"We tried VisualHint because we wanted a feature-rich custom property grid, and it has indeed met our expectations. What surprised us was the speed and reliability of support, which is terrific. VisualHint was a great choice for us!"
Meera Subbarao at DataSource
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VisualHint and Skybound have reached agreement on a technical partnership where both companies can share their expertise and code. The first impact for Smart PropertyGrid.Net is to allow better XP theme rendering for .Net 1.1 and 2.0 as well as the support of their incredible VisualTips which represent a must-have feature along value validation. Check Skybound products! They can be used for free or based on a premium subscription.
These 2 editors in SFPE.Net can now display a new field for frames per second. The maximum number of frames per second can be chosen in the format string. Here is a screenshot to show you an example:
As promised last week, here is a screencast showcasing the features of the new TimeSpan editor, a new creation based on the Smart FieldPackEditor.Net:
It seems there is no TimeSpan editor for .Net. Can you believe it? So when a customer asked me if it was possible to make one with Smart FieldPackEditor.Net, I realized I could fill a gap with a full featured duration editor, based on the flexibility of SFPE. And this is what is coming in version 1.2.
If you skin your application with famous themes like Office 2007 (blue, black, silver), Office 2003 or Vista, you will be happy to know that SPG.Net now offers these themes too. Here is a (resized) screenshot:
A visitor who wanted to evaluate SPG asked me this question the other day: “I want to build a view to compare two objects visually. I want to display two property grids, one for each object. But these grids must be visually sync’ed. If user expands or collapses one property or category, other grid must do the same. If user scrolls, other must scroll too. It is possible with your component?”. The answer is yes with SPG 3.0.1 and I have made a screencast to show you the result:
As promised, here is a screencast demonstrating the various ways to attach and show an icon with a property value.
Now that SFPE 1.1 has been released, better than a thousand words, here is a short screencast to showcase its new features:
Here is a new screencast showcasing these two new features. Now, SPG has nothing to envy to the Microsoft PropertyGrid anymore.
I am proud to unveil today the first beta release of Smart PropertyGrid.Net 3.0 (you can access it from the usual downloads page). This release is impressive by the number of improvements and changes and I will give you here the main details:
I know, VisualHint’s blog has been quiet for some time now, simply because internal activity has increased and the next version of SPG and SFPE are in the starting blocks. In the next days/weeks, you will see again that a lot is actually happening under the hood. Here are the next events at VisualHint: