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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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),...

In this series, we will make use of controls from ComponentOne Studio for WinForms to create a Sales Management application and to show how easily anyone can "Become an Expert". In Part 3 we will use the C1Ribbon control (part of Studio for WinForms) to change the look and feel of the application. We will also use C1PdfDocument to export a report to a PDF file, and we'll add Excel export options too using C1FlexGrid.

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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...

Microsoft Visual Studio contains a number of standard controls. ComponentOne Studio 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 Application. In the first volume of this series, we create a table to display sales data using C1FlexGrid (a control in ComponentOne Studio for WinForms) as the base.

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This blog post details a solution to the common problem of dynamically setting connection strings. The approach used allows end-users to change database connections at runtime through a friendly user interface, and save the connection for future uses. Provided with this post is source code for the Connection Wizard form which accesses all Sql servers and databases on a computer and its networks, builds a connection string based upon user selection, and also saves the connection string to an xml file in local data storage....

If you convert an existing project or solution to Visual Studio 2010 beta there should be no problem. But if you are creating new projects within VS2010 beta there are a couple things you need to know when using ComponentOne WinForms or WPF controls.

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This article demonstrates a play-by-play comparison of creating and maintaining the exact same data-entry form using standard Visual Studio controls versus using ComponentOne InputPanel. ComponentOne InputPanel for WinForms enables you to create data-entry forms quickly and efficiently. The control reduces the time it takes to create and maintain data-entry forms by removing all redundant tasks such as input control alignment, spacing, data-binding, labeling, accelerator key generation and tab ordering....

This article demonstrates the C1FlexGrid PrintDocumentGridRenderer class. This class is included in the C1FlexGrid assembly and provides methods for rendering scaled parts of the grid into the pages of regular PrintDocument objects. Using this approach, you have total control over the document. You could, for example, create several PrintDocumentGridRenderer objects and use them to render several grids into the same document, use a custom print preview dialog, and more. ...