Features of PropertyGrid Control

KetticPropertyGrid Control for Windows Forms is capable of organizing and rendering data information on screen efficiently. This PropertyGrid control is fully optimized for user interface flexibility, which allows developers display the properties of any object in a user-friendly way. The PropertyGrid control includes various features to manage the properties and settings intensively, such as filtering, grouping and sorting items by the end users of your application.

KetticPropertyGrid WinForms control allows the users to add filtering functionality either via text box of the toolbar or populating the FilterDescriptors collection of KetticPropertyGrid using C# code. To filtering in text box using toolbar, we must enable the toolbar by changing the ToolBarxVisible to true, type a string into the text box, and then perform searching.

KetticPropertyGrid provides predefined grouping capability to group properties in property grid. The end users are able to call the predefined grouping through clicking the group button in the tool bar or changing the PropertuSort property to Categorized or CategorizedAlphabetical using C# code. The Categorized setting will group the properties based on the Category attribute and display the properties as enlisted in the object. And the CategorizedAlphabetical setting will group the properties based on the Category attribute and display the properties in alphabetical.

KetticPropertyGrid control provides sorting capabilities to sort items in .NET Windows applications. It is easy to add the sorting functionality to the PropertyGrid control. There are two approaches available to this. One is to apply the sorting options predefined in the PropertySort property with the SortOrder property. The other one is to apply custom sorting through adding a predefined SortDescriptor to KetticPropertyGrid SortDescriptors collection.

KetticPropertyGrid WinForms control allows the users to add help bar to the property grid in their applications. The help bar is able to read and display the name and content of the property Description attribute. To enable the help bar in PropertyGrid control, we must change the value of the HelpVisible to true.

KetticPropertyGrid WinForms control allows the users to add a toolbar with out of the box functionality and then display the tool bar on the top of the PropertyGrid control. With the predefined functions in the toolbar, we are able to sort items, group items, as well as filter the items by entering a string into the text box. To enable the toolbar in PropertyGrid control, we need to change the value of the ToolBarVisible property to true.