar

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraNavBar.v19.2.dll

Declaration

C#

[Browsable(false)]
public BaseViewInfoRegistrator View { get; set; }

VB.NET

<Browsable(False)>
Public Property View As BaseViewInfoRegistrator

Property Value

Type	Description
DevExpress.XtraNavBar.ViewInfo.BaseViewInfoRegistrator	A BaseViewInfoRegistrator object or descendant specifying the control’s paint style.

Remarks

This property supports the internal infrastructure and typically is not intended to be used directly from your code.

At design time, you can change the control’s paint style via the Designer dialog.

To change the view via code, you can do the following:

• Assign the required View name to the NavBarControl.PaintStyleName property.
• Change the View type via the NavBarControl.PaintStyleKind property.
• Assign an appropriate registrator object defining the paint scheme to the View property. The list of available registrators can be obtained via the NavBarControl.AvailableNavBarViews property.

Example

The following sample code applies all available paint style to the NavBarControl sequentially. A message box is displayed after each style is applied.

The NavBarControl.AvailableNavBarViews property is used to obtain the list of Views available for the control. Each View is applied to the control via the NavBarControl.View property.

C#

using DevExpress.XtraNavBar.ViewInfo;
//...
for (int i = 0; i < navBarControl1.AvailableNavBarViews.Count; i++) {
   BaseViewInfoRegistrator vir = 
     navBarControl1.AvailableNavBarViews[i] as BaseViewInfoRegistrator;
   navBarControl1.View = vir;
   MessageBox.Show("The " + vir.ViewName + " painting style.", "Information");
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraNavBar.ViewInfo
'...
Dim I As Integer
For I = 0 To NavBarControl1.AvailableNavBarViews.Count - 1
   Dim vir As BaseViewInfoRegistrator = NavBarControl1.AvailableNavBarViews(I)
   NavBarControl1.View = vir
   MessageBox.Show("The " + vir.ViewName + " painting style.", "Information")
Next

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the View property.

Note

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C#

how-to-set-the-navbargroups-height-e2060/CS/MyView.cs#L34

Rectangle rect = base.CalcObjectMinBounds(e);
MyViewInfoRegistrator view = NavBar.View as MyViewInfoRegistrator;
rect.Height = view.GroupHeight;

how-to-create-a-ribbon-application-menu-which-looks-similar-to-the-office-2010-one-e2759/CS/Office2010StyleApplicationMenu102/ApplicationButtonDropDownControl.cs#L19

{
    navBarControl1.View = new CustomNavPaneViewInfoRegistrator();
}

how-to-hide-the-group-header-of-a-navigation-pane-e1005/CS/Form1.cs#L107

private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
    navBarControl1.View = new CustomNavPaneViewInfoRegistrator();
    //navBarControl1.ResetStyles();

navbarcontrol-how-to-move-overflow-panel-to-the-top-of-the-control-t501318/CS/Form1.cs#L6

    CustomViewInfoRegistrator viewInfoRegistrator = new CustomViewInfoRegistrator();
    navBarControl1.View = viewInfoRegistrator;
}

VB.NET

how-to-set-the-navbargroups-height-e2060/VB/MyView.vb#L42

Dim rect As Rectangle = MyBase.CalcObjectMinBounds(e)
Dim view As MyViewInfoRegistrator = TryCast(NavBar.View, MyViewInfoRegistrator)
rect.Height = view.GroupHeight

how-to-create-a-ribbon-application-menu-which-looks-similar-to-the-office-2010-one-e2759/VB/Office2010StyleApplicationMenu102/ApplicationButtonDropDownControl.vb#L17

Private Sub ApplicationButtonDropDownControl_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    navBarControl1.View = New CustomNavPaneViewInfoRegistrator()
End Sub

how-to-hide-the-group-header-of-a-navigation-pane-e1005/VB/Form1.vb#L99

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    navBarControl1.View = New CustomNavPaneViewInfoRegistrator()
    'navBarControl1.ResetStyles();

navbarcontrol-how-to-move-overflow-panel-to-the-top-of-the-control-t501318/VB/Form1.vb#L8

    Dim viewInfoRegistrator As New CustomViewInfoRegistrator()
    navBarControl1.View = viewInfoRegistrator
End Sub