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DataGridView Extension Features

End-User Features

  • Powerful exporting of data and visualization to Excel spreadsheets, Html and Pdf documents
  • Print functionality
  • Theme management. Development of custom themes and styles for DataGridView
  • Themes export/import
  • Intelligent searching capabilities
  • 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
  • Columns management - change styles, hide or show, freeze and unfreeze columns. Custom column style - formatting, alignment, colors, etc.
  • Formatting of all standard types of values - the behavior closely resembles that of Microsoft Excel
  • Advanced selection techniques: column, row, smart and multi selection modes
  • Automatic persistence of all DataGridView appearance and behavior settings and their changes (example: columns widths, ordering, headers width and height)
  • End-user manual

Developer Features

  • Extends the standard DataGridView control, in single line of code without requiring inheritance
  • Easy integration in existing applications both runtime and design time
  • Extendable format exporting API. In version 1.1 the DataGridView Extension component is able to export the grid data in Excel, HTML and Pdf formats. Through DataGridView Extension API developers are able to implement their own data exporters. 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)
  • Security features – the developers can define which features of the extensions should be accessible for the end-user and which not. The security can be defined for all grids and all columns and also per grid and per column
  • Developer’s help