The grid includes a set of powerful, modular built-in editor controls that are used as the grid's default cell editors and viewers and which can also be used outside of the grid.

Unique Innovations

• Combinability/modularity: the ability to embed controls into one another to create flexible, innovative new controls 
• Fully visual approach: powerful designers help make development faster and easier 
• Dropdown feature: any Windows Forms control can dropdown any other control, allowing for absolute flexibility and innovation 
• Extensibility: all controls can be extended to implement custom features, appearance, and behavior 
• Themes: support for Windows XP and Windows Classic themes and the ability to adapt to the current Windows theme 
• Integral resizing: forces display of the last item in its entirety 
• Tight integration with the included Input Validator control 
• Custom painting: provides more meaningful user feedback

Base Controls

• Buttons: built-in button types; embeddable in WinComboBox, WinDatePicker, WinCalendar, WinNumericTextBox, and WinTextBox; theming 
• Calculators: theming 
• Calendars: multiple or single months; integral resizing; Day mouse events; owner-drawing and custom margins; theming; key and mouse navigation; button 
• Check boxes: theming 
• Combo boxes: data binding; multiple columns; mask support; theming; image support  
• Date pickers: distinct edit and display formats; theming 
• Horizontal and vertical scrollbars: theming 
• Panels: base container for dropdown support; theming; enhanced BorderStyles 
• Numeric text boxes: support for SideButtons; enhanced BorderStyles; theming 
• Text boxes: mask support; support for SideButtons; enhanced BorderStyles

Sample Composite Controls

• Custom calendar 
• Optional textbox 
• Option picker 
• Picture viewer 
• Scrolling textbox 
• Spin edit 
• Customized WinComboBox dropdown 
• Toolbar (available in its own demo application) 
• Stretchable agenda (available in its own demo application)

.NET Technology

• Written entirely in managed C# code (source code to be available through a Blueprint subscription) 
• Object-oriented design created specifically for version 4 of the .NET framework.  (New in 2.6)
• Comprehensive documentation fully integrated into Visual Studio .NET 
• All error handling works through .NET exception classes 
• CLS compliant (Common Language Specification) 
• Does not use unsafe blocks to minimize security risks 
• Includes VB.NET and C# samples
• Full Windows Vista support