.NET Windows Forms Controls | ComponentOne Studio® for WinForms

Over 65 .NET Windows Forms controls, including the ones you can't get anywhere else. ComponentOne Studio^® for WinForms controls come packed with smart, code-free designers, endless built-in features, superior flexibility, and the outstanding assurance that these controls will stand the test of time.

Why use Studio for WinForms?

Best Selling Grids in the Market

Since 1991 ComponentOne has been offering two award-winning grids for creating Windows Client applications: FlexGrid and True DBGrid. Each is designed to give you the best performance and features for different types of applications. Both grids offer many out-of-the-box features like filtering, hierarchical data-binding, grouping, printing, and exporting to Microsoft Excel without any additional coding required. See a comparison.
All-in-one Reporting Solution

With a rich object model for generating reports, several UI controls for previewing, and a report designer for creating and designing reports, Reports for WinForms is your all-in-one reporting solution. Generating cutting-edge reports for your .NET applications has never been easier. You can even integrate your existing reporting solutions (SQL Server, Access, Crystal) into your applications.
Mimic Popular Microsoft UIs and Layouts

Replicate popular interfaces as seen in Microsoft Office and other programs using Studio for WinForms controls. For example, provide a docking UI similar to Visual Studio using DockingTab, create an appointments calendar similar to Outlook with Scheduler, and deliver a complete Office 2010 menu system using Ribbon. These customizable controls can be easily modified to perfectly fit your application.
Advanced Charting Made Easy

Chart for WinForms comes packed with all the charting functionality you need. You get over 80 chart types, designers for code-free development, flexible and customizable charting elements, visual effects, end-user interaction, advanced mouse-tracking capabilities, built-in analysis features and more. ComponentOne is also the only vendor to provide real 3D surface and contour charts.
Smarter Design-time Technology

Studio for WinForms includes ComponentOne SmartDesigner^® Technology that allows you to set the components most common properties and features without leaving the design surface. Set up your entire interface using the design-time wizards, property dialogs, smart tags, and context-sensitive toolbars provided by our smart design-time technology.
500+ Unique Samples

Studio for WinForms stands out from the pack with over 500 unique samples. These samples (C# and VB.NET), which install alongside the controls, show how to do all of the common tasks associated with each control to ease the learning curve.

What's Inside?

What's New in 2013 v1?

2013 v1 Now Available! Download the 2013 v1 update. In the 2013 v1 release, Studio for WinForms includes enhancements to popular controls as well as a new TileControl. The new tile control enables developers to achieve a Windows 8 look and feel in desktop applications.

TileControl

The new TileControl for WinForms allows you to develop desktop applications with a Windows 8 application look and feel. Using the TileControl, you can create automatic or manual tile layouts with touch and keyboard navigation support.

Reports

Reports for WinForms enhancements include:

With C1ReportViewer, you can view your C1PrintDocuments in an easy-to-use, standalone application.
Ability to stretch rendered barcodes so that they fit any report design format. Barcodes rendered in the reports can have their width adjusted to the look and feel of the overall report design.
Improved the rendering of dashed lines in PDF.
Quicker report generation with the ability to now choose which medium to use to provide reference graphics objects, scan specific printer or your screen.
Performance improvements and lesser memory consumption.
Added the Print method to C1Reports which allows you to print directly from the C1Report object.

Editor

New comments feature in Editor for WinForms. Comments, similar to Microsoft Word comments, can be added to text.

GanttView

Added new properties (FirstMonthOfFY and UseStartingYearForFY) to C1GanttView and the Schedule objects, which enable you to specify the first month of the fiscal year and the calendar year when the fiscal year starts.
Can now show Progress lines for individual tasks, which allows end-users to better monitor tasks that are ahead or behind schedule.

Scheduler

With the Scheduler control, you can now view the next seven days schedule right from the context menu. This is only visible when not in the timeline view.

For the complete technical details of enhancements, improvements and breaking changes, check out the latest release notes for 2013 v1.

What's New in Prior Releases?

Take a look at Studio for WinForms's release history to find out what's new in previous releases.

Features and Highlights

65+ .NET Components and Controls

Studio for WinForms adds over 65 components and controls to your Visual Studio toolbox. These controls not only fill the gap with what's missing in the standard toolkit, but they add more features, functionality, and better performance over their existing counterparts.

Innovative InputPanel Control

ComponentOne InputPanel™ for WinForms is the new paradigm to create and maintain data-entry forms. It is a panel that can be placed on a Windows Form to help developers create powerful data entry applications. Developers define what input fields they would like to expose using any combination of the nineteen native data input controls provided or any third party .NET control. Or simply connect the InputPanel for WinForms to a data source, select the record set, and an input control for each field is automatically created for you.

Best-selling Grids in the Market

Since 1991 ComponentOne has been offering two award-winning grids for creating Windows Client applications: FlexGrid and True DBGrid. Each is designed to give you the best performance and features for different types of applications. Both grids offer many out-of-the-box features like filtering, hierarchical data-binding, grouping, printing, and exporting to Microsoft Excel without any additional coding required. See a comparison.

Microsoft Excel Support

Develop applications that exceed Microsoft Excel and give your end-users the customized solutions they need. Both ComponentOne FlexGrid™ and ComponentOne True DBGrid™ offer many Excel-like features, such as splits, filtering, keyboard navigation, cell selection modes, and Visual Styles. Import Excel files into FlexGrid and export both datagrids to either XLS or XLSX (Open-XML) formats. Plus, with ComponentOne Excel™ for .NET, you can load, generate, and save spreadsheets using this .NET object model for total control and Excel integration.

All-in-one Reporting Solution

With a rich object model for generating reports, several UI controls for previewing, and a report designer for creating and designing reports, Reports for WinForms is your all-in-one reporting solution. Generating cutting-edge reports for your .NET applications has never been easier. You can even integrate your existing reporting solutions (SQL Server, Access, Crystal) into your applications.

Out-of-the-box Scheduling Solutions

The powerful scheduling and calendar components included in ComponentOne Scheduler™ enable you to build fully functional Microsoft Outlook-style scheduling applications quickly – with virtually no code.

Mimic Popular Microsoft UIs and Layouts

Replicate popular interfaces as seen in Microsoft Office and other programs using Studio for WinForms controls. For example, provide a docking UI similar to Visual Studio using DockingTab, create an appointments calendar similar to Outlook with Scheduler, and deliver a complete Office 2010 menu system using Ribbon. These customizable controls can be easily modified to perfectly fit your application.

Microsoft Office Visual Styles

All of our visual controls are packaged with Visual Styles based on the Microsoft Office Suite. Create applications that look and feel just like popular desktop applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and even Visual Studio.

Advanced Charting Made Easy

Chart for WinForms comes packed with all the charting functionality you need. You get over 80 chart types, designers for code-free development, flexible and customizable charting elements, visual effects, end-user interaction, advanced mouse-tracking capabilities, built-in analysis features and more. ComponentOne is also the only vendor to provide real 3D surface and contour charts.

Handle More Data, Faster

Replace the standard ADO.NET technology with the innovative virtual mode technology supported in ComponentOne DataObjects™ for .NET, and experience increased performance when using large datasets.

Add Spell-Checking

Studio for WinForms includes the fastest spell-checker control on the market, ComponentOne SpellChecker™, averaging over 400,000 words per second. Add spell-checking to virtually any editable UI control in your application, and with our 22 international dictionaries localization is not a problem.

Embed Context-sensitive Help

Embed Help files in WinForms applications with the unique ComponentOne DynamicHelp™. Map help topics to various actions within your application to deliver appropriate help content to the end-user. This type of Help system is available in applications such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, and ComponentOne Doc-To-Help®.

Smarter Design-time Technology

Studio for WinForms includes ComponentOne SmartDesigner® Technology that allows you to set the components most common properties and features without leaving the design surface. Set up your entire interface using the design-time wizards, property dialogs, smart tags, and context-sensitive toolbars provided by our smart design-time technology.

Support for .NET 4.0

Studio for WinForms controls support .NET 4.0 in both full and client profile mode, as well as .NET 3.0, 3.5 and 2.0.

Right-to-Left Support

Studio for WinForms controls support right-to-left (or RTL) layouts for world-wide globalization. This feature is commonly required for Arabic and Hebrew cultures.

500+ Unique Samples

Studio for WinForms stands out from the pack with over 500 unique samples. These samples (C# and VB.NET), which install alongside the controls, show how to do all of the common tasks associated with each control to ease the learning curve.

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