FlexGrid provides six built-in visual styles so that you can easily customize the appearance of FlexGrid based on any of the Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 themes. These visual styles can be accessed through VisualStyle property of the C1FlexGrid class. Apart from MS Office based visual styles, you can also set this property to Custom and System. When set to Custom, the grid does not apply any visual styles and uses the grid properties for rendering. When the property is set to System, the grid renders its appearance based on current system settings.
The property can be set using designer as well as through code. To set the property at design time, click smart tag to open the C1FlexGrid Tasks menu and select a visual style from the VisualStyle combobox. To apply visual style in the WinForms FlexGrid through code, use the code below.
FlexGrid provides built-in collection of styles for predefined cell types and states such as normal cells, fixed cells, focused cells and, so on. You can use these built-in styles at design time as well as through code. In design view, you can access these styles through the C1FlexGrid Style Editor which can be opened by clicking Styles... option in Tasks menu. This collection of styles is represented by the CellStyleCollection class which can be accessed through Styles property of the C1FlexGrid class. Each built-in style is an object of the CellStyle class and holds various properties such as BackColor, DataType, and Format.
Following code shows how to use the styles from Styles collection of the WinForms FlexGrid.
You can also add your own custom styles to Styles collection by using the Add method. For more information about how to create and apply custom styles to grid cells, see Custom Styles.
