TreeList UI/UX Customization

Easy-to-use and highly customizable tree view.

With our WinForms TreeList control, you'll deliver runtime experiences that empower end-users. The TreeList control offers a nearly endless array of UI customization features - so you can build fully customizable and personalized interfaces.

Tree List UI/UX customization options available to you and your users include:

  • Auto-Node Height
  • Node Drag & Drop
  • Node & Cell Selection
  • Customizable Previews
  • Unbound Columns
  • Pinned Columns & Bands
  • Scrollbar Annotations
  • Breadcrumb Navigation
  • Limitless Column Customization (move, show, hide, resize, etc.)
  • Comprehensive Custom Draw API / Paint any UI element manually
  • Save/Restore Layouts, and many many more...
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Shape and Manipulate Data

A broad range of data shaping options inside.

Unleash the power of information and intuitively present it to your end-users. Our WinForms Tree List control ships with dozens of data shaping and data analysis options, including:

  • High-speed Multi-Column TreeView Sorting
  • Summaries & Data Aggregates
  • Instant Search & Incremental Search
  • Query Builder / Filter Criteria Editor
  • Excel Inspired Filtering
  • Auto Filter Row & Custom Filter UI
  • Filter Panel & Most Recently Used (MRU) Filters

With our comprehensive Tree List API, you are always in control. Yes, you can implement custom algorithms to sort, filter, and aggregate data as needed - in the blink-of-an-eye.

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Excel-inspired Conditional Formatting

Deliver an experience familiar to everyone.

With our WinForms Conditional Formatting engine, your app can easily highlight cells or nodes based on specified criteria without writing a single line of code. Cells and nodes can be highlighted using animated data bars, icons, and predefined color scales. Users can easily apply/customize style conditions via the tree list's popup menu.

And of course, you can take advantage of predefined format rules or create custom rules as needed. The TreeList ships with both a design-time and runtime Conditional Formatting Rule Editor - so you and your users can create, edit, and delete format rules as and when needed.

I tried DevExpress controls and I haven't looked back since. The features available are mind-boggling. Alphonse Giambrone / ADH Data Solutions, LLC
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Data Binding

All major data sources are fully supported.

Our WinForms Tree List component was engineered to deliver the fastest possible performance regardless of dataset size and information complexity. From traditional data sources (DataView, DataTable, BindingList<T>) and any data object implementing IList, ITypedList, and IBindingList interfaces to SQL, Excel, and MongoDB data sources (and everything in between) the TreeList control can consume data from any source.

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WinForms Tree View

Tree navigation made easy.

You can easily configure our TreeList control to mimic the standard Microsoft TreeView to display and navigate directory trees of file systems, hierarhical lists or nested relationships. Node icons can be used to add clarification about tree view items.

The Tree View can be paired with our WinForms Breadcrumb control which automatically syncs its selection with the Tree View and vice versa.

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WinForms Themes and Application Skins

Over 50 Custom Themes Designed to Amaze

You can specify a theme when you ship your app or allow end-user to modify the look and feel of your WinForms application on the fly. And yes, you can even customize our pre-built application skins/themes with the free DevExpress WinForms Skin‑Theme Editor. The following are a few of the skins/themes included in our distribution.

Basic Vector Skin - Pine Light Palette | DevExpress

Basic Vector

Pine Light Palette

Office 2019 Colorful Skin - Default Palette | DevExpress

Office 2019 Colorful

Default Palette

WXI - Calmness Palette | DevExpress

WXI

Calmness Palette

Office 2019 Black Skin - Forest Palette | DevExpress

Office 2019 Black

Forest Palette

Excel Data Export

Reporting made easy. Export to Excel, Word, PDF.

Use our high performance Excel Data Export Engine to exchange data between your app and Microsoft Excel. Node state, sorting/filtering, totals/summaries, format rules, and fixed column settings are retained during the export process.

You can also render TreeList content to paper just like a traditional WYSIWYG report or export data to numerous file formats. With its comprehensive API, you can save your data as PDF, XLS, XLSX, MHT, CSV, HTML, RTF, DOCX, TXT or as an Image file.

A truly professional, fully-featured set of controls from people focused on continual development. As developers, we can't ask for anything more. Keep up the awesome work. Nigel Bogle / CEO - Software Engineer
Excel Data Export - WinForms TreeList | DevExpress

TreeList Data Editing

CRUD operations made easy.

From revolutionary WinForms TextBox controls and Date Pickers to our Rich Text Editor and powerful Data Lookups, incorporate 20+ individual data editors within treelist cells with absolute ease. Leverage the power of our Data Editors to display and manipulate data on-screen and apply data validation and cell value formatting rules to maintain data consistency in your enterprise.

Advanced data editing features include:

  • New Item Row / Add New Records
  • Inline Data Editing
  • Edit Data in a Separate Form / Custom Edit Forms
  • Edit Masks / HTML Formatting
  • Input Validation & Error Indication
  • Copy/Paste Formatted Data (TXT, RTF, CSV, BIFF8, HTML, Unicode)

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Data Editing - WinForms TreeList | DevExpress

Node Drag and Drop

Rearrange the tree with drag and drop simplicity.

Users can drag and drop tree nodes to restructure the hierarchy. Multiple tree view nodes can be dragged and reordered simultaneously.

The Tree List control can also accept dropped items from outside the component (e.g., dropping a new file into a tree view to copy a file to a specific folder). With its comprehensive drag-and-drop API, you can easily accomplish additional customization when transferring data between components.

Drag-and-drop options include:

  • Copy / Move Nodes
  • Accept Outer Nodes
  • Drag Multiple Nodes
  • Expand Node on Drag
  • Drop as Sibling or Child Nodes

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Node Drag and Drop - WinForms TreeList | DevExpress

Design-Time Made Easy

A refined design-time experience.

Our WinForms TreeList includes integrated design-time tools to help reduce learning curves and increase overall productivity. These tools include built-in column customization via drag & drop, powerful Visual Studio IDE designer, node editor, and conditional format editor.

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DevExpress helped us to develop an enterprise-ready labour management solution with Winforms and ASP.NET modules. The DevExpress Support Team exhibits a high level of understanding and professionalism. We find that our queries are promptly responded to with helpful comments and solutions. Geoffrey Jones
Design Time - WinForms TreeList | DevExpress

TreeList Lookup

Blazing fast with amazing UI/UX options.

Our TreeList Lookup embeds the Tree List control to display information and allows users to select values from self-referenced data structures (hierarchical lists) with ease.

Our flexible data loading options allow you to display, edit, and shape data against hundreds of thousands of rows at incredibly fast speeds. This unmatched performance is achieved because our Windows Forms UI controls allow you to move time-intensive data shaping operations to the server when appropriate.

Learn more about our WinForms Data Lookups

WinForms TreeList Lookup | DevExpress

Getting Started with the WinForms TreeList

Watch this video and learn the basics on how to get started working with the TreeList control.

 

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Supported
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(for legacy apps)
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(for legacy apps)
Minor Updates
Yes
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No
Security Updates
Yes
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Supported Frameworks
.NET 6 / .NET 7 / .NET 8
.NET Framework 4.5.2+
.NET 6 / .NET 7
.NET Framework 4.5.2+
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.NET Core 3.0+
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Visual Studio 2019
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Visual Studio 2015
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