Cursor Filter Cursors are normally specified as a property setting on a control or on an Appearance object that the control or one of its objects exposes. However, there are rare occasions when this flexibility is not enough (e.g. when the developer wants to specify a custom cursor to be used during a resize of an...
Customizing Assembly Resource Strings Each Infragistics assembly is equipped with a feature that allows you to quickly and easily change any string value that is displayed to the end user by a Ultimate UI for Windows Forms control/component. Customizable strings include items such as dialog box captions, message t...
Deploying Your Application After you have compiled a .NET application that contains Ultimate UI for Windows Forms controls/components, you will then need to deploy the application. For Windows Forms applications, you generally deploy the application to any individual client workstation that will be using the appli...
Deployment Overview The first step in deploying applications that include tools from the Ultimate UI for Windows Forms toolset is to determine what resources you will need to include as part of your deployment package. Click on the links to learn what resources each of the elements requires as part of deployment. ...
Deprecated Properties There always comes a time in a product’s life cycle when, in order to make vast improvements, minor changes need to be made. These changes may affect your application. In Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2006 Volume 2, we needed to deprecate a few properties, mostly as a result of our new Applic...
Developer’s Guide The Developer’s Guide is exactly what the title states – a guide for you, the developer. This integral section of the help contains a wealth of important information about Ultimate UI for Windows Forms controls and components. This section features hundreds of topics ranging from descriptions of ...
Drag Once Databinding In Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0) Drag-Once Databinding was implemented for Infragistics data-driven controls. The following is a list of the controls that are affected: UltraLabel - DefaultBindingProperty(Text) TextEditorControlBase - DefaultBindingProperty(Text) UltraCheckEditor - ...
Draw Filter An element’s appearance can be easily controlled by setting various properties on Appearance objects exposed by PLF-based controls. However, occasionally a requirement comes along that isn’t supported by the control. This is where a draw filter is invaluable. All controls that are based on the PLF expo...
Embeddable Editors Version 2.0 of the PLF introduced a very powerful and flexible extensibility mechanism called embeddable editors. An embeddable editor is an object that can be embedded within another component’s UIElement(s) to render and optionally edit data values. The following summarizes the main players an...
Event Managers Some PLF-based controls expose a convenient facility for temporarily disabling their events and for checking if an event is being raised. The following sample code illustrates how it is used. In Visual Basic: In C#: