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Current version: 3.6 (New version)
Platform: WPF, .NET 3.5
Price: $799.95
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WPF / .NET Technology
  • Created entirely for WPF and built with .NET 3.5 SP1, written in C# and XAML. (Version 2.0 of this product, which is compatible with .NET 3.0, is still available, as is version 3.1, which is compatible with .NET 3.5.)
  • Complete source code is available in the Blueprint Edition. (Only available with the Professional Edition. Also includes the source code for Xceed 3D Views for WPF and Xceed Editors for WPF.)
  • Supports UI virtualization, even when grouping data, so only elements currently in view are created and kept, meaning faster loading time, uses less memory.
  • Design-time support in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend.
  • Design-time configuration window that lets you set up the most important features quickly and easily.
  • XBAP-friendly, CLS compliant, and uses no unsafe blocks. No special permissions are required, so it can run within the limited permission set granted to XBAP applications.
  • Based on a flexible and extensible object model, with modular and reusable visual elements.
  • The datagrid's cells are true WPF content controls, so they can contain anything.
  • UI automation enables the use of assistive technologies and script-based testing.
  • Supports the WPF command infrastructure, for example letting you map a toolbar button to "enter edit" in a cell.
  • Comprehensive documentation fully integrated into Visual Studio .NET is provided.
  • Supports Right-To-Left and Inking.
  • Supports regional settings including numbers, money type, dates, etc.
  • Includes a variety of VB.NET and C# sample applications to get you started.
  • All error handling works through .NET exception classes.
  • Can also be used in your Windows Forms applications.
Rich in-place editing
  • Features rich in-place editing that works in all views. See Included editor controls below.
  • Auto-detection of ComboBox columns (enums, foreign keys). (New in v3.2)
  • Updates source when the cell or row exits edit mode or immediately when the cell content changes.
  • Routed edit events for both cell and row, providing fine-grained control over the edit process.
  • Provides configurable keyboard and mouse edit commands.
  • Programmatic control over edit mode.
  • Provides Excel-like default keyboard and mouse edit behavior, including F2, Esc (cancel edit on a cell and restore the original value), Double-Esc (cancel edit on the entire row and restore the original values), and Enter.
  • Allows you to specify a different visual template for a cell being edited.
  • Cell editors can be displayed without entering edit mode, under a variety of conditions such as a mouse hover over the cell or row, the cell or row becoming current, the row being edited, or always.
  • Single-click edit mode allows entering edit mode and activating items such as check, text, and combo boxes with one click.
  • Automatically selects the appropriate editor control depending on the field data type.
  • Insertion row / card object allows for quick entry of new data.
  • Triggers meaningful edit events for both rows and cells.
  • Manages “null” and “DbNull” values.
  • Any portion of the grid can be made read-only.
Master/detail capabilities
  • The single-scrollbar approach used in detail grids provides a more professional, integrated master/detail experience than the awkward scrollbar-within-scrollbar approach used by competing datagrids.
  • Provides hierarchical master/detail capabilities.
  • Each datarow in the main grid or in a detail can have an unlimited number of details attached to it.
  • Details can have “sibling” or “child” details, or both.
  • Details support headers and footers, grouping, sorting, and autofiltering.
  • Different style for the data items contained in each same-level detail.
  • Custom grouping in grid and details supported.
  • Custom detail relations supported.
Data grouping
  • Supports hierarchical, multi-level grouping in all views.
  • Customizable group-level configurations with header and footer support.
  • Supports UI virtualization, preserving memory and reducing load time, even when grouping.
  • Supports custom grouping criteria, to allow your code to group together rows with your own conditions.
  • Interactive, hierarchical “Group-by” row allows end-users to easily create and manipulate groups themselves. Adapted for all included views.
  • Programmatic control over expanding and collapsing groups.
  • Grouping can be controlled via code.
Views and themes
  • Presents data and lets users edit it in a variety of 2D and 3D views and themes. Can switch between 2D and 3D views in real-time while preserving state.
  • Ships with the stunning, interactive Cardflow™ 3D view, with multiple card layouts. More are currently being developed.
  • Ships with the Tableflow™ 2D view, which provides inertial smooth scrolling and animated full-column reordering, zero-lag data virtualization. (New in v3.5)
  • Ships with two other 2D views (traditional table view and card view). Achieve the look of traditional XP or Vista applications with a true native WPF control.
  • Ships with several backgrounds, as well as textures for 2D and 3D cards.
  • Project template for Visual Studio that sets up a new theme project so you can create your own. A tutorial on creating a custom theme is also included to help you get started.
  • Eighteen striking themes in all:
    • Glass, Windows Media Player 11, and Zune. (Glass theme currently not available for Tableflow™ view)
    • All Microsoft Windows themes: Classic (NT), Luna (Normal/Olive, Metallic/Silver, Homestead/Blue), Aero (Vista), and Royale (Media Center).
    • A vibrant Window 7 theme. (New in v3.6)
    • Office 2007: Blue, Black, and Silver.
    • The Xceed Live Explorer theme. (New in v3.6)
    • 3D view, multi-surface: Office themes (Blue, Black, and Silver); Chameleon.
  • Each theme provides an alternating row style that can be activated through the TableView class.
  • Various cursors—such as "busy", "resize", and "drag" cursors—can be customized in the different views. (New in v3.6)
  • Includes the commented XAML source code to the card and table view styles and templates, so you have a great starting point for developing your own.
Cardflow™ 3D view
  • Gives end-users complete control over their experience.
  • Multiple card layouts and transitions.
  • Controls the offsets, spacing, and angles of cards.
  • Controls camera position and angle
  • Controls field of view.
  • Four themes: Office 2007 themes (Blue, Black, and Silver); Chameleon.
Tableflow™ 2D view (New in v3.5)
  • Fast animated smooth scrolling (with inertia) for impressive UI performance.
  • Works when using data virtualization for great perceived responsiveness.
  • Sticky group headers (group headers are always visible).
  • Sticky master-detail master row and headers.
  • Full-column animated drag and drop reordering.
  • Also has all the features of the classic (see below).
  • An innovative new group navigation control in the TableflowTM view greatly increases the datagrid’s usability. A first in any WPF datagrid, it lets the end-user go instantly to any group or sub-group with a single click in a combo box. (New in v3.6)
2D card view
  • Defaults to cards stacked into columns, with horizontal scrolling.
  • Two types of card view styles are included: compact card view (borderless cards with column separator lines) and standard card view (cards with borders, but no separator lines).
  • Supports grouping with multiple levels. Group-by row includes built-in list of columns, so end-users can still group by columns and reorder fields even if there are no column headers. Group headers flow within the card list.
  • Cards can be independently sized, each card sizing itself to its content.
  • Resizable cards in CardView.
  • Allows you to hide empty fields on a per-card basis.
  • Insertion card lets users quickly add new data to the grid.
Classic 2D table view
  • Column auto-sizing / stretching and starrable column widths.
  • Custom sorting.
  • Fixed columns (UI widget + programmatic control).
  • Context menu column chooser: lets end-users add or remove columns.
  • Includes an Outlook-style table view with all the typical elements you would expect.
  • Column headers support drag-and-drop column reordering, column resizing, click-to-sort, and dragging to "Group-by" row.
  • Row margin selects and resizes rows, and displays icons indicating that the row is current, is being edited, is an insertion, or has a validation error.
  • Provides horizontal and vertical Grid line brush and grid line thickness properties.
  • Automatically changes a row’s height to fit the contents of the largest cell.
Input validation
  • Supports IDataErrorInfo.
  • Supports IEditableObject and error style when IEditableObject’s EndEdit throws an exception when trying to leave edit mode.
  • Includes built-in data validation, at the cell or row level.
  • Error display is integrated with the included views.
  • You can completely style the way a cell or row looks when a validation error occurs.
  • Can validate on any criteria, including the values of other cells.
  • Validation error messages are overridable and localizable.
  • Expandable and compatible with custom validation rules you have already built.
Included editor controls
  • CheckBox.
  • AutoSelectTextBox.
  • DatePicker/Calendar.
  • ValueRangeTextBox.
  • NumericTextBox.
  • MaskedTextBox.
  • DateTimeTextBox.
  • Several editors available in the “Included
    Editors” sample:
    • IPAddressMaskedTextBox.
    • PhoneMaskedTextBox (North American format).
    • Simple CurrencyMaskedTextBox.
    • ExponentNumericTextBox.
    • DateTimeTextBox (with ShortDate, ShortTime, ShortDateAndShortTime, and ShortDateAndLongTime formats).
  • All controls are 100% stylable and templatable.
    Data binding
    • Indicator glyphs let end-users know when virtualized data is being loaded and committed, and when there has been an error. (New in v3.5)
    • Support for Entity Framework data sources, making the developer’s job easier when he or she must work with different types of data sources, as there is less code to write. (New in v3.2)
    • Ability to customize the content of the AutoFilterControl, which allows any ListBox- or Selector-based control to handle how a specific column’s values are automatically filtered. (New in v3.2)
    • Provides column virtualization, which allows you to work with a large number of columns while keeping performance reasonable.
    • Data virtualization (sometimes called “virtual mode” or “lazy loading”) vastly improves performance and reduces memory usage, especially when working with large data sources. Also supports grouping and data sources implementing IQueryable (LINQ).
    • Because it’s asynchronous, the data virtualization implementation decouples the UI from the data source, which keeps the application responsive while data is being retrieved. It also supports caching, pre-emptive data loading, and delayed triggering of events to avoid needless querying during scrolling.
    • Filtering (auto filtering and filter row) in virtualized collection view, letting you combine the advantage of a data virtualization performance boost and the flexibility of filtering. (New in v3.5)
    • Inserting records into non-IBindingList sources.
    • Easy binding to XML data sources.
    • Excel-like end-user filtering, which provides a drop-down box in the column header, allowing end-users to filter by one or more items, on a per-column basis.
    • Custom CollectionView that provides fine-grained and efficient control over its underlying data source.
    • Fully supports WPF data binding.
    • Displays, edits, and works with bound and unbound data.
    • Directly supports unbound columns, allowing for example the display of static information such as a delete button for each row, etc. (New in v3.2)
    • Supports unbound data fields, which facilitates the use of calculated columns. (New in v3.2)
    • Custom key-value mappings, which lets you map any kind of value or object to fields in the data that represent keys, such as mapping an employee first and last name fields to an integer ID field in an employee database. (New in v3.2)
    • Can be bound directly to an array of simple types such as String, Decimal, DateTime, TimeSpan, Guid, or Primitive (e.g., SByte, Byte, Int32, etc.), and will show the value of those types in one column.
    • Automatically obtains and synchronizes bound data from any .NET source, including jagged arrays, any object that implements IListSource or IList, and any ADO.NET DataSet, DataTable, DataView, or DataViewManager object.
    • Can intercept, parse, and modify data being synchronized with the database from the grid.
    Other features
    • Includes Xceed 3D Views for WPF and Xceed Editors for WPF.
    • Support for HP’s QuickTest Professional (QTP), in addition to the currently supported White and Ranorex, allowing for automated UI testing. (New in v3.6)
    • Excel export of grid contents, including groups, detail content, and statistical functions (formulas and values), using XMLSS or CSV.
    • Excel-like cell and row selection capabilities (single, multiple, and extended modes), letting end-users select and copy blocks of cells or rows.(New in v3.6)
    • Clipboard copy support allows content from the grid to be copied to any other supported application (e.g., Excel, Word, Notepad). Can be sent to the clipboard as HTML or CSV.
    • Persist user settings: saves the positions and states of columns, as well as grouping and sorting states, etc. Can be extended by developers to persist other aspects.
    • Delete selected rows command: in master grid, in details, or both.
    • Ability to enable or disable sorting, grouping, and column reordering via the UI.
    • Full keyboard navigation is possible through cells and rows. Navigation can be limited to cell-only or row-only, or navigation can be disabled.
    • Allows multiple-field sort and custom criteria sort.
    • Provides easy manipulation of the grid’s current row.
    • Scrolls the view to any cell, row, group, or column.
    • Scroll tip displays information about the first visible row in the viewport when the grid is scrolled.
    • Allows elements other than columns to be fixed.
    • Provides fixed, non-scrolling header and footer regions into which you can put any number and type of row or card.
    • 14 statistical functions that can be used both inside and outside of a grid in any element.
    • Row scrolling is configurable to be immediate (items are scrolled immediately as the thumb is dragged) or deferred (items are not scrolled until the scroll thumb is released).
    • Customizable “today” label in the Calendar.
    • Ability to create alternating styles for data rows.
    • Built-in printing and XPS-exporting capabilities with fully customizable progress dialogs and page layouts.
    • Print preview capabilities let the end-user see what a document will look like before printing it—page view and layout configurations are reflected in the preview. And everything happens in the background, so there is no waiting for the entire preview to be generated. (New in v3.6)
    • Customizable group-header control display.
    • A Resource Center that centralizes various DataGrid for WPF assets and provides a news feed for the latest developments concerning the product.
    Live demonstration
    • Try the Live Explorer XBAP application, which demonstrates the datagrid and lets you get a feel for it without installing anything. Also available as a stand-alone .EXE when you download Xceed DataGrid for WPF.