OBSOLETE - How to: Customize a Window Caption and Status Messages
This example is now obsolete. The most up-to-date approach is available in the How to: Customize a Window Caption and How to: Customize Window Status Messages help topics.See also:How to add items with...
View ArticleHow to use Criteria Property Editors
This example illustrates the specifics of using Criteria Property Editors in an XAF application. The complete description is available in the How to: Use Criteria Property Editors help topic.Note: In...
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How to customize the underlying database provider options and data access...
IMPORTANT NOTEThis article describes some advanced customization techniques and low-level entities of the framework with regard to data access, which may be required in complex scenarios only.So, if...
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How to customize resource headers to display custom text and images
To display an image or text in the resource header, create a custom template and assign it to the ViewBase.ResourceHeaderContentTemplate property. The ResourceItem object has no property that contains...
View ArticleHow to open Excel files in GridControl
Our GridControl, as well as any standard control, does not directly work with physical files. There are many reasons for this. For example, it is not possible to get notifications when some part of a...
View ArticleHow to handle a double-click on a grid row or cell
This example demonstrates how to handle a double-click on a grid row or cell. Since GridControl can be in one of two states - editable or non editable, it is necessary to use different approaches for...
View ArticleHow to create edit form templates dynamically
This example illustrates how to add editors within EditFormTemplateContainer of ASPxGridView programmatically by implementing the ITemplate interface. Custom editors are added onto the edit form by...
View ArticleHow to dynamically send a report via e-mail as a PDF
This example illustrates how to automatically send a report via e-mail. To do this, a report should first be exported into one of the available formats. In this example, a report is exported to PDF,...
View ArticleHow to bind GridControl to a collection of Business Objects
This example binds a GridControl to a collection of custom Record objects and demonstrates the following features:- Assigning an inplace editor (combo box) to a column- Specifying a column's display...
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How to create and populate an unbound column
GridView does not cache values of an unbound column, because it is impossible to determine when the cache should be cleared automatically. GridView just displays values provided by the...
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How to set the cell color using different approaches
This example illustrates approaches to set the color of a time cell in a scheduler grouped by resource.1. Each resource can have its own color specified by the ResourceItem.Color property. Uncomment...
View ArticleTreeList - How to implement node reordering
Currently, the TreeList extension only allows node insertion (a modification of the current node's parent node). This example demonstrates how to implement node reordering and also provides the...
View ArticleHow to make a grid have no focused row
This example demonstrates how to setup a grid so that it initially doesn't have a focused row. The focused row becomes highlighted once you click any.If you want not to highlight the focused row at...
View ArticleASPxTreeList - How to implement node reordering
Currently, the ASPxTreeList control only allows node insertion (a modification of the current node's parent node). This example demonstrates how to implement node reordering and also provides the...
View ArticleHow to show files preview as a thumbnail in ASPxFileManager
This example is a simplified implementation of the DXDocs demo that illustrates how to create a file thumbnail based on the first page of the document. The ASPxFileManager.CustomThumbnail event is used...
View ArticleHow to add wait indicator to your application
To control the WaitIndicator control's visibility, use the DeferedVisibility property. As for changing WaitIndicator's properties, it is a common WPF control and you can change its properties in code...
View ArticleHow to bind an ASP.NET MVC GridView extension to a table with an unknown...
Disclaimer:This example demonstrates an edge-case scenario and uses XPO in an uncommon way. Refer to the following articles for XPO best practices:How to use XPO in an ASP.NET (Web) applicationHow to...
View ArticleHow to bind dictionaries to the Spell Checker in MVVM applications
The following code sample shows how to use the SpellingSettings.DictionarySourceCollection property to bind dictionaries generated at runtime to the SpellCheker. In this example, the DXSpellChecker...
View ArticleBootstrap Controls for ASP.NET Web Forms - How to implement a responsive side...
This example shows how to implement a simplified version of the responsive side bar from our online Bootstrap demos.The required layout is implemented in the following files:1. "Shared/Site.master"This...
View ArticleHow to update the parameter value when the item's master filter state is changed
This example illustrates how to pass filter values to a parameter. The initial master filter state is set manually on page loading.To obtain changed master filter values, handle the...
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