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What is a Control Renderer? In the old days, controls had Font , ForeColor , and BackColor properties and that was enough to customize their appearance. When they were disabled they simply turned gray and everyone was happy. Developers did not have to worry too much about the appearance of their applications...

This blog article details how you can use ComponentOne Studio for WinForms to display and edit HTML content inside a bound datagrid. To achieve this functionality we will use 3 controls: C1FlexGrid , C1Editor and C1SuperLabel . The C1FlexGrid control is a flexible datagrid which will allow us to easily...

Print your datagrids quickly and effortlessly with the famous ComponentOne FlexGrid . Just call the PrintGrid method from your code. This method includes parameters for optionally displaying a print preview dialog using the standard humdrum PrintPreviewControl . c1FlexGrid1.PrintGrid( "MyDocument"...

In the 2010 v2 release we've really added a little something for everyone. We've added enhancements to 13 different controls including new ways to work with images in C1Ribbon and C1InputPanel , new Office 2010 Visual Styles in Menus & Toolbars and even new interactive features in C1Gauge...

There are many scenarios where we have fields containing nicely formatted lists (i.e. "item1, item2, item3" or "item1;item2;item3") and we'd like to provide users with an easy, error-proof way of editing these fields. The obvious solution is to use the CheckedListBox control provided...

Webcast video See how ComponentOne puts the "Win" in WinForms. In this webcast we demonstrate how easy it is to create advanced Winforms applications using advanced controls. We take a deeper look at many controls including C1InputPanel, C1TrueDBGrid, C1Scheduler, C1DynamicHelp, and C1DockingTab...

This brief post shows how to create a ListBox type control which mimics the one used in Microsoft Access. To create this we will use the ComponentOne FlexGrid control. Its flexible, unbound framework allows us to easily manipulate a grid of data however we want. We put the FlexGrid inside a C1NavBar...

Deep in the ComponentOne Laboratories, our developers have been envisioning new and improved ideas to enhance our current controls. This is no different with ComponentOne Print Preview for WinForms. A major enhancement has been made to Print Preview for WinForms: forms can now be exported to PDF Acroforms...

What is a Ribbon? A Ribbon, in computing terms, is a tabbed interface of buttons and controls which replace traditional menus and toolbars at the top of a window. The Microsoft Ribbon interface was first introduced in the Office 2007 applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Benefits of using...

This article contains a brief introduction to the C1Editor control added to the ComponentOne Studio Enterprise in the 2009 v3 release. The C1Editor is a WinForms rich text editor. Compared to the RichTextBox that ships with Visual Studio, the C1Editor has the following advantages: C1Editor uses XHTML...

New in 2010, ComponentOne Gauges for WinForms provides the flexibility to create simple, practical gauges that get the job done while also supplying all of the advanced features to create the most eye-catching, sophisticated and professional looking gauges imaginable. The first release is feature-packed...

In 2010 v1, ComponentOne added preliminary support for the Microsoft Reporting Services (RDL) to the C1PrintDocument component. Now it's so easy to display your RDL reports in your WinForms applications and get all of the extra features that come with ComponentOne Reports for WinForms , as well as...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is coming soon and developers are starting to adopt this new environment. There were many changes to Visual Studio 2010 that required changes to add-ons and components that you used in Visual Studio 2008. With the first Studio Enterprise 2010 release, ComponentOne has added...

Part 6 Overview In this final part of the "Become an Expert" series, we complete the Sales Management Application further by making it more user friendly. Up to this point we have used various controls from ComponentOne Studio for WinForms such as C1FlexGrid , C1Chart , C1Report and others...

Part 5 Overview This is the fifth part in the six-part "Become an Expert" series. In this part we will add a report generation feature to the Sales Management Application. This feature will be implemented simply by using the C1Report control, which is part of ComponentOne Studio for WinForms...

One of the unique and popular features of the C1FlexGrid control is the ability to add hierarchical grouping to regular unstructured data. To achieve this, the C1FlexGrid introduces the concept of Node rows. Node rows do not contain regular data. Instead, they act as headers under which similar data...

Part 4 Overview In this series, we will create a Sales Management application to show how easily anyone can "Become an Expert". Up to this point, we have created a sales data list using C1FlexGrid (part of ComponentOne Studio for WinForms), as well as added exporting options including Excel...

Part 3 Overview In this series, we will use controls from ComponentOne Studio for WinForms to create a Sales Management application and show how easily anyone can "Become an Expert". Keep in mind that up until now* we have created a table to display sales data, implemented features to add/delete...

Part 2 Overview Microsoft Visual Studio contains a number of standard controls. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise provides easy-to-use controls with enhanced features which can be used in Visual Studio along with standard controls. In this series, we make use of these controls to create a Sales Management...

Introduction Visual Studio provides a number of standard controls, but every so often you may wish you could do something more. Most of us developers are aware that trying something complicated with standard controls means a lot of time will be spent on coding. ComponentOne Studio for WinForms (hereafter...