Essential Grouping

Essential Grouping allows users to group data, access filtered results and have summary information without the overhead of graphical display code. The Grouping Engine extracts all the data manipulation, handles the data and gives users ways to access the needed results.

The Grouping Engine	UI Independent
How it works

Grouping in Essential Grid

Essential Grid extends Essential Grouping's Engine to implement GridGroupingControl. This control adds UI support to Grouping allowing users drag and drop columns to display grouping information in a grid.

Grouping Flat Tables	Grouping Hierarchical Tables
Multiple Nested Tables

Grouping in Essential Chart

Essential Chart uses Essential Grouping extensively to handle summarizing and grouping of data for chart displays.

Grouping and Aggregation

Filtering

Responsive to Data Changes

If a data source supports IBindingList/ListChanged events, then Essential Grouping listens to these events, responding appropriately. If the datasource does not support IBindingList, the Grouping Engine may refresh itself as appropriate.

Editing Items	Adding New Items
Deleting Items

Sorting

Essential Grouping supports multikey sorting without relying on ADO.NET. It will sort any IList data source.

Multikey sorting	Supports IComparer
Sorting Respects Groups

Filtering

Users may impose filters on data to easily access only items that meet the specified criteria.

Flexible Filtering

Filter Operations Supported

Summaries

Summaries allow users to easily see statistics on grouped data. Users may access information like the maximum value of columns in every group, or the sum of the items, median value, etc.

Summarize the Data

Supported Operations

Expressions

Expressions allow users to do record-oriented calculations, effectively adding a new value to the data collection calculated from the existing values.

Expressions

Extensible