BinaryExtendedText .NET Ver. 1.0 is an advanced Microsoft .NET WinForms© control, providing a Visual Studio .NET ©styled, feature rich and highly configurable, "Text box" control for the Microsoft WinForms© .NET platform.

BinaryExtendedText .NET is a typical .NET text box control, deriving from the .NET "TextBox" class, but in addition, provides its own custom painting functionality in order to support additional graphical user interface effects.

The control supports two different styles for its display, viz., Standard Windows 3D text box style and an "extended feature rich" style. You can switch between these two styles at any time by setting the control's ExtendedStyle property.

The "Extended" style provides for the following rich features :-
- Custom border color - The control supports setting custom border color. By default, when the control is in the extended style mode, its borders are drawn using the system specific Selected Items color. You can set a different color for drawing the control's border, by setting its BorderColor property.
- Custom border styles - The control supports two different border styles - Normal and Dotted . By setting the DrawBorder property to Dotted style, you can have the control's border drawn as a dotted line. You can also set the depth of the dots and the gap between the dots, by setting the appropriate properties.
- Mouse hovering effects - While in extended style mode and when the input focus is not on the control, whenever the mouse focus moves over and out of the control, the control's borders are drawn and cleared respectively, giving a "Visual Studio .NET style" control hovering effects. To change this default behaviour, you can set the control's ShowBorderAlways property to true, if you want the control's border to be displayed irrespective of whether the control has input focus or otherwise.
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