Better Thumbnail Browser3.15
Publisher Description
Better Thumbnail Browser is a thumbnail viewing and loading control for .NET Windows Forms. View and automatically display thumbnails of images, graphic files, documents, video files etc.
* Compatible with: Visual Studio 2012, 2010, 2008, 2005.
* Compatible with .NET 4.5, .NET 4, .NET 3.5, .NET 3, .NET 2, and newer.
* Native look and feel, always uses the current system theme (including Aero support)
* Easy to use and well-documented.
* Written in pure managed C# code. Fast and light-weight.
* No dependencies.
* Easy royalty-free XCOPY deployment. Single DLL file that has just 250kB~ when compressed.
Viewing and loading image thumbnails is a sophisticated task, so this control is designed to do these things for you:
- Scan folder on disk and load images.
- Load images from any source you want (e.g. database) with minimum coding needed.
- Load thumbnails on background and perform all the thread operations and thread synchronization for you.
- Resize images with high-quality image resampling.
- Allows loading the thumbnails in view first, then all other thumbnails in the predefined order
- Supports starting, stopping and restarting the loading on demand.
- Smooth thumbnail zooming on the fly.
Better Thumbnail Browser is feature-packed and supports many advanced features that no other thumbnail control can offer (for example: Multi-column sorting, Multi-line text, Groups, Three-state check boxes and many more).
The biggest advantage of Better Thumbnail Browser is that saves you valuable development time. For many projects where GUI is important, Better Thumbnail Browser can very significantly reduce the development time, up to by about 50%, because the complex logic of loading, displaying and viewing the thumbnails is done automatically for you. Furthermore, you will save time thanks to many inbuilt features that work out of the box, such as sorting or item reordering.
Comes with many complete samples.
Source code licenses available.
About Better Thumbnail Browser
This Components & Libraries program is available in English. It was last updated on 08 March, 2026. Better Thumbnail Browser is compatible with the following operating systems: Windows.
The company that develops Better Thumbnail Browser is Component Owl. The latest version released by its developer is 3.15. This version was rated by 5 users of our site and has an average rating of 3.6.
The download we have available for Better Thumbnail Browser has a file size of 8.4 MB. Just click the green Download button above to start the downloading process. The program is listed on our website since 2015-05-27 and was downloaded 104 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded software with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Better Thumbnail Browser as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Better Thumbnail Browser on your Windows device:
- Click on the Download button on our website. This will start the download from the website of the developer.
- Once the Better Thumbnail Browser is downloaded click on it to start the setup process (assuming you are on a desktop computer).
- When the installation is finished you should be able to see and run the program.