Here's my post to roundup a bunch of .NET 2.0 UI Control Libraries:

Those guys over at DotNetMagic have been hard at work updating their signature component library. Definately one of the best libraries I've seen.

Then there are these new people over at Component Factory. They just released the first version of their new styled control library: The Krypton Toolkit. It is free for commercial use (download here), and it's got a bunch of spiffy-looking UI controls for Windows Forms applications. The Group and Header controls look pretty nice. Reminds me of NicePanel from PureComponents. (Which I hope gets updated to .NET 2.0 soon. Krypton is already .NET 2.0)

Infragistics is still keeping their .NET 2.0 controls in Beta. While ComponentOne just marked their projects as VS 2005 "Ready". (another way for saying "it should work, but we didn't do anything special.") Personally, I like the Infragistics folks more, but both vendors are monolithic. It's nice to see some smaller, more specialized UI controls coming out onto the market. I just hope that these little control vendors can keep up the innovative pace, and resist becoming the "do-everything" grid controls that Infragistics and ComponentOne have become.