Smart and Powerful WinForms Controls for Rapid UI Development

Studio for WinForms 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

ComponentOne SmartDesigner® technology 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 SmartDesigner 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.
300+ Unique Samples

Studio for WinForms stands out from the pack with over 300 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.
Unparalleled Platinum Support
From our 24-hour support response guarantee to our knowledge-rich online community, we offer unmatched support. Our customers are entitled to:
- Knowledge Base Access
- Phone Support
- Forum Support
Learn more about ComponentOne Support Services.

What's New in Studio for WinForms 2012 v1?

New Windows Forms Controls from ComponentOne

This release adds support for Visual Studio 11, a custom map field in C1Reports, and many more enhancements throughout the studio.

Reports for WinForms Enhancements

Custom Mapping Field Added to C1ReportDesigner

With the new mapping report field you can add visual maps to your reports. The custom C1Maps report field is powered by ComponentOne Maps for WPF, and gives you new ways to visualize your bound report data.

Show sales totals per country or state
Visualize which geographic areas have the most activity or revenue
Draw lines connecting different cities to show routes or responsibilities
Render KML files to show partial maps with colored regions and markers
Auto-zoom a world map to show a particular country or region
Render maps on multiple pages of the report or show a single map at the beginning or end of the report

Other Reports Enhancements

Added support for rotated text with the Field.TextAngle property.
Added support for more shape fields such as triangles, ellipses, arcs and pie shapes. Use the new Field.Shape and Field.ShapeType properties.
Added parsing of EMF+ meta files when exporting to PDF, RTF and XLS.
Report Designer application updated with Office 2010 Visual Style.

Excel for .NET Enhancements

You can now load and save CSV (Comma Separated Value) files with C1XLBook.
C1Excel now preserves cell merges when adding and removing rows or columns.

PDF for .NET Enhancements

Added parsing of EMF+ meta files when exporting PDF.

Chart for WinForms Enhancements

Axis scrollbars are now supported for logarithmic axes.

List for WinForms Enhancements

Added new property “ShowHeaderCheckBox” that determines whether a checkbox will be displayed at the top left corner to check/uncheck all of the items.

Other Enhancements

Improved text-wrapping for Japanese, Chinese and Korean text in several controls including C1Ribbon, C1SuperTooltip and C1Schedule.
Enhanced Control Explorer live demo with added C# code previewing, a docking UI and a global visual style selector for all controls.

See complete release notes and breaking changes in the 2012 v1 version history.

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.