SandGrid

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Add a professional, versatile list control to your application. SandGrid is a list control capable of displaying data in tabular and hierarchical form. It was designed from the ground up to support trees of items and to be truly extensible. Because of its special architecture it offers a replacement for the ListView, TreeView and DataGridView controls - offering more customization options and a consistent development experience.

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SandGrid V2.0.1 - includes 1 year free product updates and unlimited email support

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What’s New in V2.0.1

• NEW: The EditorType of a column can now be set at design-time
• FIX: When using rubber-band selection in a small grid with StretchPrimaryGrid set to false, the coordinates of the rectangle could be incorrectly restricted
• FIX: A tooltip was shown on GridConditionalImageColumn
• FIX: When dynamically filtering rows with the SetFilteredOut method, a measure and layout cycle was not always triggered
• FIX: Assigning to the EditorType property of GridChooseEditorEventArgs could fail

What’s New in V2.0

• NEW: GridButtonColumn and GridHyperlinkColumn added
• NEW: AutoSort property on columns replaced with AutoSortType; interactive multi-column sort is now possible
• NEW: SandTreeView control added, a simpler control designed to mimic a TreeView without the SandGrid features irrelevant to such a task
• NEW: Rubber-band selection of items is now possible and automatically works when multiple selection is enabled
• NEW: Selection of group heading objects with the mouse is now possible
• NEW: ShowRootLines property added to InnerGrid and SandGrid classes
• NEW: SetFilteredOut method added to GridRow: rows can now be selectively filtered out from view
• NEW: GridFriendlyGroupNameColumn added for easy creation of arbitrary groups at design time
• NEW: ShrinkToFit property added to SandGridPrintDocument
• NEW: The Office 2007 renderer now allows you to choose between Excel-like and Outlook-like column headers
• NEW: The Office 2007 renderer now allows you to choose between divider and button group header styles, to facilitate emulating the collapsible Outlook TreeView
• NEW: ChooseEditor event added to SandGrid: you can now dynamically select which editor is used for a cell
• NEW: HScrollOffset and VScrollOffset properties exposed in the grid
• NEW: CellVerticalAlignment property added to columns
• NEW: Generic GridColumn<T> and GridCell<T> types added
• NEW: Cells have a BackColor property
• NEW: StandardTab property allows the Tab key to work in a standard way even in a grid with cells, if necessary
• NEW: ColumnResized event added to SandGrid
• NEW: HideSelection property introduced
• IMPROVED: Exporting facilities improved to better handle strings and newlines
• FIX: The PrimaryColumn property could be reset in the designer
• FIX: Ctrl-A could be used to select all elements within the grid even when multiple selection was disabled
• FIX: Cell images are now accounted for in automatic measurement of rows
• CHANGE: Group property replaced with GroupColumn and GroupDirection properties, separating grouping from sorting
• CHANGE: Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are caught differently, meaning if you have menu items that attempt to catch these, the menu items will now succeed in doing so. Divelements have exposed the ClipboardOperations class so your application can call the default functionality

What's new in V1.2:

• NEW: Build machine activation is supported
• NEW: Office 2007 renderer now included with the product
• NEW: AllowPaste property added; grid now supports automatic pasting from the clipboard in either plain text or CSV format
• NEW: FlatRows property added to SandGrid class
• NEW: The grid itself draws a themed border when themes are enabled in the operating system

Overview

Data in a SandGrid control can come from many sources - it operates in both bound and unbound states without compromising on features in either mode of operation. It complies with the standard Windows Forms databinding model and understands data sources from the simple IList to the advanced IBindingListView. It also offers a middle ground between bound and unbound operation with virtual rows, which give you the speed of only having your data in one location without sacrificing the flexibility of presentation.

Sorting and grouping are fundamental to data display and SandGrid fully supports both with an extensible, lightning-fast API. The grid will automatically enable sorting and grouping by any column when populated. When bound to data it will use the data's native sorting methods, and when unbound its own native sorting is used. You can even establish different sorting on different levels of data, when operating as a tree of nodes. Standard single-column as well as advanced multi-column sorting is supported. Grouping is automatically applied to the first level of sort, if enabled.

SandGrid ships with a number of specialized column and cell types for quickly integrating with different types of data. A DateTime column knows how to group date information in a user-friendly manner, and various image columns know how to translate a row of data into an image selection to display. A ProgressBar column can display progress for individual cells. It is easy to add your own columns and cells with their own distinct behavior and look and feel. Columns can be autosized based on their contents, based on the available screen space or set to fixed widths. Of course, the user can change column widths and SandGrid supports a mechanism to quickly serialize the state of any grid - including column widths, visibility, display order and sort state.

The SandGrid architecture is such that every element in the grid receives its own mouse commands and is responsible for its own painting. This design offers tremendous extensibility possibilities, and several features of the library itself take full advantage. A special kind of row allows you to nest another full-featured grid within itself, and of course this can be used recursively to represent trees of data with different schemas. This is best illustrated by binding to a hierarchical data source such as a DataSet with relations. Related views are automatically made available and can be expanded and explored.

Features

General

• Easily replaces the ListView, TreeView and DataGridView controls
• Fast sorting (both single and multi-column supported)
• Outlook style grouping on the first level of sort
• Full-featured independent nested grids
• Use bound or unbound without sacrificing capabilities
• Printable including Print Preview
• Virtual rows bridge the gap between ease of binding and flexibility of static data
• Supports both row and cell level selection, with configurable highlights
• Optimized text display engine ensures very fast drawing
• Pluggable renderer support for customised drawing of common elements
• Editing support through an extensible editor framework
• Export to HTML function
• Grid lines in horizontal, vertical, or both directions
• Automatic clipboard handling
• Highly customizable and extensible

Columns

• Autosized columns based on either screen space or column contents
• User resizing and autosizing
• Hidden columns
• Reordering through drag and drop
• Specialized column types decrease development time
• Automatic sorting
• Easy serialization of column state (width, visibility, display order, sorting)

Rows

• Every row has a collection of child rows for true hierarchical data
• Shading of alternate rows
• User resizing
• Reordering through drag and drop

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Support

Each license includes 1 year of minor upgrades and email technical support.