It finds and displays information as you type. It suggests web sites you have visited. It looks for files and folders on your hard drive or network. It even makes suggestions from any data source–a database, collection object, or a simple array.

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Enter it once, and never again, thanks to the magic of autocompletion. The second time filling out a field, simply enter the first few letters, and watch as AutoComplete makes suggestions based on all previous data entered. If it finds exactly what you were planning to type—congratulations, you're on the way to some serious productivity.

There are two ways to make suggestions in text and combo box fields: Inline mode selects the closest match directly in front of the cursor, while DropDown mode displays all matching suggestions in a drop-down window. The mode which works best depends on your application, and can be set separately for each control.

AutoComplete finds files anywhere on your computer or wherever you've been on the web. This feature will make the fields in your application work exactly like the system Open, Save and Run dialog boxes, or the address bar in a modern web browser.

But it gets better. AutoComplete goes a step beyond what you'd expect from a System Dialog and even displays an associated icon beside each suggested file or folder. Enabling this feature is as simple as setting one property, and easily scores your program an extra point for usability.

AutoComplete can make suggestions from several different types of data sources. It can be data-bound to any object that implements IList, such as a database record set, array or ArrayList. Or you can use the Items property if your requirements are simple. In practice, it works much the same as a ComboBox, making databinding fast, flexible and familliar.

AutoComplete includes support for complete or partial owner-drawing and owner-measuring. Partial owner-draw empowers you to draw only the parts of each item that require customization, leaving the rest up to the system. For example, the field in the bottom part of the screenshot is only owner-drawing the gray Members text; the type names, icons, and background colors are drawn automatically.

Owner-measure enables you to include items of varying height in the same list. Of course, owner-drawn lists render flicker free and resize as lightning fast as their non-owner-drawn counterparts.

Pressing the delete key causes the selected suggestion to be removed from the list. When the suggestion list is bound to a custom data source, or for applications where special processing is required when a suggestion is removed, an event is raised which allows you to perform the required actions.

This feature may also be turned off.

In most situations, you'll never need to open the code editor. Like all our controls, complete design-time support is a top priority.

Just drop an AutoCompleteManager component on a form to add autocompletion support to all existing text and combo boxes. Any custom controls you use which inherit from TextBox or ComboBox are also compatible with AutoComplete.

This architecture makes it a piece of cake to add or remove AutoComplete from existing applications.

Part of the formula behind every successful product lies in the manufacturing process. Software development is no different, and that's why we've invested heavily in an automated build process that enforces strict unit tests, design patterns and framework conventions. Every name down to every last field of every little class is planned, written, tested, and carefully documented.