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Xceed DataGrid for WPF v4.3 released

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:09:08 GMT

Group and sort data using Xceed DataGrid for WPF.

Xceed DataGrid for WPF is a grid control that allows you to present and edit data in 3D layouts. Features include rich in-place editing, grouping with UI virtualization, card and table views and built-in data validation. It offers compatibility with bound and unbound data sources, a flexible object model and is fully extensible with reusable parts. Xceed DataGrid for WPF includes Xceed 3D Views for WPF and Xceed Editors for WPF. With Xceed DataGrid for WPF full, C# and XAML source code is available in the Blueprint Edition.

Updates in v4.3

Improved performance during horizontal scrolling with a large number of columns
Improved responsiveness and efficiency in auto-filtering when there are changes in the data source
Initial loading and vertical scrolling have been improved
Scrolling performance improved while dragging a column over the edges of the datagrid
Developers now have access to several command-related methods

About Xceed Software

Since its launch in 1994, Xceed Software has been devoted to creating components for Microsoft platforms. The company's first product, Xceed Zip Compression Library, was first offered as a VBX for Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0. Today Xceed's product line can be grouped into two main categories, Data Manipulation and User Interface. The Data Manipulation components include Compression, Encryption and File Transfer libraries. The User Interface components include Grid, Chart, Menus, Toolbars, Treeviews, Explorer Panes and other interface controls.

ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms 2011 v3 updated

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:14:25 GMT

Outlook style grouping in FlexGrid for WinForms.

ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms is an easy-to-use, flexible grid control for creating user-friendly interfaces. Providing Microsoft Excel-like behavior, it allows you to display, edit, format, organize, summarize, and print tabular data. Built-in visual styles mimic the look and feel of Office 2007 including the Blue, Silver, and Black themes. FlexGrid for WinForms contains two controls; C1FlexGrid is a powerful, full-featured grid control that provides all the basics plus advanced features such as outline trees, cell merging and filtering. C1FlexGridClassic derives from C1FlexGrid and provides an object model that is virtually 100% identical to the VSFlexGrid ActiveX control, allowing easy migration to .NET.

ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms is also included in the following products:

Updates in 2011 v3

Added GetLocalizedString event to enable filter UI localization.
Added Persian (Farsi) localization.

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has received numerous industry and user accolades including awards from SDTimes, The Code Project, TechWeb, Software Development Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, Society for Technical Communication and SQL Server Magazine.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

Syncfusion Essential Grid adds stacked headers

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:28:08 GMT

Grid samples created using Syncfusion Essential Grid.

Version 2011 Vol 4 also adds auto-wrap in column cells and improves visual styles.

Syncfusion Essential Grid offers Microsoft Excel-like grid functionality and high-performance grouping support for both flat and hierarchical data sources. Syncfusion Essential Grid allows extremely detailed customization down to the cell level. Multilevel undo/redo, shared scrollbar support, data/view separation, floating cells, multiple cell types, and extensibility are features that are included. Syncfusion Essential Grid includes Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC controls.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011

Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC

Stacked Headers - Stacked headers allow users to have additional header rows that span across multiple grid columns. Users can group columns under such headers. This feature helps better organize grid data as users will be able to clearly see which dimensions of data relate to the same topic. Related columns in the same grid can be grouped under a single heading so that data in those columns will be seen as part of a whole.
Auto-Wrap in Column Cells - When the content in a cell exceeds the width of the column it is in, this feature automatically wraps the text in the cell. This way, you will not need to double-click on a cell to see the entirety its content. You can resize the width of columns according to your needs; however, grids have a minimum specification for the width of columns. Depending on the properties that are enabled, you will either not be able to resize the column beyond that minimum width, or the content in the cell will be clipped.

Essential Grid for Windows Forms

Visual Styles - This feature enables you to apply visual styles to a grid and its associated controls. You can apply visual styles to the grid, grid scrollbar, and cell-embedded controls like push buttons. It is not mandatory to specify the theme for every control individually.

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation -- the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight. Syncfusion uncompromisingly strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to our customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

Spread.NET Professional 6 launched

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:41:00 GMT

MultiRow example using Spread.NET Professional.

All the features of Spread.NET plus MultiRow, Standalone Chart, Formula Provider and Spread Designer Tool for end users.

Spread.NET Professional provides advanced spreadsheet functionality which lets you create highly-specialized applications such as Financial Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Scientific and Engineering Models, Sales Analysis, Budgeting, native Microsoft Excel IO and many other business functions. It also allows you to quickly add data visualization, calculations, and easier layout options to your applications. Spread.NET Professional includes all the features found in Spread.NET plus: stand-alone charting, a formula provider, a MultiRow component for logically presenting data and a Spread Designer tool which lets your users edit or create spreadsheets.

The following editions of Spread.NET are available:

Features

Spread.NET Professional has all the features of Spread.NET such as native Microsoft Excel support, data handling, data acquisition, dashboard visualization, integrated chart controls, print and pdf support plus the following additional components:

MultiRow (GcMultiRow)

Design Your Own Tabular Screen - MultiRow offers a unique design model that is much more flexible than conventional grids and Excel sheets, where cells are confined to rows and columns. Using the MultiRow component, you can place cells in the header section or in repeating rows as easily as drawing controls on a Windows Form. It arms you with extensive power, allowing you to play around with the layout, specify any cell position or size--even overlap the cells.
Develop Your Tabular Form Input Screen Quickly - Embed any image in the MultiRow designer to use it as an underlay for your grid. You can even use an image of the actual printed form or application screen as the background image to easily copy the design onto your grid. The rich assortment of style features, from rounded borders to varied background patterns, help you to replicate your form design onto the screen.
Minimize the Learning Cost - Since MultiRow designer runs in Visual Studio, you can design tabular screens in the same way that you design forms. Find MultiRow in the Visual Studio Toolbox and control its settings in the Properties window like any other control. You can also program MultiRow in the same way that you would any standard .NET Framework control, since it implements interfaces that are compatible with standard controls for cell editing and events.
Employ it for Team Development and Large Scale Projects - You can maintain templates created in the designer as Visual Basic or C# source code, and easily manage and share templates for debugging and team development, just as you do with Windows Forms source code. You can create a user-defined cell by inheriting a built-in cell, and then reuse it in various projects. This provides flexibility and consistency, and makes long term maintenance a snap.
Easily Deploy Your Application - When you deploy an application created using MultiRow, there is no need for any special agreement or additional fees. You just include a few megabytes of redistributable runtime files. In addition, a bootstrapper is provided to make the deployment process simpler.

Stand-alone Chart (FpChart)
This standalone chart control for Windows Forms and ASP.NET allows you to create charts without a spreadsheet or any of its dependent assemblies, or move your charts outside your spreadsheet.

Formula Provider
Leverage the power of the Spread Calculation Engine to perform calculations using controls in your application - outside of Spread. Access Spreads built-in functions and Custom Function capabilities to create specialized and complex formula evaluations

Spread Designer Run-time license (FpSpreadDesigner)
Show the Spread Designer tool from your applications and let your users edit or create spreadsheets at runtime.

Upgrade to Spread.NET Professional
If you are a registered user of an earlier version of Spread, you can upgrade to this new Professional Edition. Upgrades are available for customers who have Spread.NET 6 or Spread .NET 5, Spread for Windows Forms or Spread for ASP.NET (Web Forms), Spread for .NET Bundle, or earlier COM/ActiveX versions of Spread. Upgrades are available with or without maintenance, the Maintenance plan includes all major upgrades, updates and phone support for one year.

About GrapeCity

GrapeCity has been in the software business for over 25 years. Its corporate headquarters are located in Sendai, Japan, with US headquarters in Kirkland, WA and operations spanning throughout the United States and Asia. GrapeCity is also the world's largest component vendor. Its award-winning tools benefit the leading corporations, software companies and independent consultants around the world as a cost-effective solution for building distributed enterprise-wide applications for commercial or in-house use. Along with Data Dynamics and FarPoint Technologies, both now part of GrapeCity, the company's products and those of its Tools Partners have over 500,000 users.

Dapfor .Net Grid adds Microsoft theme support

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:10:48 GMT

Real-time updates in Dapfor .Net Grid.

Version 2.6 also improves performance while receiving updates from an IBindingList.

Dapfor .Net Grid is a hierarchical data presentation grid that features: single or multiple headers, real-time row grouping, sorting, filtration, cell highlighting, rich custom cell editors and standard editors. Dapfor .Net Grid combines high performance (50,000 cell updates/second), thread-safe implementation, no deadlock risks, XML and binary serialization, data binding and more. Dapfor .Net Grid includes standard editors based on UITypeEditor class, advanced cell editors (created over cells - TrackBar, CheckBar, etc.) and row docking features.

Updates in V2.6

Added a threadsafe implementation of IBindingList - Dapfor.Net.Data.ThreadSafeBindingList. It protects internal data and fires IBindingList.ListChanged notifications without acquiring a synchronization object to prevent from the deadlock.
Performance improvements while receiving updates from IBindingList.
Added an optimization, when an IBindingList is connected to a grid you could notify subscribers via the IBindingList.ListChanged event if a user editing data in grid cell had left the data unchanged.
Support for various themes including XP/Vista/Windows 7.
Added feature of saving and restoring grid layout to an XML file in design mode.
Column.Sortable behavior has been changed. This property no longer blocks column programmatic sorting, however it prevents users from sorting columns by clicking a header.
Behavior of Grid.Highlighting.Enabled property has been changed. Now, if this property is set to false, it doesn't prevent cell highlighting with Cell.Highlight() method. However, it blocks automated highlighting upon notification via INotifyPropertyChanged interface.
Support for deleting content upon pressing DEL key has been added. This feature can be enabled with Grid.Navigation.RemoveSelectionOnDelete property.
Added new examples of theme use and display of summaries in columns or docked rows on various hierarchical levels.
Editor background color is now consistent with background color of the edited cell.
Added support for composite objects in .Net Inspector

About Dapfor

Since 2007 Dapfor has developed high-quality software for modern applications that require high performance and reliability. One of the main components of such applications is a grid, i.e. a component that displays data in tabular form. Dapfor .Net Grid was initially designed for electronic trading systems with their stringent requirements to robustness, low consumption of memory and CPU resources, ergonomic and simple user interface and rich API. These requirements have a common objective - to gain the first place on the market, to improve development time and to ensure productive work in run-time. As the result, Dapfor has created the a productive and robust hierarchical grid. It can be used in a great variety of applications (not just for financial markets). It makes software user-friendly, reduces CPU and memory consumption and considerably accelerates development time with multiple services included in the grid and RAD (rapid application development) patterns.

PFGrid Toolkit WinForms .NET improves Metro UI

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:06:28 GMT

Mails demo in PFGrid .NET.

Version 1.1.6.17 adds a Metro UI style available for Grid, Window and Tile controls.

PFGrid Toolkit WinForms .NET is a flexible .NET TreeList and Grid component for your WinForms applications. PFGrid for .NET can be used both a normal Grid with flat rows and as TreeList control. Each TreeListRow has a Children-collection which can be filled dynamically or statically. The columns of the grid can be grouped in an Outlook-style by dragging the column to the groupbox and can also be sorted and moved by user-interaction or by using the API. PFGrid for .NET also offers a Drag and Drop mechanism for rows and cells. Cell editors can be defined easily by implementing the interface ITreeListCellEditor. PFGrid for .NET also includes another 3 controls: NavigationBarEx (an outlook-like navigation control with custom rendering), SplitterEx (an expandable splitter control) and Rounded Panel (a WinForms Panel with rounder corners).

Updates in 1.1.6.17

Metro UI Closing and layout persistence - Each Metro-tile can be closed and restored now. When a tile is closed it is placed to the TileSlide-control on the right side.
Metro UI Auto arrange tiles for WinForms - The Metro tiles are auto arranged if the user moves a tile and tiles intersect.
Transparent WinForms Grid - For the WinForms PFGrid.NET an alpha-value for the background can be defined. With this feature it is possible to design a user-interface with the style of Windows 8 Metro
Metro UI HTML-Tile - The control HtmlTile has been added to render HTML-images and css in Metro UI Tiles.
Metro style for Winforms ButtonText and ComboBox - The ButtonText- and DropDown-control come with Metro UI style now which can be assigned by the RenderType-property
Metro UI controls Winforms - The Metro-UI style is available or the Grid, Window, Tiles and other Winforms controls of PFGrid-Toolkit.NET.
Volume Slider renderer - Volume-slider control/renderer added like in the sound-settings of MS-Windows. Also tooltips can be displayed for Sliders.
PFSplitter.NET - The PFSplitter-control is a collapsible splitter. This means that it has the ability to collapse or expand a docked control with a single mouse-click.
PFRating.NET - The PFRating.NET-control let's you define a number of stars for the rating, a style for the stars (Small-stars or big stars) and custom images
PFCheckBox.NET - The PFCheckBox.NET is a custom Checkbox-control with XP-, Vista- and Office-styles that can be switched easily by a property. The text can be aligned at the left, right, top or bottom of the control.
Battery-meter for PFProgressBar.NET - With the special ProgressBarRendererBattery you can change the appearance of the ProgressBar to a battery-meter.
PFProgressBar.NET - The PFProgressBar.NET is a control to show a state or progress. The orientation can be horizontal or vertical, the rendering is customizable by ProgressBar-renderers.
PFSlider.NET - This control allows the user to select a value in a certain range, the orientation of the control can be horizontal or vertical, each rendered part can be customized.
PFWindow.NET - The PFWindow.NET is a Form with the appearance of an Office-2007 window: Rounded corners, thin borders, caption with gradients and nice Office-like buttons
PFDropDown.NET - This control is a ComboBox for which you can use a custom Popup-control as selection-list. The DropDown-list uses the PFGrid as default-control
PFButtonTextBox.NET - A textinput-control with dynamic buttons you can use for example as editor-shortcuts
PFReflectionImage.NET - This control is real eye-candy: Display an image with reflection and use it as button.
PFScrollBar.NET - The ScrollBar-controls are derived from the .NET-Framework-class VScrollBar and HScrollBar so they can be used for scrolling other controls like Panels or Images.
PFHtmlPanel.NET - This control can be used as Html-container. No embedded browser is needed, it's 100% managed code that renders HTML for WinForms.
PFPanel.NET - You can use the PFPanel.NET as gradient panel with rounded corners and as groupBox with different color-syles.
PFButton.NET - Cool Vista- and Office-like Buttons and Split-Buttons with predefined or custom colors. Use the Office2007- and Office2010-renderers or define your own.
Hyperlink-cells PFGrid.NET - You can add Hyperlinks with default-display (link) very easily. Just add a column of type HyperlinkColumn and cells of type HyperlinkCell.
Summary-row PFGrid.NET - With PFGrid.NET you can display a summary-row at the bottom of the page. With this feature you can easily show SUM, MAX, MIN, AVG or custom summarized values.
Typeahead Text-Find PFGrid.NET - The global typeahead text-filter for PFGrid.NET can be assigned by using the control GlobalTextFilter on your Winform. While you are typing text in the Filter-textbox the filtering is applied in the corresponding grid.
Column-filters PFGrid.NET - Filters can be defined easily to filter the values for cells of a column. A default-filter of type TextFilterControl can be assigned for a column, if you like to define a custom filter you can implement the interface IFilterControl for a user-defined .NET control.
Enhanced Design-time support - Sorting for columns, the column-order and the width for each column can be defined during design-time in Visual Studio with mouse-interaction
Ajax-like loading panel - PFGrid.NET for Winforms offers an Ajax-like loading panel for long running tasks

About PFGrid

PFGrid is a team of software-engineering-experts developing controls and components for .NET Winforms, .NET WPF, JAVA, C++ and COM. The design-principles for its controls lead to performance, flexibility and light-weight. PFGrid aims to develop software-components to fit your requirements.

Dapfor .Net Grid V2.5.2 released

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:51:11 GMT

Real-time updates in Dapfor .Net Grid.

New ICustomSort interface adds custom data sorting.

Dapfor .NET Grid is also available as part of Dapfor .Net Suite.

Updates in V2.5.2

Added ICustomSort interface enabling you to customize row sorting in .Net Grid
Enabled Control.DragEnter and Control.DragDrop events
Added X, Y and KeyState properties to the DragContentEventArgs class
Changed public visibility of the ColumnConfiguratorForm class
Added Grid.EndEdit() method to stop cell editing before closing a modal window
.Net Grid doesn't throw MDA (managed debugging assistant) exceptions any more

About Dapfor

Elegant Grid updated

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:15:00 GMT

Sample applications built using Elegant Grid.

Elegant Grid is a set of feature-rich and extensible .NET components designed to help developers easily create the presentation layer of table and hierarchical data for professional Windows Forms applications. All components are written in 100% managed C# and are CLS compliant. The grid architecture is designed to be conceptually compatible with all the Windows Forms elements including DataGridView. This allows you to use your existing skills and knowledge when developing with the Elegant Grid.

Updates in v4.2

Provided compatibility with the latest version of common controls shared with Elegant Ribbon.
Localized More colors text to different languages.
ColorCell did not apply the selected color from the More colors dialog.
Setting BoundsGridControl.DataSource to null caused a NullReferenceException.

About FOSS Software

FOSS Software, Inc. is a software development and consulting company. The company's mission is the optimization of the development process, adaptation and software product maintenance. They are committed to lowering the risk of developing unclaimed software and out-of-date technologies and keeping track of up-to-date technologies and supporting companies in upgrading their software in the most efficient way. FOSS Software, Inc., incorporated in November of 2000, was formed by a group of highly qualified programmers and program managers with extensive experience in the high technology field.

Spread.NET adds Sparklines and Camera Shapes

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:40:00 GMT

Showing spreadsheet data using Spread.NET.

Version 6 lets you add column, line and win/loss Sparklines Markers to highlight specific values in your spreadsheets.

Spread.NET is an embedded Microsoft Excel spreadsheet platform for .NET development. Spread.NET is the combination of Spread for Windows Forms and Spread for ASP.NET provided as a single, multi-platform toolkit. Whether developing client applications, Web sites, or Web applications, the mission of Spread.NET is to allow developers to embed complete spreadsheet functionality into applications - without requiring Microsoft Excel. Through built-in support for Excel document import and export, Spread.NET allows you to apply complete programmatic control of user interactions with data in Excel documents - allowing you to maintain business rules, security, and data integrity.

Updates in 6

Windows Forms

Add sparkle to your sheets with Sparklines

New Column, Line, and Win/Loss Sparklines
Sparkline Markers to highlight specific values
Sparkline groups to share appearance and style settings
Built-in UI support for clipboard cut/copy/paste
New easy-to-use sparkline APIs
Allow your end-users to create or change sparklines using built-in dialogs
Import/export Sparklines in Microsoft Excel 2010
Extensible Sparkline model for creating custom Sparklines

Create advanced spreadsheet dashboards with new Camera Shapes

A Camera Shape is a snapshot of a range of cells in a sheet that can be placed anywhere inside a sheet.
Using camera shapes together with charts and sparklines, you can create advanced reports showing exactly the information you want, how you want it, without any spanning or merging of cells.
Built-in UI support for clipboard cut/copy/paste
New easy-to-use camera shape APIs
Allow your end-users to create or change camera shapes using built-in dialogs
Import/export camera shapes in Microsoft Excel 2003/2007/2010

Improved Excel import/export performance

Enhancements have improved the performance by up to 50%

New Spread Designer capabilities to design powerful user interfaces

New Sparkline Tools for creating and editing sparklines
New camera tool for creating camera shapes and advanced spreadsheet dashboards

ASP.NET

New browser client side support

New standards support for Internet Explorer 9.
Enhanced client scripting to support Firefox 4.

About GrapeCity

Essential Grid improves PDF and Word exporting

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:40:59 GMT

Card View and Filtering Performance demos in Syncfusion Essential Grid.

Version 2011 Vol 3 also lets users edit a large amount of data simultaneously and save it to the server instantly.

Updates in 2011 Vol 3

Filter Bar - The filter bar is displayed at the top of a grid, below the header row. This is very user friendly compared to the existing filtering feature. The filter bar can even be used in applications at run time.
PDF and Word Exporting - This feature allows users to export grouped and nested tables, grids with multi-row records, summary rows, grid headers and footers, and applied grid styles. Users can choose what grid content to export—visible, all, or custom.
Bulk and Excel-like Editing - Users can edit a large amount of data simultaneously and save it to the server instantly, instead of waiting for the server to save the edited data before being able to make another edit.

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering business innovation - the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Syncfusion's award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to grow with you, whether you're using Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight.

C1 True DBGrid for WinForms improves filtering

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:38:49 GMT

Grouping data using ComponentOne True DBGrid for WinForms.

ComponentOne True DBGrid for WinForms 2011 v2 now supports conditional filtering as an alternative to the filterbar.

ComponentOne True DBGrid for WinForms offers outstanding features and flexibility to browse, edit, add, delete and manipulate tabular data using ADO.NET. Features include: multiple display modes, horizontal and vertical splits with independent or synchronized scrolling, fully customizable grid appearance (fonts, colors, pictures, and format), enhanced keyboard navigation, robust print options, and more.

Updates in 2011 v2

Supports conditional filtering as an alternative to the filterbar. With conditional filtering a drop-down appears when the user hovers over any column header with conditional filtering enabled
The built-in filters include a value filter (checkboxes) as well as conditions such as "greater than" or "contains"

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has provided a wide range of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE platform development tools and applications for over 22 years. This includes ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, which represents a broad and complete set of tools and solutions for Microsoft Windows, Web and Mobile application developers. ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry and is a premier partner of Microsoft. It also offers ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts, custom Web Parts that enable you to deliver rich, compelling SharePoint sites without writing a line of code; ComponentOne Doc-To-Help, a long-recognized product for technical communicators who write and develop Help systems; and ComponentOne DemoWorks, a screen recording tool to produce WMV, Flash, GIF, AVI, EXE and Java files.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

VIBlend Data Grid for Windows Forms V6.0 released

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:21:09 GMT

Spreadsheet examples in VIBlend GridView for Windows Forms.

New version adds data binding using Indexed properties, checkbox filtering and case sensitive filtering comparison.

VIBlend Data Grid for Windows Forms is easy to integrate and use regardless of whether you want to add functionality to an existing Windows Forms application or planning to start your next great project. The DataGrid is ideal for building data-driven applications. It supports advanced data bindings to multiple data source types. You can visualize a database table, bind to a generic collection or populate the grid's content through APIs without using any data binding. You can also create Pivot Tables with multi-level hierarchies on rows and columns, and multiple value (fact) fields.

Updates in V6.0

Added data binding using Indexed properties to DataGridView.
Added checkbox filtering to DataGridView.
Added new case sensitive filtering comparison operators to DataGridView.
Added support for Totals and Sub Totals to DataGridView.
Added currency, percentage, fixed-point and number editors to DataGridView.
Added DataGridView navigation with Home, End, PageUp, PageDown keys.
Added ability to set a custom theme to the DataGridView CheckBoxEditor.
Added ThreeState mode to DataGridView CheckBoxEditor
Improved DataGridView Localization

About VIBlend

VIBlend is a privately held software company specialized in building advanced User Interface components for Windows platform. We create every component with passion and dedication to high quality to deliver exceptional end-user experience. Our components provide rich functionality, easy to use APIs and unparalleled performance. We are proud to build components that help businesses and developers around the world deliver better applications in less time and with lower budget.

Dapfor .Net Grid adds data validation

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:03:14 GMT

Real-time updates in Dapfor .Net Grid.

Version 2.5.0 also improves data binding, adds drag and drop features and supports lasso selections.

Updates in V2.5.0

Data editing

.Net Grid now supports data validation, where the programmer may specify whether a user value is valid and pick one of the possible actions - cancel editing results, apply new value, ask user to enter a new value, display an error icon or switch to editing a new cell.
Navigation between editors by pressing Enter, Tab, Shift+Tab has been added.

Data binding

Grid interaction with data sources has been completely refactored. As the result, the grid can now work in thread-safe mode with different data sources including IList, IBindingList, IListSource and with BindingSource and CurrencyManager.
Ability to bind any row to data sources via Row.DataSource property has been added.
It is now possible to bind .Net Grid to multiple data sources simultaneously via IListSource interface (e.g. to multiple IBindingList at the same time).
Data binding can now be combined with Grid.Rows.Add() / Row.Add() methods.
Ability to build a hierarchy when data objects in one or several properties return collections of other objects has been added.
It is now possible to create a hierarchy with multiple IBindingList containing objects of different types.
It is now possible to subscribe to IBindingList events and to objects in IBindingList collections if they implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Their thread-safe processing, sorting, filtering, grouping and painting are maintained.
Conditional binding feature has been added. With this feature the grid asks how the data should be added. For example, if a data object contains a collection of other objects, the programmer can add its collection instead of the object itself, thus missing a whole hierarchy level while hierarchical binding.

Drag & drop

A feature of dragging data within a grid and between grids has been added.
It is now possible to move data on the same hierarchy level and to perform hierarchical dragging of rows while preserving state and hierarchy of dragged objects.
Full customization of drag & drop process supporting choice of content and various effects, place of insertion and hierarchy is now available.
Features for dragging and dropping data to external applications (Excel, Word.) and importing data from external applications providing an interface to deserialize data and insertion methods have been added.
Intuitive automated scrolling where needed during data dragging has been added.

Lasso selection

The grid now supports a new method of user-friendly data selection. When the user moves the mouse with left button pressed, the grid displays a semi-transparent area, and all rows within this area become selected. Various effects are supported when Ctrl or Shift keys are pressed

About Dapfor

XtraGrid .NET Suite adds multiple column summaries

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:53:00 GMT

Filtering and sorting using XtraGrid .NET Suite.

Version 2011 vol 1 also adds incremental search support in column filter dropdowns.

XtraGrid .NET Suite is a 100% C# Grid, CardView, and Editors Library built specifically for .NET. XtraGrid is optimized to take full advantage of the .NET Framework and all .NET Languages, offering everything from standard two-dimensional grids, to runtime grouping and column customization; from master/detail support, to Card Views; from 15 feature rich data editors to advanced alpha blending and custom draw. With the XtraGrid Suite, you also get full access to the C# source code.

Updates in v2011 vol 1

Multiple Column Summaries - You can now calculate multiple summaries for a single column and display them simultaneously within the grid's footer.
Export/Printing Performance and Memory Usage Boost - With this release, DevExpress have significantly improved print and export performance and memory usage. These optimizations affect all DevExpress Grid and Pivot Grid controls (XtraGrid, XtraPivotGrid, ASPxGridView, etc). You will see improvements of 80 to 99% when compared to previous versions.
Expressions for Unbound Columns in Server Mode - With this release, unbound grid columns can be populated in server mode with data obtained from expressions. You can specify a formula referencing other columns and using many built-in functions and operators. The resulting data for these columns will be calculated on the server side.
Group Intervals for DateTime Columns in Server Mode - Added support for group intervals for date-time columns in server mode. You can now change group intervals using a single property setting in server mode.
New Scroll Mode - Fix Group Rows - Implemented a new scroll mode for the XtraGrid - perfect when viewing large amounts of grouped data. When using this new scroll mode, the top row for the visible group will always be displayed as you scroll through grouped data. Additionally, an icon is displayed in the top group row to indicate that the grouped data is only partially displayed.
Incremental Search Support in Column Filter Dropdowns - Whether you choose to use regular or checked filter dropdowns for individual columns, you can now use the incremental search feature to locate values in dropdown lists. Simply enter the required value in order to locate it in the list. When typing, the text is highlighted in the list making it easy to locate.

About DevExpress (Developer Express)

Developer Express is a software development company based in the United States. It produces coding assistance tools and components for Delphi, C++ Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio developers. The major part of its product line is VCL, .NET WinForms and ASP.NET components that replicate the UI of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications. Developer Express has won many industry awards for its products

PFGrid .NET 1.1.0.3 released

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Mails demo in PFGrid .NET.

New auto filtering, allows you to apply a filter to the corresponding grid as the user types in the filter textbox.

PFGrid .NET is a flexible .NET TreeList and Grid component for your WinForms applications. PFGrid for .NET can be used both a normal Grid with flat rows and as TreeList control. Each TreeListRow has a Children-collection which can be filled dynamically or statically. The columns of the grid can be grouped in an Outlook-style by dragging the column to the groupbox and can also be sorted and moved by user-interaction or by using the API. PFGrid for .NET also offers a Drag and Drop mechanism for rows and cells. Cell editors can be defined easily by implementing the interface ITreeListCellEditor. PFGrid for .NET also includes another 3 controls: NavigationBarEx (an outlook-like navigation control with custom rendering), SplitterEx (an expandable splitter control) and Rounded Panel (a WinForms Panel with rounder corners).

Updates in 1.1.0.3

Typeahead Text-Find PFGrid.NET - The global typeahead text-filter for PFGrid.NET can be assigned by using the control GlobalTextFilter on your Winform. While you are typing text in the Filter-textbox the filtering is applied in the corresponding grid.

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Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC 2011 Vol 2 updated

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Card View in Syncfusion Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC.

Adds Web service & dynamic data binding, hierarchical grid, improved page navigation and customizable data presentation.

Syncfusion Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC is a light-weight, AJAX-enabled, high-performance grid component built especially to suit the programming model of the ASP.NET MVC framework. It has a rich feature set that includes grouping, sorting, paging, data-binding, editing, filtering and several built-in styles. Syncfusion Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC was designed for performance and can easily handle millions of records. AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic - only the required data is sent between the client and server, minimizing data transfer and response time.

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

Hierarchical Grid - Records involved in hierarchical relationships can be synchronized to update changes in all records whenever changes are made to one. Parent records are expandable and collapsible, and all records with nested relations can be expanded by clicking the plus-minus buttons to reveal underlying details
Web Service Data Binding - Web service data binding - with rich, declarative binding - is one of the important features found in ASP.NET MVC. By this, data can be bound from a Web service to a grid, providing the grid with rich capabilities over data - such as sorting, paging, filtering, updating, deleting, and inserting - which data-bound UI controls can use automatically. The main advantages of a Web service are platform independence and reusability
Pager Improvements - Page navigation can be done through a slider, by manually specifying the page number, by using navigation buttons, or by selecting a specified page number. Also, page size can be customized dynamically by using the advanced pager
Column Templates - Column templates give your end-users the ability to customize how data is presented in a grid. Modifying the template is simple enough that end-users can be given direct control
Dynamic Data Binding - With dynamic data binding, no parameters have to be defined in a grid. If you do not know the type that needs to be defined, then implementing a dynamic data grid can be useful because doing so allows a grid to dynamically render columns in accordance with the data source

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Syncfusion launch HTML 5 based diagramming package

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Dashboards and Pivot Tables in Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Essential Studio Enterprise 2011 Vol 2 adds an HTML 5 based diagram package and RDL compatible reporting engine.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition includes Syncfusion Essential Tools, Essential Grid, Essential Grouping, Essential XlsIO, Essential Diagram, Essential Chart, and Essential Edit. Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise incorporates a unique debugging support system that allows switching between Debug and Release versions of the library with a single click from inside the Visual Studio.NET IDE. Dynamic and feature-rich, Syncfusion Essential Studio has everything developers need to create enterprise-class applications.

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

HTML 5-based Diagramming Package - Allows developers to create web-based business applications complete with Visio-like diagramming using the HTML 5-based diagramming engine
Report Definition Language (RDL) compatible Silverlight/WPF Reporting Engine - Enables developers to create standards-based RDL reports without being locked into a vendor specific reporting format
Business Intelligence Support for Additional Data Warehousing Servers - Build business intelligence applications that can talk to any XMLA compliant server
Load and display Excel files - WPF and Silverlight grid now supports loading and displaying Excel files
Easily present geographic data - New Essential Maps for WPF and Silverlight allows for representing geographic information in your dashboards

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Syncfusion Essential Studio UI 2011 Vol 2 released

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Diagrams, charts, gauges and grids in Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition.

Essential Studio User Interface Edition adds new controls and enhancements for ASP.NET/MVC, WinForms, WPF & Silverlight.

Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition includes high performance Grid, Docking and Menu frameworks, data binding controls, Scheduler, Data Visualization Chart, Gauge, Diagram and more. Syncfusion Studio UI Edition includes the following individual products: Essential Grid, Essential Tools, Essential Chart (ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight) Essential Diagram (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF), Essential Schedule (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Silverlight), Essential Edit, Essential HTMLUI (Windows Forms), Essential Gauge (WPF, Silverlight).

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

ASP.NET Essential Tools

ASP.NET New Ribbon Control - The Ribbon control is a server control that provides a rich user interface like that of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010. It contains graphical representations of control elements that are grouped by functionality.
ButtonAdv Control - The ButtonAdv control is a fully customizable button control that provides a rich user interface. It supports custom styles for an enhanced appearance, and different orientations for greater control of the layout.
Gallery View - The gallery view provides a highly interactive user interface, containing multiple items with multiple functionalities. It supports adding extra controls, which allows you to add extra functionality to a page.

Essential Maps for WPF and Silverlight

Shape-File Layers - The shape-file layer is the most important component of Essential Maps. It provides a mechanism to upload shape files, which essentially form the content of a map. A shape file is a vector storage format used to collect geometric location information and associated attributes. Shape files spatially describe a map's geometries: points, polylines, and polygons.
Color Palettes - Color palettes are sets of colors that can be applied to a map. With five built-in color palettes, shapes in a map can be differentiated using a varied spread of colors. Using the CustomColorPalette property, you can create your own customized palette.
Zooming and Panning - Zooming and panning is one of the most important functionalities of Essential Maps. By zooming, you can focus on a map's content, essentially magnifying it, or you can shrink it, providing a better overview. By panning, you can traverse a map's regions, navigating in all directions.
Commands - Essential Maps provides several commands that enable users to perform commonly used operations like zooming, panning, and refreshing.
ScreenTips - A ScreenTip is a small pop-up window that displays information when the pointer hovers over a region (shape) in a map. ScreenTips are useful when seeking information specific to a region. They can contain a variety of data, such as region name, or latitude and longitude. With Essential Maps, ScreenTips can be customized by using the AttributesItemSource property.
Navigation Control - The Navigation control is built into Essential Maps. With this control, a map can be panned in any direction and zoomed in or zoomed out. The Navigation control can be placed to the top, bottom, left, or right of a map, or it can be hidden.
Layers - Layers allow a map to load multiple shape files through the shape-file layer. Different layers can house different content. The shapes being displayed can change based on the zoom factor. When the zoom-factor reaches a specified value, the content of a map will change to the corresponding shape-file layer.

Windows Forms

Spelling Checker - The SpellChecker control comes with custom dictionary support, which allows users to add words to the dictionary during run time. This control can also be set to ignore uppercase and mixed-case letters, numbers, URLs, and e-mail addresses.
Essential Edit Right-to-Left Language Support - The Edit control supports rendering content from right to left, enabling editing and syntax highlighting for cultures where right-to-left (RTL) languages are predominant. The RTL feature is comprehensive—supporting bookmarks, line numbers, collapse rectangles, context menus, ToolTips, and all the other features you would find in a left-to-right layout.

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FlexGrid enhances right-to-left support

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:19:00 GMT

Outlook style grouping in FlexGrid for .NET.

ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms 2011 v1 also adds MS Office 2010 visual styles and new methods for easier filtering.

ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms (formerly ComponentOne FlexGrid for .NET) incorporates the latest in data-binding technology, ADO.NET, to integrate seamlessly with the Microsoft .NET Framework. New features include: hierarchical styles, calculated columns, a simpler and more powerful object model, enhanced cell editing (masks, buttons, etc.), better painting (such as scalable images and transparency), object-oriented design and design-time support. ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms also includes FlexGridClassic, a wrapper class that provides an object model with the ActiveX version of the control. ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms is Visual Studio 2010 compatible.

ComponentOne Chart for .NET is also available as part of ComponentOne Studio for WinForms, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise and ComponentOne Studio Ultimate.

Updates in 2011 v1

Enhanced right-to-left support.
Added EditFilter and ClearFilter methods to allow easy control over the filters from UI elements such as menus and toolstrips.
New Language property allows control over localization.
Added clipboard methods: Cut, Copy, and Paste.
New Microsoft Office 2010 visual styles.

About ComponentOne

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

Janus GridEX for .NET supports VS2010

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Outlook style employee list displayed with Janus GridEX for .NET.

Version 4.0 adds Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework Client Profile support, plus Office 2010 visual style.

Janus GridEX for .NET is a data-aware, fully editable Outlook 2010 style grid component that hooks directly into databases. Janus GridEX implements its own data binding mechanism in order to perform sophisticated data manipulation. Janus GridEX for .NET also has an unbound mode for managing data in any format without sacrificing any group or sort capabilities. Janus GridEX includes very complete sample applications so you can add Outlook 2010 look and feel to your applications with Janus Grid Control in no time. Janus GridEX .NET includes an innovative "card view," which provides an easy means of browsing through data. This Janus Grid Control also offers advanced functionality like Office 2010 Visual Style. Janus Grid offers support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework client profiles. Janus GridEX for .NET is 64 bit compatible. Buy Janus GridEX for .NET v4 Site Wide to license an unlimited number of Developers at a Single Physical Address.

Janus GridEX for .NET is also available as part of Janus WinForms Controls Suite.

Updates in V4.0

Office 2010 Visual Style
Support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework client profiles: Janus controls can now be used in projects targeting .Net Framework client profiles.
Support for multiple cell selection: MultipleCellSelection option is now available for SelectionMode property. When this option is selected, user can select multiple cells in the control like in a excel spreadsheet. To retrieve in code which cells are added you can use GridEX.SelectedCells property that returns a collection of selected cells in the control.
ButtonEnabled property in GridEXCell allows you to enable/disable buttons in individual cells.
ButtonStyle property in GridEXCell allows you to have different buttons styles in cells from the same column.
CellDisplayType property in GridEXCell allows you to have different display types for cells in the same column. With this property, you now can have text, image or checkboxes cells under the same column.
EditType property in GridEXCell allows you to have different edit types for cells in the same column. With this property you now can have cells that can be edited as text, combo or as a checkbox under the same column.
Enabled property in GridEXCell allows you to enable/disable individual cells in the control.
ValueList property in GridEXCell allows you to define a valuelist for value replacement and or as the source for the dropdown in a combo editor on each cell.
TreeCollapseGlyph and TreeExpandGlyph properties allows you to customize the expand/collapse images in the control.

About Janus Systems

Janus Systems is the company behind the widely popular Janus GridEX component. The company was founded in 1994. Janus GridEX, a versatile grid component, allows a customer to build a user interface similar to Microsoft's Outlook, complete with tabs, button bars, and tool tips. The component is used today by thousands of corporations from CitiBank to Glaxo Welcome and EDS, located in a broad spectrum of countries from much of Europe through to China and the United States.

Syncfusion Essential Grid adds JSON mode

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

Card View and Filtering Performance demos in Syncfusion Essential Grid.

2011 Vol 1 release JSON mode supports filtering, editing, grouping, column formatting, custom formatting and summaries.

Syncfusion Essential Grid is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

ASP.NET

A row-double-click event handler has been added on the client and server side.
GridGroupingControl's Excel-like edit now works correctly in the Chrome browser for .NET Framework 4.0.
The SourceListRecordChanging event will be canceled when setting e.cancel to True.
Styles can now be set to ButtonBar using the Style tag.
Changing PageSize now works for custom paging.
Caption-text customization now works for custom paging.
ViewState is now enabled for EditItemTemplate's child controls.
The sort indicator will be displayed correctly when a column's name and mapping name are different.
In a grid's child table, an empty cell will not be added to the caption row when the row header displays.
The UseAutoformat property now works correctly when exporting to Excel.
Cell navigation through the Tab key has been implemented for ExcelLikeEdit mode.
The ability to save an exported Excel file to a server has been implemented.
A script error is no longer raised when width is set for an unbound grid.
Rows are now expanded initially when an object's data source is bound to a grid.
Response during custom filtering has been improved.
Grid cell borders now display correctly in Internet Explorer 7 when the item template contains null data.
The ClientSideOnRecordClick event now fires with an event argument in Firefox.
A numeric text box containing a value greater than 999 now updates correctly in ExcelLikeEdit.

ASP.NET MVC

MVC3 support has been added.
Support for JSON mode has been added for filtering, editing, grouping, column formatting, custom formatting, and summaries.
Support for frozen rows and columns has been added.
In GridBuilder, width and height properties have been included.
Filtering now works when rendering a grid inside a form.
Filtering now works for a complex bound column.
The sorting extension no longer causes performance issues.
Grouping can now be disabled for a specific column, and unbound column grouping now works.
The Click action no longer fails in the upper part of grid toolbar items.

Windows Forms

Support for Office 2010 themes has been added.
Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI support for GridControl has been added.
Resizing support through standard cell boundaries for GridControl has been implemented.
Support has been added for exporting content from a GridDataBoundGrid to a Word document.

WPF

Data Template cell renderer revamping.
Implementing support for Minimum and Maximum value for Integer Edit cell.
Implementing support for customize the row and column re size pointer.
Column chooser feature has been implemented.
Context menu feature has been implemented.

Silverlight

Issues with data-template usage have been fixed.
The rendering mechanism has been changed to WriteableBitmap.

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Cardflow 3D features improved animation

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:29:00 GMT

Demo showing validation rules in Xceed DataGrid for WPF.

Xceed DataGrid for WPF V4.2 takes better advantage of the computer's video card to help render card animation.

Xceed DataGrid for WPF is a grid control that in addition to traditional table and card views like Vista, XP, Media Center, or classic styles, allows you to present and edit data in 3D layouts. Features include: rich in-place editing; grouping with UI virtualization; production-quality views (table and card), built-in data validation. Xceed DataGrid for WPF also includes a WPF date picker and a calendar control. Xceed DataGrid for WPF offers compatibility with bound and unbound data sources; flexible object model and fully extensible with reusable parts. Xceed DataGrid for WPF includes Xceed 3D Views for WPF and Xceed Editors for WPF. With Xceed DataGrid for WPF full C# and XAML source code available in the Blueprint Edition. Xceed DataGrid for WPF is also included in the Xceed Ultimate Suite.

Updates in V4.2

Xceed DataGrid for WPF version 4.2 features performance improvements to its Cardflow 3D view. This version takes better advantage of the computer's video card to help render card animation, providing a vastly smoother scrolling experience. The more cards there are, and the bigger they are, the more pronounced the improvements will be. And because this takes the computation burden off the computer's CPU, the application's performance can improve in general.

About Xceed Software

Xceed Software creates, markets and distributes quality software components for Microsoft Windows developers. Since its launch in 1994, Xceed has been devoted exclusively to the Microsoft platform. The company's very first product, Xceed Zip Compression Library, was first offered as a VBX for Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 and has been so successful that it has been migrated to every Microsoft platform since, including ActiveX, the .NET Framework, and the .NET Compact Framework. Today, Xceed's product line can be grouped into two main categories: Data Manipulation components and User Interface components. The Data Manipulation components include compression, encryption and file transfer libraries. The User Interface components include grid, chart, menus, toolbars, treeviews, explorer panes and other interface controls.

Dapfor .Net Grid adds Composite Objects

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:29:00 GMT

Real-time updates in Dapfor .Net Grid.

Version 2.4.0 features Composite Object support which significantly reduces and simplifies application code.

Updates in V2.4.0

Includes Composite Object support which significantly reduces and simplifies application code and enables a more complete separation of the business logic layer from data presentation layer in the GUI. Composite Objects may have properties returning primitive types and references to other objects. When binding to such objects, the grid can display information from the Composite Objects and from referenced objects. The grid binds to the properties and doesn't distinguish between data sources when displaying data. Therefore, there is no need to create intermediate classes or containers aggregating information from different objects for future display in the grid. The grid also supports event-driven models which enables the grid to automatically sort, filter group and highlight data received from Composite Objects.

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Dapfor .Net Grid patched to V2.3.2

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:12:00 GMT

Real-time updates in Dapfor .Net Grid.

Updates in V2.3.2

Added Grid.DataConnection.HandleCurrentChangedEvent property to handle CurrencyManager.Current rows.
When Grid is attached to BindingList, it can show incorrect row number - fixed

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DataGrid for WPF improves MVVM support

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:01:00 GMT

Demo showing validation rules in Xceed DataGrid for WPF.

Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional V4.1 adds the ability to sort based on the results of statistical functions.

Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional is a grid control that in addition to traditional table and card views like Vista, XP, Media Center, or classic styles, allows you to present and edit data in 3D layouts. Features include: rich in-place editing; grouping with UI virtualization; production-quality views (table and card), built-in data validation. Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional also includes a WPF date picker and a calendar control. Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional offers compatibility with bound and unbound data sources; flexible object model and fully extensible with reusable parts. Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition includes Xceed 3D Views for WPF and Xceed Editors for WPF. Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional full C# and XAML source code available in the Blueprint Edition.

Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional is also available as part of Xceed Ultimate Suite.

Updates in V4.1

Improved support of the MVVM architectural pattern
The ability to sort based on the results of statistical functions has been added
Improvements have also been made to how the datagrid interacts with its items source
Styling cell content alignment for specific columns has been simplified
Bug fixes