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Sneak peek: WinForms grid – the best keeps getting better with multi-summary footers (coming in v2011.1)

     

Today is my fifth anniversary of working at DevExpress (I started on the 15th March, 2006), and just like that very first day, I’m travelling. This time, it’s chez Microsoft where we’re learning about the New Stuff coming up in the near future.

This coming year though, more than of all those five, it seems we’ll be announcing much more functionality than ever before across all our supported platforms. Today I have a quick sneak peek for our WinForms XtraGrid control.

The grid will be gaining multi-summary footers per column in the next major release, v2011 vol.1. As usual pictures are worth a thousand words, so I’ll show you what it all means. First here’s a grid with a simple single summary row, like what you get now.

Grid with one summary rows

(Click to enlarge, as with all these images.)

Next, here’s an image showing multiple summaries in that summary row:

Displaying multiple rows

Finally, here’s an image showing how your end-user would add or remove summary fields from the summary row.

Add/remove summary fields

Stay tuned for more sneak peeks: we’re getting closer and closer to code freeze for v2011.1.

Published Mar 15 2011, 08:15 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
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Nate Laff said:

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will this functionality work with XAF? Perhaps just separating with a Semicolon in the GroupSummary property?

March 15, 2011 12:17 PM
 

Michael Thuma said:

Looks interesting!

March 15, 2011 12:43 PM
 

Luke Grews said:

ASPxGrid Team, are you watching this as well?

Can't wait... :-)

March 15, 2011 1:04 PM
 

Robert Fuchs said:

Nate: +1

March 15, 2011 1:34 PM
 

Neal said:

Looks great!  Sure would be nice if those context menus could be skinned without requiring a barmanager on a form :)

March 15, 2011 1:54 PM
 

Crono said:

How will this affect the current workaround for displaying multiple summaries? (A1101)

March 15, 2011 2:34 PM
 

Mike Falcon (DevExpress) said:

Crono:

It's always better to use native solution :).

You will have printing and exporting support.

As for kb article - workaround should work too.

March 15, 2011 3:11 PM
 

Mehul Harry (DevExpress) said:

Luke,

The ASPxGridView already support multiple summaries:

demos.devexpress.com/.../Total.aspx

And the ASPxGridView has had this feature since it was first created. :)

March 15, 2011 3:16 PM
 

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) said:

Mehul: Do I detect a whiff of "nee nah nee nah nee nah" there? :)

Cheers, Julian

March 15, 2011 3:36 PM
 

Fırat Esmer said:

Hell Yeah!

March 15, 2011 3:47 PM
 

Mehul Harry (DevExpress) said:

Julian,

Nah.

Ok, well, just a little. :)

March 15, 2011 4:11 PM
 

James Zhong said:

Exciting feature!

March 15, 2011 9:28 PM
 

Hideaki Kusaka said:

Great!!!

March 16, 2011 12:27 AM
 

Robert Fuchs said:

Again: Will this be available in XAF???

March 17, 2011 9:59 AM
 

Dennis (DevExpress Support) said:

@Robert:

Yes.

March 17, 2011 10:35 AM
 

Robert Fuchs said:

@Dennis:

Guess what, I already knew that.

I must have read this somewhere.

:-)

March 17, 2011 11:08 AM
 

Mike Falcon (DevExpress) said:

Dennis:

hmm? ;-)

March 17, 2011 3:05 PM
 

Dennis (DevExpress Support) said:

;-)

March 17, 2011 3:06 PM
 

Mark Chimes said:

Any chance the summaries will now be subject to whatever filter is set?

March 25, 2011 7:27 PM

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Julian is the Chief Technology Officer at Developer Express. You can reach him directly at julianb@devexpress.com. You can also follow him on Twitter with the ID JMBucknall.
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