| 28 May 2010
With the PureComponents LightGrid (DataGridView) control, you can display and edit tabular data from many different kinds of data sources. It supports styles for all the parts including columns, rows and individual cells. LightGrid (DataGridView) cells can contain images, flags, markers and progress bar. Cells support formatting and can be edited as different data types including date picker for dates and check boxes for boolean values. The component supports sorting and filtering as well.
LightGrid is part of EntrySet Components and .NET WinForms Suite
LightGrid Anatomy
Grid Header, 
Column Header, 
Fixed Columns, 
Filters and Sorting
Row Header, 
Cell, 
FxRow
Fixed Columns
When there is a higher number of columns it may be very helpful to fix some identifying data to be displayed all the time as you scroll across the columns. LightGrid supports this through the FixedColumns property where the number of still columns can be set.
Filters and Sorting
LightGrid supports data filtering and sorting. This you can achieve by clicking the dropdown inside the Column Header. If not necessery, sorting can be disabled with AllowSorting property and the arrow hidden with ShowFilterUpDown property. After clicking the dropdown the following popup menu is displayed:
Mark
Marks are graphical marks, which can be displayed at the right side inside the cell. Mark may have the appearance of upper corner, lower corner or strip. You may choose its color. It can be used to mark the particular entry fields. If you want you can add a note to the mark, which would appear as a tooltip when the user points the mouse on a mark.
Cell Highlight
Cell Highlight is a feature allowing to effectively emphasize the cell. It is turned on with the Cell.Highlight.Visible property. You can define the Color, Shape and Transparency of highlighting. Each cell can have its own Highlighting style independent on other cells.
Cell Flag
Each LightGrid (DataGridView) cell can be marked with a simple graphic sign - the Flag. Each flag can have its Color and Shape defined. The options for the shape are Flag, Exclamation, Point, Diamond, Arrow, ArrowUp, ArrowDown and Custom. The flag can be aligned to both left and right side of cell.
Progress Bar
The cell can contain the Progress Bar. It can have the value range set through ProgressBarMin and ProgressBarMax properties. The Progress Bar appearance can be defined either on the column or on the individual cell.
The LightGrid is part of .NET WinForms Suite.
Download trial version here or purchase full version here.
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