IPLab
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
IPLab (Image Processing Lab) is image software apparently used in scientific applications, producing image files with a .ipl extension that are apparently raster images and can have multiple images in a file. This is one of the formats that is spottily documented online, with a few scattered references (and one can never be sure that they're even all to the same software; "Image Processing Lab" is a pretty generic name).
The format was developed by Scanalytics for use with advanced digital microscopes.
The software from AForce.NET called IPLab is definitely unrelated. It is written in C# and relies on the built in system classes for loading images.
