Advanced ListView control for C# and VB NET - Rich Data Visualization in Multiple Views

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WYSIWYG designer
Highly customizable appearance
- General color styles for checkboxes, scrollbars and control background
- Different color styles for every state of Columns, Groups and Items
- Styles can be inherited from the parent control
- Appearance of the Columns and Items can be set by custom images or color schemes
- Columns can be drawn over items
- Columns can have space between them
- Items can have space between them
- Partial or Full Transparency
- Customizable border with three shapes and control over visibility of each border side
- Office 2007 fading effect with five speed levels
- Watermarks
- Theme support
- Visual Styles
  - Vista
  - XP
  - Classic
Columns
- Every column can have header and footer
- Header of column can contain text and image
- Text of the column header and footer can be formatted by using special XML tags
- Control over border shapes, corners and visibility for the column header, body and footer
- Separate color style for each state of the column (Normal, Hovered and Selected state)
- Each column can contain text and image
- Fixing the columns to the left or right side of the control layout
- The width of the column can be fixed
- Permission over reordering the columns
- Column can be visible or hidden
Groups
- Color and format styles for each group
- Group can be expanded/collapsed
- The group header can have three different appearances
  - BottomLine
  - CenterLine
  - Gradient
Items
- Separate color style for each state of the item (Normal, Disabled, Hovered, Selected and Focused)
- Each item can contain text, image, checkbox, flag and subitems
- Text of the item and subitems can be formatted by using special XML tags
- Control over item border shapes and visibility
- Item can be visible or hidden
- Every item can be grouped
- Context Menus
- Item text is editable
Behavior
- Ability to present custom animation along with process progress during execution of any operation
- Built-in keyword search
- Built-in Sort and ability to add custom sort operations
- Advanced filtering
  - Filter can be applied for items and subitems
  - Filter can accept multiple values and performs data filtering by AND, OR criteria
  - Filter works with multiple columns
  - Filter can be applied to four properties of item or subitems: Key, Tag, Text and Value.
  - Filter can work with prefix and exact match
- Customizable ToolTips
- Multiple item selection
- Arrange items in four list view appearances
  - Details
  - List
  - LargeIcons
  - SmallIcons
- Permissions over column reordering, Drag&Drop operations, selection check, hover selection, label edit
- Advanced Drag&Drop operations
  - Predefined - items can be reordered showing the reorder position mark
  - Custom - create your own Drag&Drop operation
- Advanced sort operations
  - Predefined - columns can be sorted by the content value: String, Integer and Double
  - Custom - create your own sort operation
- XML encoding
  - Advanced formatting options by use of XML tags
  - A table based formatting of the item content, with which a complex data can be presented in a single node
  - Every content element can have their own color and format styles
  - Multiple images at different places in the single content
  - Multiple custom controls at different places in the single content
  - Content alignment for every element
  - Place various elements in paragraphs and tables
  - Content can be shown in multiple lines or paragraphs
- XML serialization
  - Support for serialization in files
  - Support for serialization in streams

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To demonstrate the possibilites and features implemented in LidorSystems components, you can download and test the following sample applications. Each sample is provided as a stand alone executable so it can be easily downloaded and tested. All samples are included with our products and are provided with complete source code.

Sample applications		Size
	Custom Controls Demostrates how custom controls can be included in IntegralUI ListView. Data is presented in advanced detail view with fixed columns to the left or right side, four custom controls are included (DateTime Picker, CheckBox, ComboBox and TextBox), column visibility, items shown in groups. Various appearances of groups, expanding and collapsing of groups.	354 KB

	Explorer Demonstrates how IntegralUI ListView control can be used to create a Windows Explorer-like application. It includes various appearances, three visual styles (Classic, XP, Vista), Advanced Drag&Drop operations, Column reordering, Sorting and Multiple selections. Among the advanced features is the XML encoding of column and item text.	361 KB

	Image Scaling See how images or icons of your files displayed with IntegralUI ListView can be rezised just by moving the size control slider. Displaying checkboxes and flags, as well as Office 2007 fading effect is also available for demonstration.	1.273 MB

Built Using

Visual C# .NET 2005
Visual C# .NET 2003

Compatible Containers

Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio .NET 2003
.NET Framework v3.5
.NET Framework v3.0
.NET Framework v2.0
.NET Framework V1.1

System Requirements

Disk Space: 9MB
Memory: 32MB
Software: .NET Framework 1.1 or higher
Operating System: Windows 2000 or higher

Can be deployed on

Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

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Below is a complete history of this product releases.

Date	Version	Description
December 15, 2009	v2.2	NEW: 8 new built-in controls which can be used as a standalone and inside list control using XML tags: CheckBox, ComboBox, DateTimePicker, ListControl, MonthCalendar, NumericUpDown, ProgressBar, TextControl NEW: Advanced filter which allows data to be filtered by multiple values using AND, OR criteria and exact or prefix match NEW: XML Serialization for controls and images NEW: Improved performance during load process NEW: ApplyFocusStyle, a property which enables/disables FocusStyle for items. Useful during multi-selection NEW: Option to create XML content with images embedded in resource files NEW: Option to navigate through subitems NEW: Events for notification when column resizes NEW: Events for notification when values of subitems changes NEW: LabelEditStyle for customization of edit box during item content editing NEW: PreserveVisiblity, a property used to preserve visibility of items when required FIX: Items with height larger than current display area of its parent control are shown FIX: Resource management optimization when using images FIX: CPU usage when animating images is optimized FIX: The appearance of underlined text is fixed FIX: With ItemHighlightType set to None or when all items are disabled, the focus item doesn't appear FIX: Column lines are no longer drawn over item content FIX: Other minor bugs
February 10, 2009	v2.1	NEW: Option for Custom controls to remain visible during scrolling NEW: Support for custom animated gifs in every item with control over animation NEW: Option to edit the subitem text during runtime NEW: Option to manually stop the fading effect FIX: Content property accepts plain text FIX: UnFormattedText property returns non-formatted text from the Content property FIX: Item content is shifted correctly during expand/scroll FIX: Every image used from a ImageList is disposed when it is no longer needed FIX: When there are more than one references to the same image object from Image, SelectedImage, LargeImage or StateImage property, the referenced image from the first object is no longer disposed by other objectsd FIX: Font style tags now can be used without problem inside the font tag FIX: EnsureVisible method now works properly and it is added to every list control FIX: Other minor bug fixes
October 15, 2008	v2.0	NEW: Improved creation of item's content with various objects: Text, Images, Hyperlinks, Custom Controls, CheckBoxes, Flags, etc. NEW: Advanced formatting options by use of XML tags NEW: A table based formatting of the item content, with which a complex data can be presented in a single item NEW: Every content element can have their own color and format styles NEW: Multiple images at different places in the single content NEW: Multiple custom controls at different places in the single content NEW: Content alignment for every element NEW: Place various elements in paragraphs and tables NEW: Ability to present custom animation along with process progress during execution of any operation NEW: Enrich the control appearance with 5 new styles for every SubItem NEW: Excel-like look and feel NEW: Built-in keyword search NEW: Built-in sorting and option to add custom sort operations NEW: Built-in check box scenario with three states NEW: Built-in controls: CheckBox NEW: Built-in drag&drop functionality for groups NEW: Customizable ToolTips NEW: Option to change the roundness of control border corner NEW: TagString property for every list control NEW: Multi-column selection NEW: SubItem Frame selection FIX: Image Editor cannot be used from control editor in VS 2005/2008 FIX: AfterSelect event is fired before firing the GotFocus event FIX: Multiple Selection in LargeIcon view doesn't select correctly the items FIX: The default behavior of Right-Click operation needs to be like in standard ListView control FIX: Column reorder, during drag&drop, is not show correctly when horizontal scrollbar is moved FIX: MessageBox shown from XML Encoding needs to be removed FIX: The MouseWheel event is not marked as handled FIX: The BeforeLabelEdit event is fired before the text is changed FIX: CursorConverter fires an error in VS 2005/2008 FIX: During editing of item label, the process cannot be canceled. Also, the BeforeLabelEdit and AfterLabelEdit events doesn't carry with them the original item text. FIX: Custom Controls are not scrolled by clicking on the horizontal scrollbar arrows FIX: During drag&drop in ListView, when groups are shown, the drop marker is not shown in correct position FIX: ItemPosColor in ListView is not applied for drop marker FIX: StyleFromParent for groups in ListView doesn' t work, because the current group style is not updated from individual group styles.
March 20, 2008	v1.2	NEW: ItemDrag event, fired during start of a custom drag&drop operation NEW: ItemMouseHover, fired when mouse cursor hovers for some time over node space NEW: ScrollPosChanged, fired when there is a change in scrollbar value NEW: ShowStateImages, property with which you can control the appearance of State Images NEW: FindItem, method for searching an item with matching text NEW: GetSubItem, method retrieves a reference to a subitem on which mouse cursor hovers NEW: Two new sample projects demonstrating the use of custom controls and drag&drop operations FIX: In LabelEdit mode, the node text editing control is shown whenever the mouse is clicked FIX: The State Image is not shown every time FIX: When the border corners are set all Squared programmatically, the border area remains unpainted FIX: The item images still occupies memory, even when they are replaced with new images FIX: Other minor bug fixes
January 9, 2008	v1.1.367	NEW: Columns in ListView and TreeListView can be autosized FIX: ItemObjectClicking event which is fired before hyperlink is clicked FIX: AfterLabelEdit event is fired during mouse up without active text editor FIX: When the bold text in nodes or items is edited, the end word is hidden in text editor FIX: The outer edge of the control does not paint under Windows Server 2003 Some other minor bug fixes
October 17, 2007	V1.1	NEW: Can contain custom controls in every subitem NEW: 4 ways to control the visibility of contained custom controls NEW: The position of vertical scrollbar can be programmatically changed NEW: Method for determining whether the item is present in the parent control display area NEW: Control over visibility of reorder mark during drag&drop operation NEW: Controls are supported under Windows Vista FIX: An event is raised when user clicks a hyperlink in the item FIX: The outer edge of the control does not paint under Vista FIX: The FocusItemChanged event will be thrown whenever there is a change in a focus node Some other minor bug fixes
June 22, 2007	v1.0	First release

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