Design-Time Features

Our WPF Grid control provides enhanced design-time support within Visual Studio 2010 and Blend. Among these enhancements is the Quick Customization Panel that allows you to quickly access required objects, change view type, populate a view with columns and assign column data editors.

As demonstrated in the image above, you can now click column headers to access column settings. You can also resize and reorder columns, specify their sort order or move them to the Group Box panel to apply data grouping. This is all accomplished using the same mechanisms available to end-users at runtime.

Additional design-time capabilities include the following:

• Specifying the grid's filter using the Filter Editor
• Specifying a column's unbound expression using the Expression Editor
• Assigning a custom type as the grid control's design-time data source. The grid will determine columns types and will allow you to populate the view with all available columns. All appropriate entries will be listed in the FieldName property editor and correct data source information will be provided for the Filter Criteria Builder and Expression Editor dialogs.