It would be nice to have an option to filter by name preferences properties. Something like Visual Studio does in Solution Explorer. For example, if I want to find properties that do backup, I'd type backup and see all related properties with ease.

Hi Miha,

Interesting proposal. I'll move this to New Features queue, for further discussion.

You want this in the preferences and project settings or in the project explorer?

Sorry for the awful delay. The former (vertical grid stuff, specially preferences). it might come handy in explorer as well, not sure.

This is planned for v5: a search system where you start typing and all elements matching the string typed (while you're typing) is shown, the fragment can be part of the name or the complete name. So typing 'Cust' will give the Customer entity, the Customers table, the Customer navigator and IsGoldCustomer field on Order and the Orders table.

The elements then can be used for further work, e.g. edit, create a model view etc.

We're not planning to filter the trees in project explorer and catalog explorer at the moment, the search system described above should cover what you want I think?

Partially yes, but what I am missing is search in "LLBLGen Pro Preferences" dialog as well. There is lot of properties in there. i.e. I want to see all "backup" related properties -> I'd type "backup" and booom: I see only relevant properties.

Ok, though I think that won't be in 5.0

On second thought, it might be easy through the filtering system build into the devexpress controls, have to check.

Yep, for starters something like this should do the trick.

propertyGridControl1.OptionsFind.Visibility = DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.FindPanelVisibility.Always;

In v5 we now have cut up the preferences into two sections: the real preferences which affect the designer's behavior, and a part which contains the 'new project settings', which aren't used by the designer but are used when a new project has been created. This also cuts down the list of properties listed a lot, so search isn't needed anymore (it's just 1 page of settings ) in that grid.