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What’s New in 2018 Volume 2: Windows Forms Controls

We are pleased to announce new controls and features for Windows Forms released in the 2018 Volume 2. New combo box and list view controls have been added to the Windows Forms family, and the new data grid component is moved from preview to final. Let’s look at a brief overview of the new controls and features.

New combo box control

The new combo box control provides support for editing, autocompletion, multiselection, and filtering features. It ships with built-in themes and support for complete UI customization.

combobox_multiSlection

New list view control

We developed a new lightweight list view control to help provide unmatched performance and its already used for our new combo box, and advanced filtering options for our new data grid component. The list view provides support for sorting, grouping, filtering, and complete UI customization along with built-in themes.
listview2

New data grid (final!)

With the 2018 Volume 2 release, the new Windows Forms data grid component is marked as final. Features include:
  • Master-details view to display nested tables.
  • Built-in busy indicators for long-running data operations when working with millions of records.
  • Cell merging support.
  • Font orientation support.
  • Office 2016 themes: white, black, grey, and colorful.
  • New combo box column type and multiselect filter row editor.
  • Further performance improvements in advanced filter UI and summary calculation.
You can find more details about all the features on this blog post.

Ribbon

Office 2016-style visual improvements

Our Windows Forms ribbon component already supports Office 2016 themes, so for this release we added Office 2016-style enhancements. Added features include:
  • Tab scrolling when there are more headers than space available.
  • Improved alignments and spacing for all the elements of ribbon tabs.
  • Support for adding ribbon backstage commands in the quick access toolbar (QAT).
  • Support for hiding the application icon.
  • Ribbon customization and quick access toolbar windows combined into single dialog similar to Office ribbons.

Calendar

UI customization improvements

The calendar control already provides support for customizing date cells. Now, the cells in year, decade, and century views can also be customized. Additionally, built-in tool tip and Office 2016 theme support has been added.
viewcustomization

Docking manager

Tab customization

The tab header appearance can be customized to various states via direct properties.
dockingmanager1

Syntax Editor

IntelliSence improvements

The IntelliSense pop-up appearance and end-user experience has been improved to be similar to the IntelliSense experience provided in Visual Studio. Office 2016 theme support has also been provided.
Intellisense

Multicolumn TreeView

Column autofit support

With the 2018 Volume 2 release, the column width of the multicolumn tree view control can be sized to fit its content. Support has also been provided for setting minimum and maximum widths.
MultiColumnTreeview Image (003)

Pivot Grid

Serialization and de-serialization

The pivot gird control provides support to serialize and de-serialize user settings with various customization options. You can find more details along with code samples on this blog post.
In addition to these new controls and features, we have included other minor improvements and bug fixes that you can check in the release notes. We hope that you will like these new features and we look forward to you to try them out in the 2018 Volume 2 release. You can find the 2018 Volume 2 Windows Forms install download link here. Please feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section below.

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