A new custom MonthCalendar has been added to the VisualHint's products and it is also free when used standalone.

As promised last week, here is a screencast showcasing the features of the new TimeSpan editor and especially its powerful format string letting you input a duration the way you want.

At last there is now an editor to enter a duration with the format you want and with the usability brought by Smart FieldPackEditor.Net. It can be used standalone, in the DataGRidView and in the PropertyGrid.

The default PropertyGrid control provided by the WinForms collection doesn’t support a read-only functionality. Setting the PropertyGrid as read-only might be useful if you want to allow your users to fully inspect a rich property object exposed by the PropertyGrid without the possibility to change ...

... or how to theme the PropertyGrid with the free Krypton Toolkit.

A screencast about the synchronization of 2 PropertyGrids and the source code of the synchronizer class.

This screencast shows how the Microsoft PropertyGrid fails at targetting multiple instances and how Smart PropertyGrid.Net solves the problem.

VisualHint publishes two screencasts to show how Smart PropertyGrid.Net 2.5 handles multiple target instances better than the Microsoft PropertyGrid.

The easiest way to validate a certain property is using the PropertyValueChanged event.

Here is a preview of what value validation will look like in Smart PropertyGrid.Net. It merges a reworked validation engine (validation will be done against TypeConverters and custom validator classes) and a new compatibility with the free VisualTips product.

A great hack for a missing feature of the MS PropertyGrid. The site is also a good list of resources for who often works with this component.

Microsoft people, look at this, and please, add TAB browsing in the PropertyGrid embedded in Visual Studio.