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Current version: 3.2 (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. (New in v2.0)
  • 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. (New in v3.1)
  • 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. (New in v3.0)
  • Routed edit events for both cell and row, providing fine-grained control over the edit process. (New in v3.0)
  • 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 two 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. (New in v3.0)
  • 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 and Windows Media Player 11, and Zune
    • All Microsoft Windows themes: Classic (NT), Luna (Normal/Olive, Metallic/Silver, Homestead/Blue), Aero (Vista), and Royale (Media Center)
    • Office 2007: Blue, Black, and Silver
    • 3D view, multi-surface: Office themes (Blue, Black, and Silver); Chameleon. (New in v3.0)
  • Each theme provides an alternating row style that can be activated through the TableView class. (New in v3.1)
  • 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 features
  • 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.
2D Card view features
  • 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.
2D Table view features
  • Column auto-sizing / stretching and starrable column widths. (New in v3.0)
  • Custom sorting. (New in v3.0)
  • 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. (New in v3.0)
  • Supports IEditableObject and error style when IEditableObject’s EndEdit throws an exception when trying to leave edit mode. (New in v3.0)
  • 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. (New in v2.0)
  • NumericTextBox. (New in v2.0)
  • MaskedTextBox. (New in v2.0)
  • DateTimeTextBox. (New in v2.0)
  • Several editors available in the “Included
    Editors” sample (New in v2.0):
    • 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
    • Support for Entity Framework data sources. (New in v3.2; Professional Edition only)
    • Ability to customize the content of the AutoFilterControl. (New in v3.2; Professional Edition only)
    • Provides column virtualization. (New in v3.0)
    • Data virtualization (sometimes called “virtual mode” or “lazy loading”) vastly improves performance and reduces memory usage, especially when working with large data sources. (New in v3.1)
    • 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.(New in v3.1)
    • Inserting records into non-IBindingList sources. (New in v3.0)
    • Easy binding to XML data sources. (New in v3.0)
    • Excel-like end-user filtering automatically filters items contained in the underlying data source.
    • 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.
    • Excel export of grid contents, including groups, detail content, and statistical functions (formulas and values), using XMLSS or CSV. (New in v3.1)
    • 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. (New in v3.1)
    • 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. (New in v3.1)
    • Delete selected rows button: in master grid, in details, or both. (New in v3.1)
    • 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.
    • Configurable item scrolling (immediate or deferred).
    • 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.
    • 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. (New in v2.0)
    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.