Version 1.3 - November 1, 2006

Release Notes

What's New

• Added ExportToTabDelimitedText, ExportToHtml, ExportToExcel methods to the grid GridControlBase class, which allow you to export data from the bound, unbound and virtual grid to a file or a stream in the following formats:
  • Tab-delimited text
  • HTML table
  • Microsoft Excel XML workbook
• Added an article on exporting data from the grid.
• Added an Export demo to the SimpleDemos sample.
• Added a set of classes and properties implementing the functionality of a header column: RowHeaderColumn, EnableRowHeaderFocusMarker and EnableRowHeaderCellEditingMarker properties of the GridControlBase class and RowHeaderCell, RowHeaderCellStyle, ColumnHeaderRowHeaderCell, ColumnHeaderRowHeaderCellStyle, RowHeaderColumn classes.
• Added a cell tooltip. You can turn on tooltips for cells by setting the GridControlBase.EnableCellExpandTip property to true. If you hover the mouse pointer over a cell whose text does not fit inside its area, a tooltip with the cell text shows up.
• Added a BoundGridControl.ExpandGroupRowsAfterGrouping flag indicating whether group rows should be expanded after being regrouped.
• Changed the signature of the BoundGridControl.EnsureVisibleVerticallyByDataSourceItem method, which now returns the Row object that has become visible.
• Added two BoundGridControl.StartCellEditByDataSourceItem overloaded methods, which allow you to start editing a cell by a given data source item.
• Added BoundGridControl.UseEnterToTraverseRows property indicating whether hitting the Enter key should set the focus to the cell in next row and the same column.
• Updated the documentation to reflect the changes made to the API.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the GridControlBase class when Tab strokes were not correctly processed when the UseTabToTraverseCells property was set to true.
• Fixed several bugs with scrolling, sorting and grouping.
• Fixed several bugs in sample applications.