Robert Green has announced the release of the VB Power Pack on gotdotnet.

The Power Pack controls are:

• BlendPanel. Provides a gradiant fill background you can use on forms. Set the start color, the end color and the direction for the gradiant.


• Notification Window. Provides a way to display messages using “toast“ like Windows Messenger uses.


• UtilityToolbar. Provides a graphical toolbar that looks and behaves very much like the one in Internet Explorer.


• ImageButton. Provides a button that displays images on a transparent background. So your button displays just the image and not the whole rectangle with the image.


• TaskFrame. A container for TaskPanes. This control looks and behaves like the TaskPane in Word 2003 or Excel 2003. The TaskPanes are collapsable windows that can contain any control.


• FolderViewer. Displays a hierarchy of folders on a computer.


• FileViewer. Displays the files in a specfied folder.