Property Grid Control for Windows Forms

[Albert Milton]

Hi,

Do we have Property Grid Control for Windows Forms?

Thanks,
Albert

[Shinu]

Hello Albert,

I guess you are searching for RadGridView control. RadGridView is a grid component developed on top of Telerik Presentation Framework which provides a combination of performance, extensibility, customizability, and ease of use.

Rad GridView for WinForms

Checkout the links to know more about RadGridView for WinForms.

Overview

Getting Started

-Shinu.

[Albert Milton]

Hi,

Thanks for your update.

I'm looking for something like this as given below in Windows Forms...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302326.aspx

Thanks,
Albert

[Jack]

Hi Albert,

Currently RadGridView doesn't support property gird mode. However, we plan to implement this feature in one of our upcoming releases.

Please, could you share with us what exactly do you expect from a property grid control? What are the most useful properties for you? We will highly appreciate your feedback.

Sincerely yours,
Jack
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[Albert Milton]

Hi Jack,

Microsoft and any other tool implemented Property Grid through Reflection, it will be good if Telerik provides Property Grid as RAD tool with no much complex in configuring/coding the same. I'm looking for the Property layout which looks pretty for windows form and it will be good if we can dock in our controls in the property grid instead of just having the standard format. Just giving some inputs.

Thanks,
Albert

[Jack]

Hi Albert Milton,

Thank you for your feedback.

Yes, you have a point. Property grid controls are used widely in Windows Forms applications and that's why we decided to implement such control. We always try to be consistent with Microsoft API, and we plan to make no exception here. Stay tuned for the exact release date.

 

Greetings,
Jack
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[norma]

Quot.
"Please, could you share with us what exactly do you expect from a property grid control? What are the most useful properties for you? We will highly appreciate your feedback.

Sincerely yours,
Jack
the Telerik team "
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Hi Jack :)

well, i was also searching for a better looking property grid of WinForms
if i may,
i have some suggestions:

Styling:
1. Allow a full background configuring (images, color specifications using RGB etc) 
    for both 'frame of grid'  and grid separately (also menu strip)
2. Allow grid line styling 
    - alternating line colors (colorX, colorY, colorX, colorY and so on..) 
    - specifying a color for each line in grid separately (to allow some lines to stand out or to allow creating a sort of headline)
3. Allow rounded corners
4. Allow changing color and width of grid lines and borders

Functionality:
5. When using an array the property grid uses the index of the element array
    as the property name, so you see something like: [0], [1] etc.. 
    if you can - allow changing the name in the display
    (i tried using a dictionary<string,SomeObject> and hoped the string would appear as the name of the property 
    but this was not helpful..since using dictionary changes the whole outcome at the grid.. )
6. Allow users to choose not to display the type of an element System.Array[typeofElement].. at the value section of the property   
7. It is important to still have helpful featurs like events of element value changed on which one can dynamically
    add/remove elements of the propertyGrid, and refresh

o.k. thats it for now  :)
my knowledge of property grid's full capabilities is far from being good, since i was experimenting with it
for only about an hour - so i do apologize if my suggestions include some mistakes due to my lack of knowledge..
i attached a rough sketch hoping it might help clarify my thoughts

love your designs so far!
looking forward to see what kind of magic your team will do with this dull control :)

yours
normaJeans :)

[Jack]

Hi norma,

Thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate it and will take it in consideration when planning our property grid control.

Kind regards,
Jack
the Telerik team

[Jose Manuel]

Quot.
"Please, could you share with us what exactly do you expect from a property grid control? What are the most useful properties for you? We will highly appreciate your feedback.

Sincerely yours,
Jack
the Telerik team "

Hi,
Adding to Norma comments, could be interesting those features:

Provide classes to easyly implement different PropertyViewFormats, like password fields or RadForms UI: for example

<

 

Category("1-General")> _
<DisplayName("1.6 Password")> _
<Description("xxxxxxxx.")> _
// these attributes
<PropertyViewFormat(PropertyViewAttributeEnum.PropertyViewAttributes.PasswordField, "1-General")> _
<TypeConverter(GetType(PasswordStringConverter))> _
// -------------------
<Browsable(True)> _
Public Property Password() As String
Get
    Return m_password
End Get

 

 

 

Set(ByVal value As String)
    m_password = value
End Set

 

 

 

End Property

 

[Jack]

Hi Jose,

Thank you for this suggestion, it is really a nice feature and we will consider it. I updated your Telerik points accordingly. 

Should you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Regards,
Jack
the Telerik team

[Nikolay]

Hi Jose,

Have you heard the good news? A week ago we released RadControls for WinForms Q2 2011 and there we introduced the RadPropertyGrid for WinForms. Feel free to register for the Free Webinar for Desktop Developers that will take place on July 20.

Best wishes,
Nikolay
the Telerik team