Hi,
We really like the default functionality provided by the property grid using reflection, but we need some more customization.
1) For example in a normal text property we want to add a "..." button to bring up a bigger editor with more custom functionality.After researching this I decided this needed to be done without reflection so that we can provide the functionality mentioned above along with other customizations. Was my conclusion correct? Could I instead accomplish this type of thing using reflection?
2) With properties that are actually collections of values, the ActiPro PropertyGrid has a really nice feature to add and remove values when I specify CollectionDisplayMode PropertyGrid dependency property to "EditableInline". With reflection there is hardly any customization allowed here that I could discover such as showing the name of the sub-property rather than just [0], [1], [2], etc. Perhaps there is an attribute to help with this? If there is I would also need a way to specify validation for these sub-property values -- some are text, some are numbers, somre are dates, some are boolean, etc. Without reflection, I may need to implement much functionality myself. To begin with, I would like to use the same green plus "+" and red minus "-" graphic images which are included as resources in one of the ActiPro Dlls. How can I locate those ActiPro images? Is this documented somewhere? For example the ActiPro images for "Pin in" and "Pin out" are located at "pack://application:,,,/ActiproSoftware.Ribbon.Wpf;component/Products/Ribbon/Images/PinIn16.png" and at "pack://application:,,,/ActiproSoftware.Ribbon.Wpf;component/Products/Ribbon/Images/PinIn16.png" respectively. Because my company has licenses to use these Dlls, we can use the images therein -- provided I can find them.
I am certain there is more custom functionality we will need with this.
