The task of creating exceptionally attractive web designs is not easy and due to increased competition from ever mushrooming websites on the web space, it is extremely important that the website should be visually attractive simultaneously maintaining the quality and integrity of the content. .NET is a famous platform for web designing and it uses Windows forms as the GAPI (Graphical Application Programming Interface) which can be infinitely used to impart the site, vivacious and animated visuals and objects. ActiveFinish Express Edition v.1.0.0.0 is a component that facilitates the designer to crate surface of .NET Winforms control easily without ever closing Visual Studio IDE.

ActiveFinish Express Edition lets you perform operations like positioning, stretching or rotating individual elements one by one or altogether as a layer. Apart from setting the layout, the program also facilitates visual effects like adjustment of hue, opacity, emboss, balance of colors, or integrating a drop shadow to the objects in the control. With this program, you can use VB.Net or C# to give amazing animation effects to the objects by adjusting the properties of the effects or elements during the run time. The program gives you full flexibility to add or remove a number of objects like text, image, shape, video or complex to a .NET winforms control simultaneously during the designing process or run time. It features an intuitive editor for application graphics in which you can do all the necessary adjustments with the mouse and can move back and forth among the actions by using accurate undo and redo features. The framework for the functioning of program is extensible with all the effects and elements being in the form of plug-ins which are 19 and 14 in number respectively by default.

Overall, ActiveFinish Express Edition v.1.0.0.0 receives a score of four points on the scale of five for its ease of use and its class leading features.