The Krypton Toolkit is free, and also happens to be mind-blowingly awesome:
http://www.componentfactory.com/ (The Ribbon and Navigator are not free.)
A long time ago, I bookmarked a forum thread with links to free
controls. I haven't checked it out recently. I can't vouch for any of
the controls listed. But here is the link:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=184652 And here is one other thing:
http://www.codeplex.com/ASCENDNET And as someone else already said, CodeProject is full of free controls.
[quoted text, click to view] RealCat wrote:
> A few years ago, when the .NET version was still 1.1, there was a UI
> controls library called Magic Library. It was free, but now it's gone
> commercial.
>
> I'd like to add some UI eye candies for my freewares but don't need
> them that much to create them spending my time. I'd rather enhance the
> program itself. So I decided to search Google for those things with a
> keyword like ".NET free UI controls". But all that came out was
> commercial components that accidentally had the word "free" on the
> page (like "free trial").
>
> Is there any free UI controls except those came from .NET framework?
> I'd buy those commercial UI components if I were writing a commercial
> application that I can earn money from, but these are freewares that
[quoted text, click to view] RealCat wrote:
> A few years ago, when the .NET version was still 1.1, there was a UI
> controls library called Magic Library. It was free, but now it's gone
> commercial.
>
> I'd like to add some UI eye candies for my freewares but don't need
> them that much to create them spending my time. I'd rather enhance the
> program itself. So I decided to search Google for those things with a
> keyword like ".NET free UI controls". But all that came out was
> commercial components that accidentally had the word "free" on the
> page (like "free trial").
>
> Is there any free UI controls except those came from .NET framework?
> I'd buy those commercial UI components if I were writing a commercial
> application that I can earn money from, but these are freewares that
> I'm writing.
There are many articles at CodeProject.com, many of them are new or
