DataGridView Extension

DataGridView Extension is not only a component that extends the basic DataGridView control (provided with .NET 2.0 Framework) but it also provides additional functionality.

DataGridView Extension allows both developers and end users to control specific features of the DataGridView control in runtime environment. As part of these features, the appearance and behavior of the control could be modified also.

DataGridView Extension provides additional functionality, such as exporting of data and visualization to Excel documents and Html pages, searching for text in the control and theme management.

Major functionality of DataGridView Extension is that it allows persistence of all changes made to the control: its columns widths, ordering, headers width and height, appearance and behavior.

DataGridView Extension has the ability to manage multiple DataGridView controls in a single project and to store all user settings for every and each of them.

DataGridView Extension allows saving of themes defined by the customer. Themes greatly reduce the labor needed to set a professional looking application. Customers can change the entire application's look and feel with a single click by changing the default theme. Themes can be saved in different applications and even backup.

The DataGridView Extension comes with a set of custom column types that will give the developer additional functionalities of the grid itself.

Here are some key features of "DataGridView Extension":

￭ Theme management. Development of custom themes and styles for DataGridView. ￭ Change various appearance settings of the DataGridView control easily: background color, border style, selection colors, fonts, alignments, etc. ￭ Easy management of DataGridView behavior: columns reordering, resizing of rows and columns,etc. ￭ Allows advanced selection techniques: column, row, smart and multi selection modes. ￭ Powerful exporting of data and visualization to Excel spreadsheets and Html documents. ￭ Intelligent searching capabilities of string values. ￭ Columns managment - change styles, hide or show, freeze and unfreeze columns. ￭ Formatting of all standard types of values - the behavior closely resembles that of Microsoft Excel. ￭ Automatic persistence of all DataGridView appearance and behavior settings and their changes (example: columns widths, ordering, headers width and height).

￭ Easy integration in existing applications both runtime and design time. ￭ Extendable format exporting API. In version 1.0 the DataGridView Extension component is able to export the grid data in Excel and HTML formats. Through DataGridView Extension API developers are able to implement their own data exporters (example: export to PDF). The exporter dll is XCopy deployed - you have just to copy the dll in the folder where resides the DataGridView Extension assembly. ￭ The DataGridView Extension comes with a set of custom column types (DateTime picker and Numeric Up/Down columns) that will provide additional functionalities to the DataGridView itself. ￭ All settings are persisted to an XML file which allows further processing. ￭ All features are programmable through the API (example: themes management, filtering and sorting).

Requirements:

￭ .NET Framework 2.0