Formatting and Appearance based Performance Improvement Painting Painting Wingrid™, or any other control, can often be a source of performance issues if not taken seriously. This is especially true when multiple operations are performed on the control in code at run-time, each of which causes the control to be inv...
Formatting Cells Containing Dates Background User input into cells containing dates need to be formatted for display and follow localization guidelines so that dates display differently in different localities. Questions How do I display a date/time field with just the month, day, and year? How do I display the mo...
Formatting Cells Containing Specific Number of Characters Background User input into cells which should contain a specific number of characters of input with each character being of a specific input type (ex: US style phone number (316) 555-1212) are best formatted using the WinGrid™ MaskInput features. Questions ...
Generating the XSD Schema (Part 2 of 4) This topic continues from Setting Up a Project for XSD Support (Part 1 of 4). Schema Overview In this section of the tutorial we will create the XSD schema which provides the data source’s structure and the data constraints used by the WinGrid™. The schema describes a simple...
Generic Lists The .NET Framework 2.0 features support for Generics. System.ComponentModel.BindingList is a Generic collection that allows you to specify a Type and provides the built in support for complex data binding normally found in the traditional IBindingList implementations. Implementing a BindingList of yo...
Getting Excel Formula Values into WinGrid Before You Begin Sometimes you may want to import an Excel file into WinGrid™. Consider an Excel Worksheet that contains some data as well as a column that is calculated by Excel Formulas. This topic will show you how to get the calculated values of Excel Formulas into a W...
Getting Started with WinGrid Click the link below to find information on how to get up and running quickly with the WinGrid™ control. Adding WinGrid to a Form — Shows you how to add the WinGrid control to a Windows form, as well as how to create and bind data to the WinGrid control. Using the WinGrid Designer
GroupBy Break Behavior Whenever you enable Outlook GroupBy, the end user can drag and drop column headers into the GroupBy Area. This action, by default, causes WinGrid™ to create a distinct list of values for the dragged column and each distinct value becomes a parent row. The rows that are associated with each d...
GroupBy View WinGrid™ supports an intuitive and powerful way to organize your data - GroupBy view. GroupBy view gives the user the ability to create custom groupings of records on the fly and to work with customized mini-datasets that focus on just the records of interest. GroupBy mode is similar to a concept foun...
Grouping Columns in Row Layout Mode using the Designer Before You Begin The Row Layout with Group mode enables you to create groups that contain columns as well as other groups thus offering multi – level grouping within WinGrid™. What you will accomplish This walkthrough will show you how to add Groups using the ...