What's New for Essential Studio 2010 Volume 2
Excel-Like Fill SeriesThe Excel like fill series feature of GridControl has been extended to provide support for copying series, date with format (mm/dd/yyyy), and month names on text, which can directly fill the series of cell. The extended menu with menu items as 'Copy Series' and 'Fill Series' has been added to display, while dragging the cell. The copy series will copy the values to the other cell, where as the Fill series will fill the cells with the corresponding sequence.
Office 2007 Style FilterThe Grid can be applied with a filter just like the filter bar in Microsoft Excel 2007, which displays the value in the filter drop down in tree structure with checkbox for each value. The check box of the value is to specify on which values the grid has to be filtered, and also it supports on multiple selection. Dynamic filtering can also be achieved in the same filter using Text Filter field in the container.
Optimized Filtering in GridGroupingControlThe Filtering operation in grid can be optimized, so that its performance on the large data increases. The optimization will help you to reduce the usage of the process with high performance and refreshing of the table. The Optimization can be enabled by setting the OptimizeFilterPerformance property of GridGroupingControl as true.
Grouping Performance with IList DataSourceThe Grouping of the columns from a GridGroupingControl which has been bound to an IList data source, has been improved in optimization. Huge data's from the Ilist refresh the page with high performance while grouping a column. The Optimization of grouping can be enabled by setting the OptimizeIListGrouping property to true.
TileImage layout in GridControlEssential Grid now supports TileImage Layout for BackgroundImageLayout setting.
Multiple records selected in GridGroupingControlEssential Grid now provides support for selecting multiple records through calling single method passing the range to select as argument.
Multiple records deletion in GridGroupingControlEssential Grid now provides support for deleting multiple records through calling single method passing the range to delete as argument.
Saved CompareOperator States restored in GridDyanamicFilterEssential Grid now provides support to save the compareoperator states set at runtime in Dyanamic filter in GridGroupingControl and restore it when reloaded.
Filtering only on losing focus in GridDynamicFilterEssential Grid now provides support to control the filtering in GridDynamicFilter through a property, ApplyFilterOnlyOnCellLostFocus enabling which allows to filter only when the filter cell loses focus.
Balloon StyleThe SuperToolTipStyle enumeration contains the values Balloon and Normal. When the style is set to Balloon, the SuperToolTip will have a balloon-like appearance.
SuperToolTip Displaying HTMLWhen the RenderHtml property is set to true, text given in the Text property will be treated as an HTML string and displayed as HTML.
Glassy Appearance when Hovering Over Inactive Tab TabControlAdv’s tab and scroll button style can be changed to have a VS 2010 look and feel.
SuperToolTip Displayed in a MFC DialogA SuperToolTip can be displayed in a user control embedded in the MFC dialog.
Header Column with a Changed Highlight Border ColorThe highlight color of a column header border can be changed by using the HighlightBorderColor property.
ChangeImage in Customization Pop-up MenuWhen a bar item is right-clicked during run-time customization, the Customizing pop-up menu appears, allowing a bar item’s image to be changed by selecting the Change Image option.
Schedule Control with spanned label at topIn WorkWeekView, a functionality has been modified in such a way allowing to perform selection even horizontally, spanning multiple dates and add AllDayItem for those dates and display the spanned label at top of the schedule grid similar to the behavior as MS Outlook does.
Customizable Find DialogEssential Edit now allows the users to create a new find dialog by inheriting Essential Edit’s find dialog. Users can now customize the Find Dialog by changing the properties and triggers the events of the buttons such as Find, Mark All and Close. Users can now easily localize the Find dialog.Essential Edit now allows the users to create a new find dialog by inheriting Essential Edit’s find dialog. Users can now customize the Find Dialog by changing the properties and triggers the events of the buttons such as Find, Mark All and Close. Users can now easily localize the Find dialog.
Enhanced Find DialogEssential Edit control now supports displaying the message box when find reached the starting point of the search. If search option is “Current Selection”, once the find reached the starting point, it displays the message box for alert then selection area will be selected automatically as like VS editor