WinExplorerView Class

Displays records using one of seven styles supported by Microsoft Windows Explorer — Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large, List, Tiles, and Content. Supports HTML-CSS templates that allow you to override the default data presentation in these styles.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.WinExplorer

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraGrid.v23.2.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Win.Grid, DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

public class WinExplorerView :
    ColumnView,
    IContextItemCollectionOwner,
    IContextItemCollectionOptionsOwner,
    ISupportAsyncScrollAnimation,
    IAccessibleGrid,
    IDxHtmlDesignerDataProvider,
    ISupportCommandBindingForElements<string>,
    IDxHtmlRepositoryOwner

VB.NET

Public Class WinExplorerView
    Inherits ColumnView
    Implements IContextItemCollectionOwner,
               IContextItemCollectionOptionsOwner,
               ISupportAsyncScrollAnimation,
               IAccessibleGrid,
               IDxHtmlDesignerDataProvider,
               ISupportCommandBindingForElements(Of String),
               IDxHtmlRepositoryOwner

Related API Members

The following members return WinExplorerView objects:

• WinExplorerViewColumns.View
• WinExplorerViewStyleOptionsCollection.View

Remarks

Default Data Presentation

The WinExplorer View can emulate seven view styles supported by Microsoft Windows Explorer — Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large, List, Tiles, and Content.

WinExplorerView - Tiles Style
Records display medium images with text captions, descriptions, and optional check boxes painted at the image’s top-left corner. Check boxes are visible only when checked or hovered.

WinExplorerView - Small Style
Records display small images with text captions to the right and optional check boxes to the left. Records are arranged horizontally. Groups are placed one under another.

WinExplorerView - Medium Style
Records display medium images with text captions below and optional check boxes to the left.

WinExplorerView - Large Style
Records display large images with text captions below and optional check boxes to the left.

WinExplorerView - ExtraLarge Style
Records display extra-large images with text captions below and optional check boxes to the left.

WinExplorerView - Content Style
Records display medium images, bold text captions, and descriptions in a row. Records are arranged one under another and separated by horizontal lines. You can optionally display a check box to the left of the image.

WinExplorerView - List Style
Records display small images with text captions to the right and optional check boxes to the left. Records are arranged vertically while groups are placed horizontally, side-by-side. Groups display no collapse buttons.

Run Demo: File Manager

Run Demo: WinExplorer View (DB)

Run Demo: Context Buttons

HTML and CSS-based UI

In v21.2 and newer, you can use HTML-CSS templates to override the default data presentation of items in these styles. HTML-CSS templates allow you to create custom layouts of data fields, and display any number of data fields in WinExplorerView items.

Run Demo: HTML MainDemo – WinExplorer View

See the following document for more information: WinExplorer View.

Inheritance

Object

MarshalByRefObject

Component

BaseView

ColumnView

WinExplorerView