BCGControlBar new release preview

Professional GUI controls for MFC/.NET/WinForms

Everything you need for building a modern-looking UI for the Windows desktop application

  • Microsoft Office-style Ribbon Bar
  • Chart Control, Gauges, and Diagrams
  • Visual Studio-like Docking Panes
  • Customizable Toolbars and Menus
  • Calendar, planner control
  • Grid and Report controls
  • Visual Themes and Visual Designer
  • Advanced Edit Control
  • ...and many other features

Your UI will never look outdated if you're using our products!

Office-style UI with Backstage View

MS Office-style UI

The library provides a Microsoft Office look and feel. All the required components, such as Ribbon with Backstage View and tens of Office-like controls, are ready for you.

The product offers the following Microsoft Office-like visual themes:

  • Office 2007 (Blue, Black, Silver, and Aqua)
  • Office 2010 (Blue, Dark, and Silver)
  • Office 2013-2022 (White, Gray, Dark Gray, and Colorful)
  • Windows native ("Scenic")

Our WYSIWYG Ribbon Designer allows developers to create modern, nice-looking, MS Office-like applications in minutes.

Modernizing your application look was never so easy!

VisualStudio-like docking panes

Visual Studio-like docking panes

The rich set of advanced control bars (panes) provided by our products can give your application more customization abilities and a modern look.

  • Tabbed docking panes
  • Detachable panes
  • Auto-hide panes
  • Resizable docking panes
  • Nested docking containers
  • Visual Studio-style docking markers
  • Persistent docking layout
  • Fully customizable appearance

Using these panes, both developers and end users can easily build the required application layout.

Chart and Gauge controls preview

Charts and Gauges

Our GUI products offer you a rich set of highly-performed, nice-looking, and fully customizable Chart and Gauge controls:

  • There are more than 30 2D and 3D chart types
  • Realtime and history charts
  • 35+ ready-to-use chart color themes
  • Built-in chart data binding
  • A wide range of nice-looking gauges, including knobs, numeric indicators, circular and linear gauges, and more
  • Gauges visual container with layout support
  • WYSIWYG Visual Designer provides an easy way to create sophisticated digital dashboards
Grid and Report Controls preview

Grid and Report Controls

Our Grid and Report controls give you the ability to visualize data in both table and hierarchical formats. The benefits of our controls are:

  • Excel and Outlook look and feel
  • Virtual grid
  • Sorting and filtering
  • Conditional formatting
  • Spark lines
  • In-place editing
  • Drag and drop support
  • Table style formatting
  • Group by box and field chooser
  • Custom and built-in visual themes
  • Export to various formats and data binding

Case studies

Take a look at our customers' success stories

ACD Systems is one of the world's leading developers and marketers of digital imaging software. ACD has accrued millions of users and over 33,000 corporate customers worldwide, including many Fortune 500 companies. Continue...

ACDSee case

The BCGControlBar Library was chosen for its rich feature set and MFC architecture.

Palette CAD develops 3D CAD program specifically for planning interiors. To date, the software has attracted more than 10,000 users the world over and has received multiple awards. Continue...

PaletteCAD case

BCGSoft has everything to create a state-of-the-art UI and we could customize it in a broad level due to source code...

Latest news

BCGControlBar Library Professional Edition and BCGSuite for MFC version 36.0 are available! In this release, we have added automatic icon inversing in the dark themes, a new SVG Sprite Generator tool, improved visual themes, introduced new and enhanced controls, and added other new features and improvements. See the full list of changes here.

BCGControlBar Library Professional Edition and BCGSuite for MFC version 35.1 are available! In this release, we improved the performance of the grid control, enhanced toolbar editor features, implemented a balanced layout of MDI tabbed groups, and added other new features and improvements. See the full list of changes here.

BCGControlBar Library for .NET version 7.1 is available! This release includes Visual Studio 2022 support and Windows 11 appearance. See the full list of changes here.

Our customers

Over 15,000+ companies around the world have chosen our library.

Microsoft
Oracle
Intel
Samsung
Audi
EA
Toyota
Bosch
Siemens
Caterpillar
Microsoft
Oracle
Intel
Samsung
Audi
EA
Toyota
Bosch
Siemens AG
Caterpillar
Deutsche Bank
SAP
IBM
Hewlett Packard
Hyundai Autoever
Tencent
Toshiba
Nokia
Suzuki
Xerox
Mitsubishi
Deutsche Bank
SAP
IBM
Hewlett Packard
Hyundai Autoever
Tencent
Toshiba
Nokia
Suzuki
Xerox
Mitsubishi

Testimonials

BCGSoft came to our rescue with its BCGControlBar Professional MFC extension library. This robust component implements many of the features found in advanced IDEs such as Visual Studio .NET.
Christopher Maughan, Nvidia logo
I'd like to extend my gratitude for your prompt and effective support!
Takahiro Katsura, Yamaha Motor logo
Thank you very much for all your help and your fantastic library. It fits almost exactly into our product and meets almost all our requirements!...
Markus Kuehl, HP logo
First, I want to thank you for creating a great product with a high level of coding style and robustness. Keep on!
Eldad Kuperman, Texas Instruments logo
First of all I would like to tell you how much we are convinced about the quality of the library "BCGControlBar Library Professional" and the high range of available modern business controls. We know that this a result of hard work of implementing and testing today and also in the past and it is for sure not an easy task! Congratulations! Keep up the good work!
Rainer Buschow, Advellence logo