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  5th January 2009

BinaryTreeListView .NET: Build version 3.6.175
  • NEW: A custom ExpandableObjectConverter TypeConverter has been written to help in visually setting up the properties (in the Visual Studio designer) for the MultiColumnDropDownWindowConfiguration type property in the BinaryTreeListViewComboBoxColumn class.
  • NEW: The BinaryCombobox column now exposes the editing control's CustomComparerImplementor property (of type IComparer) to set a custom "sorting" implementation that you can provide to let the control to sort data in columns (while in multi-column drop list mode).
  • NEW: New smaples added to demonstrate plugging-in custom sorting implementation for sorting of columns in the multi-column drop-list window for the Binarycombobox column type in the control.
  • FIX: If the datasource set to the control has only one column of data, and the control's drop-list window was set to multi-column mode, the window had an intermittent flicker/refresh problem. Now fixed.
 
BinaryComboBox .NET: Build version 2.5.150
  • NEW: A custom ExpandableObjectConverter TypeConverter has been written to help in visually setting up the properties (in the Visual Studio designer) for the MultiColumnDropDownWindowConfiguration type property in the BinaryComboBoxColumn class.
  • FIX: If the datasource set to the control has only one column of data, and the control's drop-list window was set to multi-column mode, the window had an intermittent flicker/refresh problem. Now fixed.


 

  1st January 2009

BinaryTreeListView .NET: Build version 3.5.150
  • NEW: A new property introduced in the BinaryTreeListViewColorPickerColumn to set whether to show the drop down button when the color picker cell is not in editing mode.
    At the moment the cell is painted with drop-down button in both editing as well as non-editing modes.
  • NEW: A new property ColorPickerCellDrawingStyle has been introduced to set the style for drawing the color picker cell when it is not in editing mode. The new two rendering styles being: ColorRectangleAndValue and ColorFillAndValue.
  • NEW: Two new custom column types have been introduced:
    1. BinaryExtendedTextBox column type that will let you use our BinaryExtendedText control as a built-in column type - a textbox cell with the ability to render different border styles (viz., dotted or standard), set up custom border color and more.
    2. BinaryNumericTextBox column type has been introduced to support a column cell type that has all the features of the BinaryExtendedTextBox column type (as in the point above) and additionally will ensure to take only numeric characters as input.
  • NEW: Offer: Free retail editions of some of our popular .NET components:
    BinaryTreeListView .NET customers will get the retail editions of the following of our .NET controls for free as part of the BinaryTreeListView .NET control package:
    BinaryComboBox .NET, BinaryColorPicker .NET, BinaryOffice2007ColorPicker .NET, BinaryExtendedText .NET, BinaryDatePicker .NET, BinaryTreeViewComboBox, BinaryNumericUpDown, BinaryDomainUpDown and BinaryMenuItem .NET components.


 
  BinaryPowerTabStrip .NET version 2.0.100  
  BinaryComboBox .NET: Build version 2.4.150
  • BinaryComboBox control now brings a new class library containing the BinaryTreeListViewComboBoxColumn, the Cell and the corresponding EditingControl classes that customers can use to setup advanced combobox column type in standard Microsoft's DataGridView control.
    Of course, customers using our BinaryTreeListView .NET control already enjoy this capability built-in that treelist control.


 

  24 December 2008

BinaryTreeListView .NET: Build version 3.3.179
  • NEW: Rendering optimised across the two modes - i.e TreeListView and the ListView/Grid modes.
    A new property has been introduced to let the control know what mode it is running in - i.e. is it used as an extended list view or its TreeListView mode. This setting will perform more optimised rendering of nodes drawing specific to these two modes.
  • NEW: The BinaryTreeListViewComboBox (the specialist combobox) column now lets you set up the ColumnsToDisplay property as well, apart from the HeadersToDisplay that it already supports.
  • FIX: When setting up the "Enable Adding" or "Enable Deleting" options using the Design time smart tags of the control, after it has been setup in the designer, it was resetting back to its default state every time you go back into the designer. Now fixed.


 
  BinaryComboBox .NET: Build version 2.3.150
  • NEW:Two new properties have been introduced for the control's multi-column mode.
    a. A new property CustomDropDownWindowLocationPoint to let you set whether you want the drop-down window to open from the left side or the right hand side of the control.
    b. A new property has been added to let you set a custom screen coordinate location to position the drop-down window.


 

  07 December 2008

BinaryTreeListView .NET: Build version 3.2.180
  • NEW: The control now supports (optionally) "out-of-the-box" drawing of a row's background with the "glass" style color when the mouse enters a row.
  • NEW: A new sample has been added to demonstrate how easy it is to use the "data-binding" feature of the treelistview control to display hirarchical tree-list of data.
  • FIX: When using BinaryTreeListViewDatePickerColumn, if the user cleared the datepicker cell's content (using the cell's built-in "Quick dates" context menu) and moved away from that cell and came back to it and attempted an edit operation on that cell (by F2 or double clicking on it), an exception was thrown, now fixed.


 

  23 November 2008

BinaryComboBox .NET: Build version 2.2.199
  • FIX: Fixed an issue with the control's feature of automatic adjustment of the display location of the multi-column drop list window.
  • FIX: When in AutoCompletion enabled mode AND the user hits the Home key, the control would still take the cursor to the last character of the item's text. Now fixed.


 

  16 November 2008

BinaryTreeListView .NET: Build version 3.1.123
  • NEW - The colorpicker column cell, when it is not in the "editing" mode, draws a stylish dropdown button and fills the cell text bounds using the currently selected color, and applies the color ARGB hint as the cell text.


 

  10 November 2008

BinaryTreeListView .NET: Build version 3.0.193
  • NEW - The control's TreeListView mode now supports data-binding (bound mode), apart from the un-bound mode that it already supports.
    With this feature, there is no coding required to set up the treelistview's nodes.
    Set one simple data source property, and you can represent your self-referencing data structure into the treelistview easily in just a matter of a few seconds.


 

  6 November 2008

BinaryPowerTabStrip .NET: Build version 1.2.188
  • NEW - The control now supports two rendering locations of its tab pages: Top and Bottom.
  • FIX - Minor bug fixes on some UI rendering aspects, and fine tuning for drawing tab page text using larger fonts.


 

  11 October 2008

BinaryTreeListView .NET: Build version 2.2.184
  • NEW - An new, out-of-the-box TreeListViewTreeViewComboBoxColumn column type has been introduced.
    This specialised treelistview column uses our popular BinaryTreeViewComboBox .NET .NET control as this new column's editing control.
    This column type comes useful in scenarios like when one needs to display a folder picker cell/column in the control.
  • NEW - An new, out-of-the-box TreeListViewColorPickerColumn column type has been introduced.
    This specialised treelistview column uses our popular BinaryColorPicker .NET .NET control as this new column's editing control.
  • NEW - An new, out-of-the-box TreeListViewBrowseEditorColumn column type has been introduced.
    This specialised treelistview column is useful in scenarios like where one needs to display a file picker cell/column in the control.
    You can read more on these new custom out-of-the-box tree-list view columns, here...
  • FIX - When clearing all treelistview nodes from the nodes collection in the control (especially when there are large nested nodes in the collection), an exception was thrown (although at random). Now fixed.
 
 
BinaryTreeViewComboBox .NET: Build version 2.2.138
  • NEW - A new property has been introduced to set whether to display the drop-down window's "close window" image or not.
 

  16 July 2008

New Control added:

BinaryPowerTabStrib .NET: Build version 1.1.0  Read more here...
 
 

  10 July 2008

BinaryHeaderControl .NET: Build version 2.2.184
  • FIX - In a particular scenario of having dynamically re-set the size of the control, and if the header control was in collapsed state at that point in time, then the control would not expand thereafter. Now fixed.
 
  BinaryPanelBar .NET: Build version 2.2.108
  • NEW - If the PanelBar control was docked to the Right side in the parent control, then when the control was kept in its collapsed mode and the user clicks on the collapsed container area, the container window is shown to the left side of the collapsed panelbar control (rather than its usual right side).
 
  BinaryComboBox .NET: Build version 2.2.160
  • NEW - The multi-column view now supports customising the column header text forecolor.
  • NEW - A new property introduced to set whether the control will display blank text in its text display area at the start, until the user selects an item from the drop-down list.
  • FIX - The SelectedIndexChanged event was firing twice when in a particular scenario - i.e. whenever the control's data source was reset dynamically or its ValueMember/ DisplayMember property value was changed at run-time.
 

  5 July 2008

BinaryHeaderControl .NET: Build version 2.2.173
  • NEW - BinaryHeaderControl .NET now supports two rendering modes: Default, and Office 2007 glass style. (Learn more)
  • NEW - The control now supports collapse/expand of its client area, to let you click on the header to collapse / expand the control. (Learn more)
 

  14 June 2008

General updates
  • Visualstudio Toolbox icons have been "refreshed" for all our controls.
  • Numerous samples have been added to explain in detail, each of the feature supported for our control BinaryCombobox .NET
 
  BinaryTreeviewComboBox .NET: Build version 2.2.125
  • NEW - All important properties of the control are now available in the control's design-time designer actionlist(smart tags).
    With this feature in place, the developers won't need to write a single line of code to use this control. (Learn more)
  • NEW - BinaryTreeviewCombobox now supports standard windows (3-D) display style. (Learn more)
 

  21 May 2008
BinaryComboBox .NET: Build version 2.2.100
  • NEW - More powerful sorting, grouping and complex data filtering capabilities in the multi-column display mode.
    A separate panel is made available in the multicolumn view mode, which can (optionally) be displayed for letting your advanced users to perform simple/complex queries involving filtering and grouping.
    (Learn more)
  • NEW - Can export filtered data into a CSV file format.
  • NEW - Localised strings supported when displaying busy state / no data found state messages
  • NEW - It is now possible to set color for drawing the sorting glyph in the multicolumn mode
  • NEW - It is now possible to set color for drawing the controls drop-down arrow color
 

 
26 April 2008: Build version 2.1.257

 
  BinaryComboBox .NET
  • NEW - UI enhancements to display message to indicate processing status.
  • NEW - Minor changes to natively support the control's hosting in the specialised BinaryComboBox column in our product BinaryTreeListView .NET. (Learn more)
  • NEW - All important properties of the control are now available in the control's design-time designer actionlist(smart tags). With this feature in place, the developers won't need to write a single line of code to use teh control (including for complex databinding). (Learn more)
  • NEW - Header/ Footer rendering can be optionally disabled. (Learn more)
 
  BinaryPanelbar .NET
  • NEW - All important properties of the control are now available in the control's design-time designer actionlist(smart tags). (Learn more)
  • NEW - The control now supports customising Menu item's selection background and border color. (Learn more)
  • NEW - Menuselectiondrawing aspect now changes based on the itemrendering style - i.e. the menu item selection rendering is now drawn using Office2007 style only when the control's rendering style is set to Office2007 style, otherwise it is drawn using the default style - i.e. office 2003/Visual studio 2005 style (with the alpha blended color). (Learn more)
  • NEW - Wiring up of the binarypanelbar button click event into the small/minimised "related" (base bar) button, can now be optionally switched-off.
  • FIX - Gripper color not changing at runtime, fixed.
 
  BinaryHeaderControl .NET
  • NEW - Enhanced design-time experience via design-time smart tags. (Learn more)
 
  BinarySmartbutton .NET
  • FIX - Drop-down arrow button rendering, now made more sharper.
 
  BinaryDatePicker .NET
  • NEW - Highlight dates of your choice, with special colors/formatting. (Learn more)
  • NEW - Supports out-of-the-box multiple rendering styles. (Learn more)
  • NEW - Minor changes to natively support the control's hosting in the specialised BinaryDatePicker column in our product BinaryTreeListView .NET. (Learn more)
 
  BinaryExplorerbar .NET
  • FIX - 1 pixel off border rendering of binaryexplorerpanel control when in vertical scroll mode, now fixed
 
  BinaryMenuItem .NET  
  BinaryTreeViewCombobox .NET
  • FIX - Separator character not drawn between the top node and its immediate child, now fixed.
  • FIX - An issue with the setting up of the custom close button image for the drop-down window, is now fixed.
 
  BinaryTreeListView .NET
  • NEW - The control now supports "Group header" supporting context menu. (Learn more)
  • NEW - Out-of-the-box support for customisable rendering of column and row headers and data rows. (Learn more)
  • NEW - The Control now supports even more properties of BinaryComboBox control in its BinaryComboBox type specialised column. (Learn more)
  • NEW - The control supports complex data-binding when used as Listview or as an advanced grid control, including supporting complex databinding on the specialised columns BinaryDatePicker and BinaryComboBox.
  • NEW - Keyboard support for expanding / collapsing of nodes introduced. Supported key combination is : "Shift + Left" to collapse, and "Shift + Right" to expand.
  • NEW - When a cell/row/column is set as readonly, the mouse click on the cell can be made to expand/collapse the node.
  • NEW - Property to set the UI element, at which level the keyboard based expand/collapse of nodes is to be enabled(i.e. row,column or None).
  • NEW - Support for displaying the editing control on the specialised column cells (i.e. Binarydatepicker, binarycombobox etc.) in non-editing mode. (Learn more)
  • FIX - Improvements in hosting and rendering aspects of the specialised columns: BinaryDatePicker and BinaryComboBox. (Learn more)
 
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