When we started making the switch to WPF, we were able to switch to a WPF grid control with only a one-line change to each view (to change the type declaration of _lineItemsGrid).Also, we could test that certain conventions were being followed by all the forms rather than having each form build its own grid and having to test that it did it correctly, we could just test/enforce that the GridLayout builder worked properly. Testing was much easier because the GridLayout builder could embed certain controls and special tags on controls in order to highlight things for StoryTeller/Fit testing.Other benefits we gained by this approach: So we would’ve had to build a kitchen-sink type UserControl that ultimately would’ve taken us down the path of exposing much of the raw grid API to each form which was not as desirable. We considered using a grid-wrapping UserControl for this type of reuse and behavior, but it turns out that about half of the code was common among all grids and half was specific to each form. make the headers look like THIS) we changed it in one place and it affected everything. Now, when a feature came in for us to change certain styles or behavior of all the grids (i.e. OnRowDoubleClick((values) => _model.EditItem(values)) OnRowSelected((values) => _model.ViewItem(values)) AddColumn( 'Price').WithWidth(50).AlignRight().FormatValueAs( 'C4') AddColumn( 'Size').WithWidth(50).AlignRight().FormatValueAs('F4') AddColumn( 'Quantity').WithWidth(40).FormatValueAs( 'F4').AlignRight() AddColumn( 'Description').WithWidth(225) Rather than having to deal with all that code and all the potential for inconsistencies in style, behavior, etc in all the various screens in which grids would appear, we decided to wrap the bulk of the building of appearances into a fluent API that ended up looking something like this: This._lineItemsGrid.Text = '_lineItemsGrid' This._lineItemsGrid.Size = new (908, 226) This._lineItemsGrid.Name = '_lineItemsGrid' This._lineItemsGrid.Location = new (0, 0) This._ = Īppearance10.BackColor = Īppearance10.BorderColor = This._ = appearance9 Īppearance11.TextHAlignAsString = 'Left' This._ = .EntireColumn Īppearance9.BackColor = Īppearance9.BackColor2 = Īppearance9.BackGradientAlignment = Īppearance9.BackGradientStyle = Īppearance9.BorderColor = This._ = appearance6 Īppearance5.BorderColor = Ī = 'QuickType Mono' Īppearance5.TextTrimming = This._ = 1 Īppearance7.BackColor = Īppearance7.ForeColor = This._ = true Īppearance3.BackColor = Īppearance3.BackColor2 = Īppearance3.BackGradientStyle = Īppearance3.ForeColor = This._ = appearance1 Īppearance2.ForeColor = This._ = true Īppearance1.BackColor = Īppearance1.BackColor2 = Īppearance1.BackGradientStyle = Īppearance1.BorderColor = (()( this._lineItemsGrid)).BeginInit() Īppearance4.BackColor = Īppearance4.BorderColor =

Infragistics api