WinForms Tips & Tricks (July 2019)

We’ve received some great WinForms support questions this month and want to share our favorites with you. Please take a moment to review the following tickets and tell us whether these solutions (or peer suggestions) are something you’ll implement in an upcoming WinForms app.

• How to customize our WinForms Ribbon control’s Search Menu item (yes, this is a new feature - v19.1) and catch Enter key presses.
  Ticket ID: T800370
• How to display text within WinForms Grid cells while in display mode and checkboxes while in edit mode.
  
  Ticket ID: T759268
• How to display an image below text content within WinForms Grid cells (using RepositoryItemHypertextLabel).
  
  Ticket ID: T759033
• Common usage scenario: Form size change when loading PresentationCore DLL in an MVVM application.
  Ticket ID: T800072
• How to customize the layout and add new controls to our XtraDialog (and display it as a custom MessageBox).
  Ticket ID: T800075
• How to edit controls hosted in LayoutControlItems at runtime.
  Ticket ID: T753577
• How to customize our WinForms Ribbon control for MVVM WindowedDocumentManagerService, RibbonFormService. You can follow this approach to customize any other WindowedDocumentManagerService container (e.g., the RibbonForm).
  Ticket ID: T752295
• How to draw a custom Line and align it to the beginning of our WinForms Chart control’s diagram area (using built-in API).
  Ticket ID: T757396
• What's the difference between XtraReport.Print and ReportPrintTool.Print methods.
  Ticket ID: T755391
• Query Builder: Unicode characters are not displayed in data column captions.
  Ticket ID: T750829
• How to disable our WinForms Report format converter dialog (data bindings to expression bindings).
  Ticket ID: T754776
• How to change the appearance of a selected control in the End-User Report Designer.
  Ticket ID: T800652

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