[Question]: What's the difference between the Toolkit and the Extended Toolkit?

[lynnewu]

What's the difference between the Standard Toolkit and the Extended Toolkit?

[Smurf-IV]

The Idea of the standard toolkit, is to give the "Standard" winform controls theming, with a few extras to help with the controls data.
It also has ribbons / Docking / navigation components that came form the initial implementation before they became the norm in Winforms.

Extended, then takes those controls and adds new features / new controls / new anything that gives the developer more control over data / interactions / display, e.g. the "ProgressBar with text" is one of the recent additions into Extended

[lynnewu]

Thanks!

Do I need to reference "Standard" if I'm using "Extended", then?

[mikel3361]

Extended NuGet Packages refernces Standard Packages when needed and install it. I'm only install Extended and the standard toolkit is also referenced.

[Smurf-IV]

That's because the Extended Items "Derive from and / or Extend" the Toolkit, and also need all the palette and theming that krypton does in the standard toolkit.