Step 1 of 3: Setting up the Application

In this step, you begin with creating a WPF application in Visual Studio and then adding a FlexSheet control to your application.

In Design View

To add a FlexSheet to your WPF application in Design view, perform the following steps:

1. Create a new WPF project in Visual Studio.

2. Navigate to the Toolbox and locate the C1FlexSheet control icon.

3. Double-click the C1FlexSheet icon to add the control to the MainWindow. The control looks like the following:

   

In Code

To add a FlexSheet to your WPF application in Code view, perform the following steps:

1. Set the Name property of the Grid in XAML so that the control has a unique identifier to call in code. In our case, Name property of the Grid control is set to Parent, as shown in the following code:

   <Grid Name="Parent">
   </Grid>
   

2. Add the following namespaces in Code view:

   vbnet

   Imports C1.WPF
   Imports C1.WPF.FlexGrid
   

   csharp

   using C1.WPF;
   using C1.WPF.FlexGrid;
   

3. Add the following lines of code beneath the InitializeComponent() method to add the FlexSheet control:

   vbnet

   Dim flex = New C1FlexSheet()
   Parent.Children.Add(flex)
   

   csharp

   var flex = new C1FlexSheet();
   Parent.Children.Add(flex);