Cutting Edge: A New Grid Control in Windows Forms

摘要

Grid controls are essential in many of todays apps. Until now, though, most developers using Visual Basic~® have had to buy third-party components to get an effective, easy to use grid component. The Windows~® Forms DataGrid turned out to lack too many features for the average developer. Third-party grid controls are often more feature-rich than anything found in a system framework like the Microsoft~® .NET Framework. But for in-house and personal applications that don't need a professional quality control, the new Data-GridView in the forthcoming .NET Framework 2.0 is a viable alternative. The DataGridView control is the successor to the Windows Forms DataGrid version 1 .x. Once you have dropped the control onto a Windows Form, you'll see the popup window shown in Figure 1. You can declara-tively set a number of features—add new rows, edit and delete the current row, reorder columns, bind the control to its data, and style it as needed.