WPF / .NET Technology

• Created entirely for WPF and .NET 3.0, written in C# and XAML. Supports .NET 3.5 as well.
• Complete source code is available in the Blueprint Edition. (Only available with the Professional Edition.)
• True lookless WPF control, 100% stylable and templatable. You can completely change the way the entire control looks and behaves. Create 3D rolodex, carousel, timeline views, etc.
• Supports UI virtualization, even when grouping data, so only elements currently in view are created and kept, meaning faster loading time, uses less memory.
• Design-time support in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend.
• Design-time configuration window that lets you set up the most important features quickly and easily.

Master/detail capabilities

• Provides hierarchical master/detail capabilities.
• Each datarow in the main grid or in a detail can have an unlimited number of details attached to it.
• Details can have “sibling” or “child” details, or both.
• Details support headers and footers, grouping, sorting, and autofiltering.
• Different style for the data items contained in each same-level detail.
• Custom grouping in grid and details supported.
• Custom detail relations supported.

Views and themes

• Presents data and lets users edit it in any 2D or 3D layout you can imagine.
• Ships with two 2D views (traditional table view and card view). Achieve the look of traditional XP or Vista applications with a true native WPF control.
• Ships with all Microsoft Windows themes: Classic (NT), Luna (XP), Aero (Vista), and Royale (Media Center).

Rich in-place editing

• Features rich in-place editing that works in all views.
• Provides configurable keyboard and mouse edit commands.
• Programmatic control over edit mode.
• Provides Excel-like default keyboard and mouse edit behavior, including F2, Esc (cancel edit on a cell and restore the original value), Double-Esc (cancel edit on the entire row and restore the original values), and Enter.
• Allows you to specify a different visual template for a cell being edited.
• Cell editors can be displayed without entering edit mode, under a variety of conditions such as a mouse hover over the cell or row, the cell or row becoming current, the row being edited, or always.

Data grouping

• Supports hierarchical, multi-level grouping in all views.
• Customizable group-level configurations with header and footer support.
• Supports UI virtualization, preserving memory and reducing load time, even when grouping.
• Supports custom grouping criteria, to allow your code to group together rows with your own conditions.
• Interactive, hierarchical “Group-by” row allows end-users to easily create and manipulate groups themselves. Adapted for all included views.
• Programmatic control over expanding and collapsing groups.
• Grouping can be controlled via code.

Input validation

• Includes built-in data validation, at the cell or row level.
• Error display is integrated with the included views.
• You can completely style the way a cell or row looks when a validation error occurs.
• Can validate on any criteria, including the values of other cells.
• Validation error messages are overridable and localizable.
• Expandable and compatible with custom validation rules you have already built.

Card view features

• Defaults to cards stacked into columns, with horizontal scrolling.
• Two types of card view styles are included: compact card view (borderless cards with column separator lines) and standard card view (cards with borders, but no separator lines).
• Supports grouping with multiple levels. Group-by row includes built-in list of columns, so end-users can still group by columns and reorder fields even if there are no column headers. Group headers flow within the card list.
• Cards can be independently sized, each card sizing itself to its content.

Table view features

• Includes an Outlook-style table view with all the typical elements you would expect.
• Column headers support drag-and-drop column reordering, column resizing, click-to-sort, and dragging to "Group-by" row.
• Row margin selects and resizes rows, and displays icons indicating that the row is current, is being edited, is an insertion, or has a validation error.
• Provides horizontal and vertical Grid line brush and grid line thickness properties.
• Automatically changes a row’s height to fit the contents of the largest cell.

Other features

• Full keyboard navigation is possible through cells and rows. Navigation can be limited to cell-only or row-only, or navigation can be disabled.
• Allows multiple-field sort and custom criteria sort.
• Provides easy manipulation of the grid’s current row.
• Scrolls the view to any cell, row, group, or column.
• Scroll tip displays information about the first visible row in the viewport when the grid is scrolled.