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Introduction
The PropertyGrid control in the .Net environment is one of the controls the most difficult to grasp. Resources are spread all over the web and you will be lucky if you find a solution to your particular problem involving very precise keywords. This web site wants to gather all known and less known resources about this powerful control and on various subjects. Tags will help classify this amount of informations to help you search what you need. You are very welcome to consult this list, come back to see the last additions (rss feed also available) and submit the resources you found or wrote yourself.
This site also features Smart PropertyGrid.Net, a commercial package that proposes the most powerful alternative to the Microsoft solution. You may want to explore its features and see if it is more suitable for your end-users in terms of customization, flexibility, usability and accessibility.
Getting the most out of the Propertygrid
This article, hosted at MSDN, will give you all the basics to understand the classes involved in the management of the PropertyGrid. It reviews all the things you should know, from the use of attributes to the TypeConverters. This reading is a must. Read more...
Globalized property grid
Based on a very practical example where the author's goal is to localize, thanks to the use of resources, the property labels and descriptions, you will again learn a lot about the ICustomTypeDescriptor interface. Read more...
Dynamic content for the combobox
This article shows how to setup a combobox based on a mapping of pairs. While the article is written for Smart PropertyGrid, it is very useful to get the same result in the Microsoft PropertyGrid. You will simply replace the last section by another technique, like requesting the integers and displayed strings through the target instance accessible with the ITypeDescriptorContext parameter of the TypeConverter's methods. Read more...