VIBlend announced the availability of the VIBlend Controls for WinForms ver. 6.0.0. the next generation of user interface controls for Windows Forms.

Key benefits of the new release are: - 2 new themes for all VIBlend WinForms Controls - Pivot Design panel - DataGrid Localization Provider - Improved Ribbon Bar performance and rendering - Quick Start projects now have a full support for VS 2010 which will decrease development time

This free component from VisualHint (localizable, nullable, not limited to 1753-9998, today and clear buttons, ...) can now be painted with the beautiful Krypton toolkit palettes (built-in and custom).

A new custom MonthCalendar has been added to the VisualHint's products and it is also free when used standalone.

Smart FieldPackEditor.Net adds a new "Frames per second" field for datetime and timespan types in their respective editors.

This post from VisualHint shows how Smart FieldPackEditor can be used to show two editable and independant values in a single DateTimePicker.

This video shows how Smart FieldPackEditor.Net can completely replace the DateTimePicker and how it can provide the perfect experience to bind itself to nullable date and time columns.

How the FieldPackEditor component, usually serving as a DateTimePicker replacement, can also be used to build rich rule-based field editors.

The first screencast of a series of four to showcase what the new DateTimePicker replacement can do.

The second screencast of a series of four to showcase how it's possible to clear the content of a DateTimePicker and restore a valid datetime value.

Looks for comments from the community for the best way to set a null value in their DateTimePicker component.