A good listview component for C# WinForms - c#

Does anyone know of a good listview component other than the one included with Visual Studio (as it looks kinda boring)?

Devexpress are good too. http://devexpress.com

(Quick edit missed the Winforms bit). For Winforms controls, I'd recommend Telerik.

If you want to modify the look of your form and controls try DotNetSkin. You can modify controls from existing windows themes or your own controls by modifying it.

If you want a free ListView, you should try ObjectListView, it has a LOT of features.
You better be careful about the license if you want to use it in a commercial product though. See these answers for more information about the license: here and there.

You may try Better ListView.
It has native look and feel. It also supports many nice features, like hierarchical items, multi-column sorting, data binding, three-state check boxes... the list goes on :-)
It is not a ListView wrapper, but self-contained control so it fixes all inherent flaws of .NET ListView (these are enumerated on ComponentOwl's website).

Take into account the 10Tec iGrid control:
Its main features are:
Multi-column sorting with indication in column headers.
Grouping and autofilter are also available.
"Subitems" (cells) can be edited.
Rows can have different heights.
Rows/cells can be formatted dynamically easily.
Built-in incremental search.
TreeListView mode.
No flickering and fast work with 100'000+ rows.
To find out more, start from reading this article:
Editable ListView Replacement
See also other cross-referenced articles on the site.

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Use datatemplate without listview

I would like to know if it's possible to use a data template and a list system without the listview controller on xamarin forms.
You can definitely roll your own controls that use the templating engine. It would just take a whole lot of additional work with custom renderers for each platform etc. If you want to look into that you can check out the source code for Xamarin Forms since it's open source to see how they implemented the ListView. I think the negative voting is because this is quite a broad question that doesn't have an easy answer.

Display data in a table in Universal App

I have been looking for a couple of days for a UWP control that has similar functionality as the WPF ListView, which allows me to create a table like appearance.
Is there a control like this in the UWP or not?
What I want to achieve is a SCRUM and Kanban overview for Jira Software. Maybe there are better options.
Microsoft has created an add-on control that fits this use case nicely, the DataGrid control from their community toolkit.
More details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/communitytoolkit/controls/datagrid
It supports sorting, filtering, grouping, and can even generate columns automatically from supplied data.
There is a control such as that and it is called listview.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.controls.listview.aspx
Maybe you could use GridView as well, there is a nice short tutorial on:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-10-development-for-absolute-beginners/UWP-040-Data-Binding-to-the-GridView-and-ListView-Controls

Where to start with building a blotter

I need to build a blotter using csharp and WPF. Basically, like an excel sheet but would have the capability of customizing backgrounds of each cell or setting the value of each cell. But not sure where to start.
If anybody build blotters in csharp or WPF, a few pointers on where to get started would be great. If you can suggest some good open source blotters that I can copy and enhance, that would also be great.
I cannot use standard data grids as they lack many of the capabilities I am looking for.
I know windows forms and applications related to that which have standard controls but to create cells that are editable/customizable like excel, not sure where to start....
Take a look at the Adaptable Blotter (www.adaptableblotter.com).
It includes all the functionality that you seek and works with a number of different WPF grid controls, both vendor and open source. There is a single set of screens giving you advanced search, flashing cells, bulk editing etc but with individual implementations for each underlying grid.
You can use a UniformGrid to create the Grid. You can put Textboxes or even more advanced UserControls into the cells.

Free advanced dropdown list control (Windows Forms .Net)

I'm looking for a free advanced dropdown list control. Basically something that provides a dropdown list which can have icons, and multiple bits of text per entry (preferably one large bit of text and then a smaller bit of text underneath).
Anyone know of such a control? I've had a look but can't seem to find one.
If I can't find it I spose I'll have to create it myself. I've done a bit with custom controls but I'm not really sure how I'd go about this...how would one take a ComboBox or something but make each entry completely graphically customisable?
Any links to controls, or hints on how to create one would be greatly appreciated.
it's not a drop down list, but I think you can use the knowledge here to do the same thing
I haven't found anything on the free side of WinForms that lets you do this. If you have green fields, however, WPF gives you what you're looking for out of the box.
Check out Krypton Toolkit which is free.

alternative to DataGridView in Win API

Somewhere on net on one Blog I read a sentence that is "DataGridView something like Boeing 777, but what is goal when I do not know how to fly.
Before I goo deep in creating my projects I wanna know is there alternative for DataGridView in C#.
Something like jQuery in WEB api.
The favors things which I am looking for is that is simple for using, if its posibile to be freeware and looks smoth and modern.
Best regards
Admir
If you want to fly one person across town you can learn to fly a Piper Cub. If you want to fly hundreds across an ocean you need to learn to fly a 777.
There are many ways of displaying data in WinForms applications; which one is best for you depends on what you're trying to do. If you want to show a fixed, non-editable, non-scrollable list of data you can use a DataList; simple and limited. If you want to add scrolling you can output the data to a scrolling textbox.
If you want to handle a scrolling grid of multiple rows with multiple, resizable, editable columns you will need to move to a DataGrid or DataGridView.
There are many alternatives to DataGridViews; simpler controls provide fewer features and more functional controls are more complex.
I have implemented the datagridview extensively as an unbound control in a windows forms project using Visual Studio 2008. Looking back, implementing this control has consumed a large amount of time, mostly because it is loaded with bugs and peculiar behavior that should have been fixed rather than just 'documented'. A good data grid control is essential to any application of substance. I would recommend looking for a third party alternative from a company that is more interested in getting it right rather than just getting something out there.
The DataGridView is perfectly easy to use without going too deep. If all you want to do is display data in a grid, create a DataGridView and turn off features like adding and editing rows. The fact that it's got all of these incredibly complex features is really only an issue when you start needing to use them - and in that case, you'll be glad you're using it.
DevExpress has a really good gridview.

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