Inherits CollectionBase class of the System.Collection namespace.

Represents a collection of the objects, for which can be raised events ItemPropertyChanged and for collection – CollectionChanged. Serves as a base class for  ToolBarButtonCollection, MDIContainerCollection, CommandBarCollection, StatusBarPaneCollection.

   The GlobalSettings class represents a set of static properties specific for the environment of the application.
Public member SerializationCulture specifies current culture info, which provides information about a specific culture, such as the names of the culture, the writing system, the calendar used, and how to format dates and sort strings. This culture info is used on serialization. Its default value is "en_US".  Integer variable BitsPerPixel  identifies the color depth of current color scheme. The default value is 16. The tracking during dragging of the frame defines such variables as DragFrameThicknessFloat, DragFrameThiknessDock. InitComplete indicates if the initialization of the application is complete. The default value is true.  UseLowColorImages variable specifies if the low color images will be used. The default  value is false.

The Global Utils class represents a set of static function specific for working with command bars and docking bars. Function AlignRectToRect, AlignRectToRectInner, AlignRectToRectOuter,  ExcludeRectangle  specify the bounds of the rectangle to which a control should be docked according to current bounds of the docking pane, its dockstyle.  For specification of the current DockEdge and DockStyle used such functions as IndexToDockEdge, DockStyleFromDockEdge, DockEdgeFromDockStyle, GetOppositeEdge, EdgeFromHitTest. The function IsPointNearEdge defines the proximitity of the current point to the docking edge. SendNCMessage, ForwardMouseMessage function posts the messages on mouse events to the top-level control.

Function CopyBitmapToClipboard returns a copy of the specified bitmap with certain transparency. Function IsInstanceOfType indicates if the object has a specified type. Function AdjustRectToWorkingArea allows to put the bounds of any control into the bounds of the screen that can be used by applications. In ControlBar.NET this function is used for location of  the popup menus on the area of the  screen. ReadColorValue function allows to get a string value of color from the XML node and translate it to the System.Drawing.Color and for translation a function  StringToColor is used. For reading variable of types System.Drawing.Size,   System.Drawing.Rectangle, System.Windows.Forms.Padding functions StringToSize, StringToRect, StringToPadding are used.          

Provides information about the current system fonts, brushes and  colors of a Window display element. Method UpdateSysColors allows to retrieve the current values of system colors  and brushes to the public variables of the GlobalData class.  Method UpdateFonts allows to retrieve the current values of system fonts to the public font variable. UpdateTextMetrics calculates the current height of the text.

Provides information about the current settings for the command bars and dockbars.
Static property UseLargeIcons indicates whether Large icons mode is set. Borders and margins for the AutoHide button are specified by the public variables AutoHideTextLeftMargin, AutoHideTextRightMargin, AutoHideBorderWidth, AutoHideVertMargin, AutoHideLeftMargin, AutoHideRightMargin, which used to define the size of the Autohide button. The size of menu buttons, toolbar buttons and images located on them are defined by  static variables MenuButtonSize, MenuImageSize, ToolbarButtonSize, ToolbarLargeButtonSize, ToolbarImageSize, ToolbarLargeImageSize. This value you can get by the functions GetMenuImageSize, GetMenuButtonSize, GetButtonSize, GetImageSize.

Represents different types of the images on the toolbars and captions, draws and makes them of different colors.

Implements interface IMessage from Windows.System.Forms namespace.
Has an ability to selectively handle incoming and outgoing messages while waiting for responses from synchronous calls, filter them.

Represents a set of static string variables which specify the types of the ControlBars objects.

Represents the method that will handle the CollectionChanged event raised when an item is added or removed from collection.

Represents the method that will handle the ItemPropertyChanged event raised when a property is changed on an item of the collection.

Retrieves the area of the command bar  at the specified screen coordinates.

Specifies the appearance of the button.

Indicates the docking position for a toolbar or docking pane.

Defines the image on the standard buttons. Used for drawing an image on the caption button, a tick on the checked button, arrows on the menu buttons and other.

The LayoutType enumeration is used to define a type of the layout of the control. 

Specifies the style of the border of MDI client area. The value of this type can be get and  set by the property BorderStyle of the MDIClientArea class. The default value is VisualStudio.

Defines the style of tabs on the tabstrip control.

Depends on the parent control of the toolbar button. The ToolbarbuttonMode we can get by the property ButtonMode of the toolbar.