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What’s New Essential Studio Windows Forms Edition 2012 Volume 4

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Contents Windows Forms ...................................................................................................................................................... 3

Essential Chart ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3

Changing Chart Axis Label Position ............................................................................................................................... 3

Essential Diagram ...................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Customizing Node Movement ........................................................................................................................................ 3

Interactive Zooming ............................................................................................................................................................ 4

Essential Grid .............................................................................................................................................................................. 6

Appearance Enhancements .............................................................................................................................................. 6

Field Chooser Dialog Events ............................................................................................................................................. 7

Sort Icon Placement ............................................................................................................................................................. 7

Support for BrowseOnly Property .................................................................................................................................. 8

Group Drop Area Hierarchy .............................................................................................................................................. 8

Enter Key Navigation ........................................................................................................................................................... 9

Dynamic Cell Merging ...................................................................................................................................................... 10

Essential BI PivotGrid ............................................................................................................................................................. 11

Word, Excel, and PDF Export .......................................................................................................................................... 11

Print Option .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Essential QTP Add-On ........................................................................................................................................................... 13

SwfConfig Utility ................................................................................................................................................................. 13

Essential Tools .......................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Windows 8-Style Tile Control......................................................................................................................................... 14

Clock Control ........................................................................................................................................................................ 15

Windows 8 Theme Support ............................................................................................................................................ 16

Essential PDF Viewer .............................................................................................................................................................. 16

Support for Hyperlinks ..................................................................................................................................................... 16

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Windows Forms Essential Chart

Changing Chart Axis Label Position Individual label positions can be customized in real time. Each axis label can be positioned to the right or left of a horizontal axis, or the top or bottom of a vertical axis. In the following image, if the export value is positive, the label is rendered on the right side of the axis. If the series value is negative, the label is rendered on the left side of the axis.

Custom Label Positions Based on Series Value

Essential Diagram

Customizing Node Movement Users can restrict the movement of diagram nodes by setting the NodeMovementX and NodeMovementY properties. The NodeMovementX property can be set to allow the node to

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move only horizontally when holding Alt, X, or Z and dragging the node. The NodeMovementY property can be set to Alt+Y, Alt+Z, Y, or Spacebar to allow a diagram node to move only vertically when the user holds the specified keys.

Another property implemented by this feature is the DirectionBehaviorEnabled property, which restricts node movement to only one direction at a time—the direction in which the node is initially dragged.

Interactive Zooming This feature enables users to zoom in and out of the diagram page interactively. Zooming can be controlled in different ways, depending on the setting of the ZoomType property. Available zoom options include:

• Zooming to the pointer position using the Ctrl key and mouse wheel. • Zooming to the center of the diagram. • Zooming to the top left of the diagram.

Original Diagram

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Mouse-based Zoom

Center-Based Zoom

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Top-Left Zoom

Essential Grid

Appearance Enhancements The Microsoft Blend color style is now available for grids. Other style enhancements include:

• Column header border themes. • Themes for the multicolumn sort icon. • New font styles. • Customizable row heights.

Blend Theme in a Grid

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Field Chooser Dialog Events The new FieldChooserShowing, FieldChooserShown, FieldChooserClosing, and FieldChooserClosed events can be used to perform operations in the Field Chooser dialog.

FieldChooserShowing: This event is handled before the Field Chooser dialog is displayed in a stacked header or column header. This event is generally used to change the caption in the dialog, and get and set the dialog in the TreeViewAdv or Grid controls. It can also be used to cancel displaying the Field Chooser dialog.

FieldChooserShown: This event is handled after the Field Chooser dialog is displayed. This event is generally used to get the caption for the Field Chooser dialog, and retrieve the TreeViewAdv or Grid controls.

FieldChooserClosing: This event is generally used to change the caption of the Field Chooser dialog, get and set the dialog in the TreeViewAdv or Grid controls, and cancel the closing of the Field Chooser dialog.

FieldChooserClosed: This event is handled after the Field Chooser dialog closes. This event is generally used to retrieve the caption name for the dialog, and get the dialog in the TreeViewAdv or Grid controls.

Sort Icon Placement The sort icon can now be displayed in the top, right, or left of the column header to which it belongs.

Sort Icon at Top of Header

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Sort Icon to the Left

Sort Icon to the Right

Support for BrowseOnly Property This property allows you to display a grid as read-only, preventing such editing as cursor placement, check box selection, and combo-box selection within cells.

Group Drop Area Hierarchy This feature allows users to display items in the group drop area in a hierarchical order. Hierarchical grouping enables the following interactive features in the GridGrouping control:

• Dynamically remove columns from the grouping area. • Switch the tree line placement between the top and bottom of hierarchy levels. • Resize the group drop area dynamically up to the last level of the hierarchy. • Paint the tree lines with desired colors.

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Hierarchical Grouping with Tree Lines on Bottom

Enter Key Navigation Full support has been provided for cell navigation via the Enter key. When Enter is pressed, the current cell selection can be moved in any direction by customizing the Enter key behavior. Previously, pressing Enter would only move the current cell selection to the right.

The following behaviors can be used for navigating the current cell selection when the user presses Enter:

• GridDirectionType.Left—Moves the current cell selection left. • GridDirectionType.Up—Moves the current cell selection up. • GridDirectionType.Down—Moves the current cell selection down. • GridDirectionType.Top—Moves the current cell selection to the top row index of the

current column. • GridDirectionType.PageUp—Moves the current cell selection up a page. • GridDirectionType.PageDown—Moves the current cell selection a page down. • GridDirectionType.TopLeft—Moves the current cell selection to the first cell in the grid

(top row, first column index). • GridDirectionType.RightBottom—Moves the current cell selection to the last cell in the

grid (bottom row, last column index). • GridDirectionType.MostLeft—Moves the current cell selection to the first column of

the current row. • GridDirectionType.MostRight—Moves the current cell selection to the last column of

the current row. • GridWrapCellBehavior.WrapGrid—Moves the current cell selection to the next row or

next column whenever the end of the row or column is reached. This behavior is available for the GridDirectionType.Left, GridDirectionType.Right, GridDirectionType.Up,

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GridDirectionType.Down, GridDirectionType.PageUp, and GridDirectionType.PageDown behaviors.

Dynamic Cell Merging This feature enables cells to be merged dynamically based on the cell values. The merged state will be preserved after any dynamic change such as sorting or grouping.

Merged Cells after Sorting

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Merged Cells after Grouping

Essential BI PivotGrid

Word, Excel, and PDF Export The PivotGrid control can be exported as a Word document, Excel worksheet, or PDF document. The visual style of the grid will be preserved after exporting.

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Pivot Grid Exported to Excel

Pivot Grid Exported to Word

Pivot Grid Exported to PDF

Print Option A print option has been implemented in the PivotGrid control to provide users a preview of the printed grid's contents. Any formatting or resizing of rows and columns in the original PivotGrid

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will be reflected in the printed document. This feature allows users to print the header and footer as well.

Pivot Grid in Print Preview

Essential QTP Add-On

SwfConfig Utility With the SwfConfig utility, users can easily configure the SwfConfig.xml file in HP QuickTest Professional automatically. To configure this file, the location of the Essential QTP Add-On assemblies and the product version have to be given in their respective text boxes. Clicking Check & Configure will automatically configure the SwfConfig.xml file to HP QTP.

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Configuring the SwfConfig.xml File

Essential Tools

Windows 8-Style Tile Control The Windows 8-style Tile control allows you to implement an interface like the Windows 8 Start Screen in a Windows Forms application. Tiles can be dragged to different positions, live tiles can be updated with changing content, and applications can be opened with just a click.

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Windows 8 Tile Control

Clock Control This fully customizable Clock control lets you modify its hands, borders, lines, and color scheme. Also, its background image can be changed or made transparent.

Customizable Clock Controls

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Windows 8 Theme Support With Windows 8 theme support for all Windows Forms controls, you can apply customizable, modern styling to all your user interfaces. Even the Ribbon control can be updated with Office 2013 styling.

Windows 8 Styling

Windows 8 Ribbon

Essential PDF Viewer

Support for Hyperlinks Originally, hyperlinks in PDF documents were displayed as plain text in Essential PDF Viewer for Windows Forms. This feature provides clickable hyperlinks that open the link in the user's browser.

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Hyperlink in a PDF Document