The C1TreeView control includes a smart tag in Visual Studio. A smart tag represents a short-cut tasks menu that provides the most commonly used properties in C1TreeView.

The C1TreeView control provides quick and easy access to the TreeView Designer Form and common properties through its smart tag.

To access the C1TreeView Tasks menu, click on the smart tag in the upper-right corner of the C1TreeView control. This will open the C1TreeView Tasks menu.

The C1TreeView Tasks menu operates as follows:

• Choose Data Source

  Clicking on the Choose Data Source item opens a drop-down list where you can choose an existing data source or select a new data source to bind to.

• Edit TreeView

  Clicking on the Edit TreeView item opens the TreeView Designer Form where you can quickly configure C1TreeView's elements without having to scroll through its Properties window. Here you can add, remove, and re-order C1TreeViewNodes as well as set a variety of properties defining their appearance, behavior, and more. For more information on the TreeView Designer Form, see TreeView Designer Form.

• Edit DataBindings

  Clicking on the Edit Databindings item opens the Bindings Collection Editor dialog box where you can add and remove bindings and edit properties.

• Theme

  Clicking the Theme drop-down arrow enables you to select from different built-in visual styles. See C1TreeView Themes for more information.

• Create new theme…

  The Create new theme… option opens ThemeRoller for Visual Studio. This allows you to customize a theme without leaving your development environment. To find more information on using ThemeRoller in your application, see ThemeRoller for Visual Studio.

• Use CDN

  Determines whether the control is using the CDN for the client-side reference.

• CDN Path

  The path to the CDN library you are using.

• Use Bootstrap

  Selecting the Use Bootstrap option applies Bootstrap theming to your control. To find more information on using Bootstrap theming in your application, see Bootstrap Theming.

• About

  Clicking the About item displays a dialog box, which is helpful in finding the version number of ASP.NET Web Forms Edition and online resources.

• Edit Templates

  Clicking on the Edit Templates item switches the C1TreeView control to Template Editing Mode:

  

  In Template Editing Mode, the C1TreeView Tasks menu appears with different options:

  • Display

    Selecting the Display drop-down arrow will open a list of template areas that can be customized:

    

    Select a template from this list to open that template to be edited.

  • End Template Editing

    Clicking the End Template Editing item will end Template Editing Mode and return you to the main C1TreeView Tasks menu.