Merged Cells Support in Telerik UI for WinForms GridView
With 2024 Q3 release, the Telerik UI for WinForms introduces support for merged cells in the GridView control. Consecutive / serial cells with equal values can be merged vertically or horizontally with this new enhancement.
You can easily edit the merged cells in two ways – edit only the current cell or edit all merged cells at once. When the merge cells functionality is enabled, the WinForms GridView control exposes a CellMerging event, triggered when two cells are going to be merged. Customizing the merged cells is also possible via the ViewCellFormatting event of the control allowing you to change the color of a merged cell for example.
Last mut not least, the Telerik UI for WinForms GridView merge cell capability enables you to define merge cell rules at column or template level.
Selecting or Deselecting Rows From Telerik UI for WinForms GridView With a Checkbox
Indicate whether a row is selected or not by displaying a checkbox for each item with the brand-new GridViewSelectColumn capability. Unlike other data column types, the GridViewSelectColumn inherits from GridViewColumn and does not bind to data. This new feature extends the users’ selection experience by allowing them to select or deselect rows from the grid by using a checkbox.
UI Automation or UI Accessibility Support in Telerik UI for WinForms NavigationView
With 2024 Q3 release, the Telerik UI for WinForms NavigationView supports UI automation also referred to as UI accessibility. The main goal of this new implementation is to ensure compliance with accessibility standards and to provide a common practice for automated testing.
PdfProcessing: With 2024 Q3, the PdfProcessing now support annotations of type StrikeOut, Stamp, Popup, Text and Highlight along with capability to handle documents with mismatched font Subtype and FontFile type.
SpreadProcessing: Support for SVG images is introduced with 2024 Q3 release as well as ability to handle importing and reading of cached formula value when the formula contains external references.
WordsProcessing: Support for SVG images is introduced with 2024 Q3 release as well as support for exporting text with a strikethrough to PDF.
More Features and Enhancements in Telerik UI for WinForms
Along with the Telerik UI for WinForms GridView and NavigationView improvements, the 2024 Q3 release also introduces a couple of other updates that would make your work with the desktop controls even better:
Windows 11 themes blending is added to the UI library.
Support for preserving and exporting the macros in a macro-enabled workbook is added to the Spreadsheet control.