Highly customizable appearance

• General color styles for checkboxes, scrollbars and control background
• Different color styles for every state of Columns, Groups and Items
• Styles can be inherited from the parent control
• Appearance of the Columns and Items can be set by custom images or color schemes
• Columns can be drawn over items
• Columns can have space between them
• Items can have space between them
• Partial or Full Transparency
• Customizable border with three shapes and control over visibility of each border side
• Office 2007 fading effect with five speed levels
• Watermarks
• Theme support
• Visual Styles
  • Vista
  • XP
  • Classic

Columns

• Every column can have header and footer
• Header of column can contain text and image
• Text of the column header and footer can be formatted by using special XML tags
• Control over border shapes, corners and visibility for the column header, body and footer
• Separate color style for each state of the column (Normal, Hovered and Selected state)
• Each column can contain text and image
• Fixing the columns to the left or right side of the control layout
• The width of the column can be fixed
• Permission over reordering the columns
• Column can be visible or hidden

Groups

• Color and format styles for each group
• Group can be expanded/collapsed
• The group header can have three different appearances
  • BottomLine
  • CenterLine
  • Gradient

Items

• Separate color style for each state of the item (Normal, Disabled, Hovered, Selected and Focused)
• Each item can contain subitems, text, image, checkbox, flag, hyperlinks and custom controls
• Text of the item and subitems can be formatted by using special XML tags
• Control over item border shapes and visibility
• Item can be visible or hidden
• Every item can be grouped
• Context Menus
• Item text is editable

Behavior

• Multiple item selection
• Arrange items in four list view appearances
  • Details
  • List
  • LargeIcons
  • SmallIcons
• Permissions over column reordering, Drag&Drop operations, selection check, hover selection, label edit
• Advanced Drag&Drop operations
  • Predefined – items can be reordered showing the reorder position mark
  • Custom – create your own Drag&Drop operation
• Advanced sort operations
  • Predefined – columns can be sorted by the content value: String, Integer and Double
  • Custom – create your own sort operation
• XML encoding
  • The columns, groups and items text can contain hyperlinks, substrings with different colors and font
  • Text can be shown in multiple lines or paragraphs
• XML serialization
  • Support for serialization in files
  • Support for serialization in streams