Contact/Card View

The DevExpress WPF Grid Control can display data using a Microsoft Outlook style “Contacts” format. In this data layout, each data record is represented as a card.

Contact views are usually used for small datasets and thus they don't usually offer a lot of data shaping and analysis features found in tabular grid views. This is not the case with the DevExpress WPF DataGrid. Our Card view supports all data manipulation features introduced in table views, including unlimited data sorting and grouping, data filtering and totals calculations. It also support the same Column Chooser used for card content customization.

To allow end-users to perform all these data analysis and layout customization operations, our WPF Contacts View provides a specially designed customization dropdown. This dropdown displays "column headers" which allow you to exploit features similar to those found in a traditional Grid view. You can click these headers to sort data against corresponding fields, drag them to the Group By box or the Column Chooser window, etc.

The Contacts View supports numerous data management and layout customization features, including the following:

• Unlimited data sorting and grouping, programmatically and via its runtime UI.
• Data filtering, both programmatically and via its runtime UI.
• Totals and group summary calculation, both programmatically and via its runtime UI.
• Embedded cell editors from the DevExpress WPF Editors Library.
• Arranging cards across then down or down then across.
• Expandable cards.
• Automatically calculated card size.
• End-user card resizing.