Watermarked Textbox for Compact Framework - compact-framework

Does anyone know if anyone makes a watermarked textbox control for the compact framework?
I already loked at the following and didn't see one.
Component One Mobile
Pocket PC Controls
Resco Mobile Forms Toolkit

Daniel Moth has a pretty good blog post about how to do this here:
TextBox with cue banner support for Windows Mobile
Best of all it is simple and free!

I've never seen one. This project shows how to do it yourself - not sure if it would work on CF, but I didn't see any obvious non-CF supported stuff in the example.

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Using metro ui css to build a profile page

has anyone built a profile using metro ui css, i need some inspiration for an online management system using metro and not able to come across much online. Thanks.
Not necessarily using the Metro UI CSS however these examples will hopefully provide inspiration that you could use to design your own.
Metro drew on clean typography and geometry - heavy use of the grid system and white-space. As Metro has matured it's moved on from the original designs, however Microsoft have continued to champion those original concepts - check out their guidelines for developing apps, and you might find exploring their products Windows Phone, Xbox One, and the Windows 10 redesign that got leaked - This one in-particular has quite a few ideas for profiles.
I first started reading about Metro from Long Zheng's blog - istartedsomething.com. And through him I discovered Mike Guss. Guss was one of the initial designers of the Metro language. He's recently updated his website and has some great Metro work on there:
http://mike-guss.com/#windows-phone
http://mike-guss.com/#xbox-one-1
Apparently there are quite a few "Metro" front-ends, inspiration found here: https://www.sitepoint.com/metro-bootstraps/
A couple examples here:
https://juliankay.com/development/the-metro-inspired-interface/
And more here:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=metro+inspired+user+interface

WinRT -TimePicker control

I am looking fora timepicker control for WinRT. I have looked at few nuget packages like callisto and winrtxaml but they dont seem to have it. Is there any package online which implements it ?
Something Like this-
I believe there is one coming with Windows 8.1. Otherwise (if you need it for 8.0) there are some component libraries that come with one - see a list here. If I were to choose to do more work over paying a few dollars to get one - I'd check if the Windows Phone Toolkit had one and port it to Windows 8.0.
Since you are on Visual Studio, I would highly recommend Synfusion's XAML Studio. You can check my Blog Post on DatePicker Control here, http://darkcore.in/getting-started-with-syncfusions-date-picker-control-for-winrt/
You can also visit their Official Site : www.syncfusion.com
Regards

Controls Based Security in a Windows Forms Application using VB.NET

I need to implement, Controls Based Security in a Windows Forms Application using VB.NET. I tried google but did not get anything much to work with.
I would like if someone, could suggest some books or tutorials.
Thanks
I'd recommend looking at Jesse Liberty's very detailed article: Controls Based Security in a Windows Forms Application, which includes full source and demonstrates one nice approach to this problem. While the article is in C#, the concepts should all translate to VB.NET exactly.

Metro styled Silverlight Applications

Is there any guidance available on developing Metro styled silverlight applications? How does one go about designing the UI to match the metro look and feel of WP7. Going by the way windows 8's UI & UX is, I assume the future of how we develop applications for the future versions of the win OS might be changing to look more or less 'metro'.
So what I am asking is, if anyone knows of any resource or has any ideas on how to use the currently available silverlight controls to achieve that look and feel. Is there anything planned to change the controls to match that UX out of the box and more natively?
As you know Metro is not tied to any technology. You can reference WP7 UI guidelines to get some hints; a new version of the guideline is available from Microsoft web site.
For Silverlight 4, you can download themes from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e9da0eb8-f31b-4490-85b8-92c2f807df9e
The Cosmopolitan theme when applied to a Silverlight4 application will give you Metro UI.
You can either apply the theme as-is or have a look in the xaml resource files to see how the theme is designed (brushes, fonts, styles etc)
For good UI (including Metro concepts and Blend) reference, I recommend visiting http://www.riagenic.com/
I hope this helps.
Have you missed this session?
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-790C
It shows step-by-step how a WP7 (~Silverlight) application can be be turned into a Metro-style application. Although it doesn't go into design principles.
Edit: haha, missed to see that this question was asked months ago, sorry.
Infragistics have published a free metro theme for Silverlight.

Any good free skinable vb.net tab controls?

I've been googling and googling for vb.net examples with nice looking tabs.
I really really like this example (slide #4):
http://www.dotnetmagic.com/features_tabbedMDI.html
Has anyone come across any similar free vb.net tab controls with examples? I don't really need the control to be open source, just free :)
DevExpress is probably the best free controls library. And you can find a great TabControl in it. You will have to add it manually to the toolbox.
You have to register for a free license to download it. The download page is still online and working as of 2012-03-22, but cannot be reached by navigation on their website any more:
Free DevExpress Controls download
(In an email response they stated this was because they significantly changed their website.
Also, they said these controls can be used royalty-free even in commercial applications, and without having to include any copyright notices.)
Its name is XtraTabControl
Namespace: DevExpress.XtraTab
Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditor.vXX.X (where XX.X is the version of the XtraEditor, mine is 11.1)
Although you could google the answer, there's some links to get you started:
The Code Project, check under desktop development.
Telerik is a known control developer, offers some controls for free.
Component Factory is another good option.
As of Developer Express v2011 vol 2 (at least, probably earlier), the Tab Control is not free. Used to, you could put it on a form and run without a nag screen. Not the case now.
This is the best free one I could find:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tabs/KRBTabControl.aspx