I have to first apology from all of you because of this long silence. I didn't realize that it has passed that much time since our last post, which may lead that whether we are not on track on new releases. If you think so, you are dead wrong...
Flagship control of Klik! ListLib.Net...LLRichGridView...
I'm glad to present you our grid control, LLRichGridView, which will be available in the upcoming Klik! ListLib.Net. As the name implies, this is a descendant of the well known DataGridView control but wastly improved not only visually but feature wise as well. One good thing is that it's binary compatible with DataGridView so you should be able to simply replace your DataGridViews in your present screens easily. So what's the charm of it, here we go :
New Column Types
LLRichDataGridView includes new feature rich columns, which wastly improves the editing and presentation experience. The actual is like this :
RichDataGridViewEntryColumn : If you are one of the users of Klik! EntryLib.Net and aware of our rich data entry control ELEntryBox, this is simply ELEntryBox in a cell. It allows you to set different validation styles to the entry such as text, numeric, mask, datetime. Apart that it allows you to embed buttons into it's cells as well. As one type of the buttons is dropdown button, you can attach a dropdown control to it to provide dropdown editing capabilities, such as attaching a monthcalendar control into a datetime validated column. Furthermore, it supports rich controls provided in Klik! EntryLib.Net such as ELCalendar and ELCalculator.
RichDataGridViewProgressColumn : So far, if you ever wanted to show progress bars in a cell, you had to ownerdraw a cell to have this capability. With RichDataGridViewProgressColumn that's over. It provides rich formatting capabilities and even allows you to edit the in those cells with a numericupdown control.
RichDataGridViewComboColumn : This column type provides a rich combobox experience which is a tailored version of LLComboBox control, which is another control in Klik! ListLib.Net.
RichDataGridViewRichComboColumn : Ever wanted to show multi column combobox in your grid than this column type is for you.
Data Filtering
Filtering data in a grid is another cruicial feature and is available in LLRichDataGridView out of the box. Users can right click on column headers to bring up the excell style filter dialog and easily select the values they want to see. Programatically, you have the choice to include/exclude any column from being filtered as well as can do a filter yourself.
Printing...
Another must have feature of any modern grid is to have printing support and you get it through LLGridPrintDocument component available in Klik! ListLib.Net.
What about data exporting?
LLRichGridView has built-in csv export capability thus allowing you to easily export your data to be loaded by 3rd party applications such as Excell.
All look great, so when?
The best part is that we already finished the development of Klik! ListLib.Net and now doing the last touches. I'm glad to inform that it'll be available pretty soon, as soon as within this month. Another great news about this is that Klik! Windows Forms Library package will be available along with it's release as well, which means you'll be able to buy all our windows forms line in a single affordable price.
I hope you liked what you saw and see you very soon with the release of this great list controls package for windows forms...
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