Common Features
While each layout type has its own unique customization features and end-user capabilities, they all have common features which include the following:
- For utmost UI consistency, each view can be represented using any DevExpress WPF Visual Theme.
Horizontal or vertical group arrangement.
Animated content scrolling support (see the Scrolling topic to learn more).
Animated Navigation Pane when expanding and collapsing.
Animated groups when expanding and collapsing.
Different item arrangement styles implemented using various panel controls within groups. For instance, a wrap panel control or a carousel can be used for this purpose.
Freely customizable group content. You can display a set of items or any embedded controls.
- Support for reading groups and items from a bound data source.
- Support for item selection.
- Ability to customize every aspect of the control's appearance and behavior.
- Save and restore layouts. This feature allows you to preserve group expansion states and scrolling between application runs.
- WPF and Silverlight Navbar Controls have matching interfaces that make it easy to develop applications for multiple platforms.