Visual WebGui News & Announcements

In the past few months the Visual WebGui core team has been intensively working on upgrading the overall out-of-the-box capabilities of Visual WebGui by extending and adding controls and features within the system. A version incorporating all the new capabilities and features is expected to be released before the end of the year.

The following list includes some of the major extensions and enhancements:

New Strip Controls

• ContextStrip
• MenuStrip
• ToolStrip
• StatusStrip

RibbonBar

• Add a ToolStrip to the RibbonBar control.
• Allow the ToolStrip to be shown either above (default) or below the RibbonBar.
• Allow the RibbonBarPage (content) to be minimized.
• Add a round button to the top left corner of the RibbonBar.
• Clicking on the RibbonBar round Button a Form will show, while not hiding the Button.
• Change the RibbonBarGroups background on mouse over.
• Allow RibbonBarButtons to be of three size modes Small/Medium/Large without requiring to place the button in a stack item.

New Containers

• Panels can be docked at run-time to all directions inside a container and either pinned or auto-hidden. They can also contain other such dockable panels.
• New ExpandableGroupBox – Clicking on the header hides and shows the content pane.
• TabControl headers could be shown below the contents instead of above.

DataGridView

• Can group by column. Dragging a column header or more at run-time to a designated pane at the top of the grid will group the table by that column.
• Introduced table filtering on the column level, based on the value type of the column.
• New hierarchical grid. Will be able to display a table as it relates to a field on a row on the grid, below that row as part of the overall view.
• Run-time ability to select what columns will be displayed, by clicking on the related button and selecting the columns from the dialog.
• Column auto-fit layouts introduced.
• Multi cell selection modes introduced.
• Cell click action options introduced.
• Introduced the ability to determine if and how row expansion indicators are shown.
• New cell border styles introduced.
• New row border styles introduced.
• Allow the hierarchical grid to be virtualized
• Vertical scroll bound options introduced.
• Add a property that determines if when resizing a row all other rows will be resized to that new height.
• ToolTip shows the full column header text when column is too small to show all the header text.
• Double click on column separator will expand the column to content's size.

ComboBox

• Added a property to set the character casing of the inputted text.
• Sorting options introduced.
• Shows an overflow indicator and tooltip when closed and contained text is longer than can be shown in control's width.
• Allows setting the default value that is shown when there are no items.

PropertyGrid

• Property filtering at run-time introduced.

RadioButton

• Added a Button view.