Testimonials

"[...] In general, we are dropping 3rd party components that are not critical to our application. For example, we have been using [...] and [...] but have had occasional licensing and other errors with those as well. And since they don't provide any absolutely necessary functionality we will make do with the simpler toolbar and grid provided in Visual Studio. Your Smart PropertyGrid, on the other hand, provides functionality that we couldn't do without. [...]"

Robert Inch at Schoolhouse Technologies

Partners

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.

Smart PropertyGrid.MFC

Label icons

Putting some icons at the left side of a category label really adds a professional touch to your PropertyGrid. This is really easy: just supply an image list, assign an image index to each or some categories and that's it.

This is also possible to add an icon for a property. The way to do it is different tough. In the following sample, I used a derived class of a drawing manager to shift the label and paste the icon (here the drawing manager is also putting a gradient on duplicate hotkeys, but this is another story):

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