devexpress-winforms-property-grid

devexpress-winforms-property-grid is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 194 tokens per session (3,263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to DevExpress PropertyGridControl, which displays and edits an object's public properties in a form similar to Visual Studio's Properties window. It can group properties, show nested objects, and edit collections through dialogs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for settings screens and object inspectors, including property categories, nested configuration objects, editable collections, search and filtering, and Classic or Office-style views.
Why use it?
It removes the need to create a separate editor for every property. The control can generate rows from the selected object and organize them for users.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the dx-winforms plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for settings screens and object inspectors, including property categories, nested configuration objects, editable collections, search and filtering, and Classic or Office-style views.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-winforms-property-grid
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add DevExpress/agent-skills --skill devexpress-winforms-property-grid
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevExpress/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-winforms, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,263 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00194 $0.03263
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01631
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00653
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00326

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2931314ec453, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devexpress-winforms-property-grid scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/dx-winforms/skills/devexpress-winforms-property-grid/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevExpress WinForms Property Grid

PropertyGridControl shows and edits the public properties of any object, similar to Visual Studio's Properties window. Assign any object to SelectedObject — the control reflects on it, auto-creates rows, and groups them by [Category] attribute. Rows can also be defined manually in code.

Two visual styles are available: Classic (tabular, Visual Studio-like) and Office (tabbed, with track bars and property markers). Both can show expandable nested objects and editable collection properties via a dialog editor.

When to Use This Skill

  • Create a settings panel or object inspector that shows an object's properties without writing individual editors.
  • Configure which properties appear, their display names, in-place editors, and formats.
  • Let users edit List<T> or other collection properties through a collection editor dialog.
  • Group properties into named categories with expand/collapse behavior.
  • Make complex object properties (e.g., DatabaseSettings, ProxyConfig) expandable so their nested fields are accessible.
  • Use the Office view with tabbed navigation and property markers.
  • Let users search/filter properties with the built-in find panel — no custom search box or toolbar needed.

Prerequisites & Installation

NuGet Package

DevExpress.Win.VerticalGrid    (or DevExpress.Win.Navigation)

Install it with dotnet add package DevExpress.Win.VerticalGrid. A valid DevExpress license is required.

Assembly and Namespace

Assembly:   DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.v26.1.dll
Namespace:  DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid
            DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.Rows
            DevExpress.XtraVerticalGrid.Events

Host Form (Recommended)

PropertyGridControl works on a plain Form. For consistent skinning/theming, hosting it on XtraForm (or RibbonForm when hosting a RibbonControl) is recommended so the control and form chrome paint with the same skin.

Before You Start — Ask the Developer

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 223 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 2931314ec453

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devexpress-winforms-property-grid is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (52 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 3,263 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.