WindowsFormsSettings.ColumnFilterPopupMode Property

Gets or sets the default display mode of column filter dropdowns in all GridControls, TreeLists and PivotGridControls in the current application.

Namespace : DevExpress.XtraEditors

Assembly : DevExpress.Utils.v25.2.dll

NuGet Packages : DevExpress.Utils, DevExpress.Wpf.Core

csharp

public static ColumnFilterPopupMode ColumnFilterPopupMode { get; set; }

Public Shared Property ColumnFilterPopupMode As ColumnFilterPopupMode

Property Value

Type	Description
ColumnFilterPopupMode

A value that specifies the default display mode of column filter dropdowns in all GridControls and TreeLists in the current application.

Available values:

Name	Description
Default

Equivalent to the ColumnFilterPopupMode.Excel setting.

| | Excel |

Grid and TreeList columns display Excel-style filter menus.

| | Classic |

Grid and TreeList columns display classic drop-down filter menus.

Remarks

Column filter dropdowns (within the GridConrol and within the TreeList) can be presented using the following display modes (the first two modes are also called classic):

Regular list,
Calendar (for date-time columns) — a window with an embedded calendar along with predefined filter items for quick selection of common date intervals,
Checked list,
MS Excel-inspired style.

The style of column filter dropdowns can be set at three levels.

Application level.
Control level.
Column / field level.

The WindowsFormsSettings.ColumnFilterPopupMode property can be set to one of the following values:

Default - Enables the Excel mode for the v17 version of DevExpress components and later; for earlier versions, enables the Classic mode (see the Version Compatibility topic to learn about default values of various properties according to the selected DevExpress installation version).
Classic - Sets classic (regular, checked, or calendar depending on settings or data type) filter dropdown styles as default,
Excel - Sets the MS Excel-inspired filter dropdown style as default.

For more details on Excel-inspired filter dropdowns, see the GridControl’s Excel Style Filter DropDown and TreeList’s Excel Style Filter DropDown topics.