Changing the Style of Column Headers/Row Selectors The WinGrid™ control allows you to easily specify the visual appearance of column headers and row selectors. By default, the row selectors will take on the style of the column headers. However, if necessary, you can change the RowSelectorStyle property in order to...
Choosing a Data Source for Your Application Whenever deciding which implementation to use, it is important to understand the implications of each solution. For example, you can easily create an entire data model by using Visual Studio and dragging and dropping various Database entities onto a form and that will ge...
ClickCell Event The ClickCell event is useful to monitor which cell the end-user clicked. Using this event you can perform logic that is geared towards individual cells such as populating other Form elements with the individual cell values. The following example shows this event being handled: In Visual Basic: In ...
Clipboard Support for WinGrid Considering that Copy and Paste are two of the most commonly used functions in word processing and text editing applications, we have now given WinGrid™ clipboard functionality. In addition to clipboard support within the WinGrid control itself, WinGrid now provides clipboard support ...
Collapsible Child Bands The UltraGrid has the ability to show ExpansionIndicators at the header of each child band. This improves the user’s ability to navigate between sibling bands with large data sets within the same parent band. The following screenshot demonstrates a child band collapsed, allowing for easier ...
Collapsing Column Groups The UltraGridGroups collection allows you to hide all columns assigned to them. This improves the readability of your grid by allowing users to quickly prioritize information most relevant to them. The following screenshot demonstrates the UltraGrid control with expansion indicators on the...
Column Chooser The Column Chooser feature lets you display a dialog box from which the user can select columns to display in the WinGrid™ control. This feature emulates Microsoft Outlook’s Field Chooser dialog box. The Column Chooser feature is comprised of the following two key components: UltraGridColumnChooser ...
Column Styles Added The Style property of the UltraGridColumn is for convenience. It lets you set the edit style of a column to one of the commonly used edit styles. This list does not include all the styles that are available. If a style is not listed in this enumeration, you can use the Editor property along wit...
Column Swapping in RowLayout Column swapping functionality is enabled by setting the AllowColSwapping property to WithinBand or WithinGroup. When enabled, a drop down arrow is shown in each column header. When this drop down arrow is clicked upon, a list of columns is displayed. Selecting a column from the list wi...
Column TabIndex Property By default the WinGrid™ determines the tab order of the cells based on their locations. You can use the TabIndex property on the UltraGridColumn to control the order in which the WinGrid traverses cells of a row when the tab key is used. The default value of the property is -1 . This means...