Appearance Customization

The Grid Control can be painted using any of the DevExpress Application-Wide Skins or using the currently applied Windows Theme. The following skins are currently available for DevExpress WinForms controls:

Microsoft® Office® Style Skins

	Office 2010 Blue		Office 2010 Black		Office 2010 Silver
	Office 2007 Blue		Office 2007 Black		Office 2007 Silver
	Office 2007 Pink		Office 2007 Green

Windows® 7 Style Skins

Seven

Seven Classic

Visual Studio® Style Skins

VS 2010

Unique Skins Designed by DevExpress

	DevExpress		DevExpress Dark		Sharp
	Sharp+		Foggy		Darkroom
	High Contrast		Springtime		Pumpkin
	Summer		Xmas		McSkin
	Valentine		Dark Side		Caramel
	Lilian		Money Twins		iMaginary
	Black		Blue		Blueprint
	Whiteprint		The Asphalt World		Coffee
	Glass Oceans		Stardust		Liquid Sky
	London Liquid Sky

Color Management, Styles and Alpha Blending

The XtraGrid automatically adapts its colors to match all system-defined color schemes. This means that you don't have to do a single thing to your grid in order for it to automatically respond to color scheme or XP theme changes - thus bringing your end users ultimate visual consistency.

When necessary, you can change the appearance of each and every element within the grid control - you can apply gradient backgrounds with customizable directions, change font settings and text color, specify text alignment, as well as trimming and wrapping options. Just like other Developer Express controls, you have multiple methods to customize styles so you achieve your objectives in the shortest possible time. Thus, you can apply the same style for all column headers at once or specify the style for each column header individually - The same with band headers and card fields. You also have multiple cell style customization options - from specifying styles for odd and even rows to providing custom styles for cells within a particular column.

Conditional Formatting

Visually differentiating specific records or cells is a common approach utilized in numerous applications to improve the end-user experience and make information more understandable. With the XtraGrid, you have at your disposal a straightforward and highly flexible mechanism to control conditional cell and row formatting.

Custom Painting

The XtraGrid allows you to manually paint all its individual elements. With custom painting, the grid can be turned into anything - even a tetris game. And the XtraGrid ships with a demo application showing how this can be done.