Key Features

List for WinForms includes dozens of advanced data access, data presentation, and UI features that enable developers to build intuitive, professional-looking applications. The main features of the List control are as follows.

• Flexible Data Binding
  Bound mode or unbound, populate the data seamlessly with the List control. This control easily binds with the data sources such as ADO.NET and Entity Framework, and lets you work in an unbound mode.
• Data Views
  List allows you to quickly visualize and analyze data in a meaningful way. It provides different types of data views, such as multiple lines and normal, to cater to diverse business needs.
• Excel-like Splits
  Display Excel-like splits that lets you split the list horizontally, vertically, or both. Using splits, you can split the list into two scrollable, independent panes to analyze large data portions.
• Data Translation
  Automatically translate list values into alternate text or graphics in the list. To learn more about data translation feature in List, see Data Presentation.
• In-cell Editing
  Enhance the data displayed in the list by adding a variety of in-cell objects, including bitmaps, command buttons, check boxes, and radio buttons.
• Built-in Dropdown Control
  List also includes C1Combo, which is a multicolumn drop-down list box control that provides all of the great data management features such as multiple columns and in-built sorting.
• Incremental Search
  List supports single-character matching and incremental searching that helps you find a character as you type.
• Automatic Completion
  Reduce the number of keystrokes needed for drop-down selection with the AutoDropdown and AutoCompletion properties.
• Styling and appearance
  List gives you enormous options to style and customize the appearance of the list to match your requirements. It provides various properties which can be used to apply styles to list items, splits, fields, and much more.