We’ve received some great WinForms support questions this month and want to share our favorites with you. Please take a moment to review the following tickets and tell us whether these solutions (or peer suggestions) are something you’ll implement in an upcoming WinForms app.
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How to customize our WinForms Ribbon control’s Search Menu item (yes, this is a new feature - v19.1) and catch Enter key presses.
Ticket ID:T800370 -
How to display text within WinForms Grid cells while in display mode and checkboxes while in edit mode.
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Ticket ID:T759268 -
How to display an image below text content within WinForms Grid cells (using RepositoryItemHypertextLabel).
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Ticket ID:T759033 -
Common usage scenario: Form size change when loading PresentationCore DLL in an MVVM application.
Ticket ID:T800072 -
How to customize the layout and add new controls to our XtraDialog (and display it as a custom MessageBox).
Ticket ID:T800075 -
How to edit controls hosted in LayoutControlItems at runtime.
Ticket ID:T753577 -
How to customize our WinForms Ribbon control for MVVM WindowedDocumentManagerService, RibbonFormService. You can follow this approach to customize any other WindowedDocumentManagerService container (e.g., the RibbonForm).
Ticket ID:T752295 -
How to draw a custom Line and align it to the beginning of our WinForms Chart control’s diagram area (using built-in API).
Ticket ID:T757396 -
What's the difference between XtraReport.Print and ReportPrintTool.Print methods.
Ticket ID:T755391 -
Query Builder: Unicode characters are not displayed in data column captions.
Ticket ID:T750829 -
How to disable our WinForms Report format converter dialog (data bindings to expression bindings).
Ticket ID:T754776 -
How to change the appearance of a selected control in the End-User Report Designer.
Ticket ID:T800652
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