DataGridView Extension extends the standard DataGridView control, without inheritance, with functionalities such as Export (MS Excel, HTML and PDF), Print, Search, Themes, Security and many others. Its design time support allows integration in any existing application just in a few seconds without even single line of code.

The installation contains DataGridView Extension assemblies, Demo application, Developers guide, End user manual and C# and VB.NET Sample projects. Online technical support is available in the forum area where you can ask your questions, watch videos or share your experience with the other members.

The API of DataGridView Extension allows you to use, customize and extend the available functionality according to your specific needs.

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DataGridView Extension Features:
End-User Features:
Powerful exporting of data and visualization to Excel spreadsheets, Html and Pdf documents.
Print functionality.
Theme management. Development of custom themes and styles for DataGridView.
Intelligent searching capabilities.
Change various appearance settings of the DataGridView control easily: background color, border style, selection colors, fonts, alignments, etc.
Easy management of DataGridView behavior: columns reordering, resizing of rows and columns, etc.
Columns management - change styles, hide or show, freeze and unfreeze columns. Custom column style - formatting, alignment, colors, etc.
Formatting of all standard types of values - the behavior closely resembles that of Microsoft Excel.
Advanced selection techniques: column, row, smart and multi selection modes.
Automatic persistence of all DataGridView appearance and behavior settings and their changes (example: columns widths, ordering, headers width and height).
End-user manual.
Developer Features:
Extends the standard DataGridView control, in single line of code without requiring inheritance.
Easy integration in existing applications both runtime and design time.
Extendable format exporting API. In version 1.1 the DataGridView Extension component is able to export the grid data in Excel, HTML and Pdf formats. Through DataGridView Extension API developers are able to implement their own data exporters. The exporter dll is XCopy deployed - you have just to copy the dll in the folder where resides the DataGridView Extension assembly.
The DataGridView Extension comes with a set of custom column types (DateTime picker and Numeric Up/Down columns) that will provide additional functionalities to the DataGridView itself.
All settings are persisted to an XML file which allows further processing.
All features are programmable through the API (example: themes management, filtering and sorting).
Security features – the developers can define which features of the extensions should be accessible for the end-user and which not. The security can be defined for all grids and all columns and also per grid and per column.
Developer’s help.