Touch Support

Bring your software to life with intelligent touch-based applications. Your end-users can scroll a GridControl's contents (horizontally and vertically), reorder columns, group and sort data via touch on any touch enabled screen.

Instant Feedback™ UI Mode is an asynchronous loading mode. When used, the DevExpress Silverlight Grid Control and the host application will always remain responsive to user actions regardless of data operations initiated against the grid - from record scrolling, sorting, grouping and data filtering (because data loading is performed asynchronously, in a background thread).

Video: Instant Feedback UI Mode | Help Topic: Instant Feedback™ UI Mode | Demo: Instant Feedback™ WCF

Master-Detail Data Representation

You can display "one-to-many" data relationships of any complexity. Since there are no limits to the number of relationships or nesting levels, each record can expand multiple detail grids and each detail record can have its own detail information.

Examples: Setup Simple Tabbed Details | Examples: Expanding and Collapsing Master Rows | Help Topic: Master-Detail Data Representation

The most widely accepted and used method of presenting data is built-into the DXGrid. This view supports powerful layout customization features such as Fixed Columns, Field Chooser Window, Column Auto Width, Column Reordering and Resizing, and Automatic Column Width Adjustment (Best Fit).

Video: Data Shaping Features | Video: Right to Left Support | Help Topic: Table View | Demo: Standard Table View

A multi-column tree view displays hierarchical data in a tree-like format, where columns represent data fields and nodes represent data records. This view supports multi-column display of hierarchical data, data shaping and layout customization features such as Sorting and Filtering, Data Editing via Embedded Cell Editors, Advanced Scrolling Options, Column Auto Width, Column Reordering and Resizing, Fixed Columns, UI Virtualization and Per-Pixel Vertical Scrolling, Field Chooser Window and Extendable Context Menus.

Examples: How to Manually Create a Tree | Help Topic: Tree View | Demo: TreeList View

Both the Grid View and the Tree View fully support unlimited data sorting and grouping. When sorting and/or grouping data, you can include as many columns as your business needs dictate.

Predefined Group Intervals ● Sort and Group by Display Text ● Custom Sorting and Grouping Algorithms

Video: Custom Data Sorting | Video: Custom Data Grouping | Examples: How to Implement Custom Sorting | Examples: How to Implement Custom Grouping | Help Topic: Sorting Overview | Help Topic: Grouping Overview | Demo: Grouping | Demo: Group Intervals

Using the Silverlight Grid's API, you can apply any filter criteria programmatically. End-users can also modify the currently applied filter condition using the following visual elements:

Built-in Filter Editor Dialog ● Microsoft Excel style Filter Dropdowns ● Auto-Filter Row ● Filter Panel ● Most Recently Used Filter List

Examples: Data Filtering | Help Topic: Filtering | Demo: Data Filtering | Demo: Filter Control | Demo: Auto-Filter Row

Our Silverlight DataGrid Control allows you to quickly analyze your data by displaying aggregate function values calculated against the entire dataset or data groups. When using data grouping, you can also sort your data based on summary values, thus accessing the most important information more easily.

Examples: Totals and Summaries | Help Topic: Data Summaries Overview | Demo: Data Group Summaries | Demo: Grid Summaries | Demo: Sort By Summary

Our Silverlight Data Editors Library provides a collection of controls that can be embedded into grid cells for editing and better data presentation. Other data editing features include the following:

Create Data Editors and Viewers Using Templates ● Microsoft Outlook Style "New Item" Row ● Advanced Input Validation

Video: Bind, Edit and Save Data with WCF RIA Services | Video: Data Editors, Error Notifications and Adding New Records | Examples: Data Editing | Examples: Data Validation | Help Topic: Data Editing and Validation | Demo: Cell Editors | Demo: New Item Row | Demo: Data Validation

The DevExpress Grid Control for Silverlight supports client-side printing. A complete set of templates and styles allow you to customize the appearance and layout of grid rows and cells in a printed document. A grid can also be exported to popular formats such as PDF, Excel, RTF, XPS, Text, CSV, MHT, HTML, Image (PNG, BMP, etc).

Video: Printing, Exporting, Theming, and Serializing the Silverlight Grid from DevExpress | Examples: How to Preview the DXGrid Before It Is Printed | Help Topic: Printing and Exporting | Demo: Advanced Printing Options | Demo: Using Printing Templates

Powerhouse Multi-Column Lookup Control

The DevExpress Silverlight Lookup Control is a multi-column combo box that provides lookup functionality. The DevExpress Silverlight Grid control is embedded within the lookup control's dropdown, providing the editor with fully customizable data-processing and data-representation capabilities.

The DevExpress Silverlight Lookup Control can be used on a standalone basis or as an in-place editor within container controls such as the DevExpress Silverlight Grid Control.

Examples: LookUpEdit | Help Topic: Lookup Edit | Demo: Grid Cell Multi-Column Lookup Editor

The DevExpress Silverlight Grid provides comprehensive record selection support. Rows and cells can be selected both programmatically and at runtime.

Examples: Row and Cell Selection | Help Topic: Focus and Navigation | Demo: Multi-Row Selection | Demo: Multi-Cell Selection

The Expression Editor is a UI enhancement that was ported from our award winning WinForms product line to Silverlight. With this dialog, you can visually build expressions that use field values, constants, numerous predefined functions and operators. These expressions can be used to calculate unbound field values.

Examples: Unbound Columns | Help Topic: Unbound Columns | Help Topic: Expression Editor | Demo: Unbound Columns

Delivering outstanding performance and creating a visually stunning UI are two key elements of all Silverlight applications. DevExpress offers multiple options for optimized record scrolling within grid controls – each designed for specific use cases.

Examples: How to: Implement Custom Scroll Animation for Per-Pixel Scrolling | Help Topic: Per-Pixel Vertical Scrolling | Help Topic: Cascading Data Updates | Demo: Vertical Scrolling Options

The DevExpress Silverlight Grid Control provides enhanced design-time support within the Visual Studio 2010 IDE and Expression Blend. An easy-to-use design time wizard allows you to bind the Silverlight Grid Control to different ItemsSource types and specify the desired data binding options.

Help Topic: Design-Time Enhancements