Yesterday we posted information on performance enhancements that have been made to PropertyGrid for WPF that will appear in the future WPF Studio 2010.2 version. Today I’d like to show a new feature that has also been added for that version.
Overview
Nested categories, meaning categories within categories, are available when setting the new PropertyGrid.AreNestedCategoriesSupported property to true and can be used with either the SelectedObject(s) or Properties properties.
Nested categories are created by specifying the “path” to the desired category, versus the actual name. For example, using a category name of One\Two would create a root category titled One, which contains a nested category titled Two.
The screenshot above shows numerous nested categories within the PropertyGrid.
Levels
Any level of nested categories can be created, with each name separate by a backslash (\). If a backslash is required in any of the categories, that part can be wrapped in single or double quotes. For example, One\’Two\2’ would create a root category titled One, which contains a nested category titled Two\2.
Grouping
All properties and categories will be combined, based on their “path”. For example, if two properties both define a category of One\Two, then both properties will be located in the category titled Two. If one property defines a category of One\Two and another property defines a category of One, then the category titled One will contain the category titled Two and the latter property (and the former property will be contained in the category titled Two).
Summary
As mentioned above, these updates will be in the future WPF Studio 2010.2 version.