Introduction

VLPropertyList control provides an simple and elegant user interface for displaying and manipulating property-value pairs in a Visual Basic / Visual Studio like hierarchical property list. It provides a very simple programming interface for adding / removing categorized properties.

The control offer a variety of editor types to suite your specific requirements. It also exposes a simple mechanism to seamlessly integrate your own "in-place" editors (if you choose to write one ... of-course, we provide a sample) or dialog based editors.

Control also offers a duel view for property display. The properties can be displayed in a flat, alphabetic list, a categorized list or both in a user selectable tabbed view.

You can display and manipulate properties of COM objects with just a single line of code or use it to browse records from an ADO recordset with a single line of code.

Key Features

Complete control on colors, fonts and captions of various UI elements.
Built-in value editors for text, number (integer and floating), font, color, date, list (enums) and file name type of properties.
Dual view ... flat alphabetic and / or categorized views for properties display.
Ability to launch appropriate help for loaded properties.
Absolutely minimal coding for displaying / manipulating properties of COM objects.
Absolutely minimal coding for browsing records from an ADO recordset.
Resizable name / value columns with built-in tooltip support.
Supports multi-level categorization of properties.
Built-in support for ascending and descending sort order and events for incorporating custom sorting (allowing appropriate sorting for non-English data).
Validation event to incorporate custom validations for property value.
Keyboard support.
Extremely simple programming interface.
Integrated online help.
Comprehensive demonstration application (with source) showing the usage of the control.