DataGridView

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Availability 3 See also 4 Samples of use 5 Limitations and workarounds 6 SDK Version highlights 7 Rererences 7.1 Forum discussons 7.2 Other references

Overview

The DataGridView control is functionally equivialent to the Windows Forms DataGridView control.

Availability

The DataGridView is one of the Out of the Box standard controls, which means it is free and available in all Visual WebGui versions.

See also

• VirtualDataGridView

Samples of use

• Faking Password character and loading image in CellFormatting
• DataGridViewImageColumn feeding image in CellFormatting
• Population of DataGridViewComboBoxColumn
• Population of DataGridViewLinkColumn without a DataSource
• Editing Customers in NorthWind using DataGridView and SQL database

Limitations and workarounds

• DataGridView in SilverLight can show only 22 columns - limit being raised to 50 later
• Drag and Drop is not supported in DataGridView
• Using SetFocused (InvokeFocusCommand) to keep focus on DataGridView while setting CurrentCell

SDK Version highlights

• 6.4.0 Beta1 implemented a custom OwnerDrawn ComboBox feature for DataGridViewComboBoxColumn type

Rererences

Forum discussons

• Use BindingSource when binding to object datasources
• Simulating a footer by setting the last row as frozen
• Placing a CheckBox in column header to simulate (de)Select all
• Changing the definition of initial sort order direction when clickin on column header
• DataGridViewImageColumn and Entity List as datasource
• Recommended maximum number of cells shown in browser at the same time is about 500
• Implementing row number labels on a DataGridView rows
• Customizing cells with controls of your choosing using Cell.Panel of type DataGridViewCellPanel (6.4.0 Release d and later)
• Keyboard navigation setting CurrentCell with help of SetFocused (InvokeFocusCommand)
• Obtaining thumbnail versions of images to put in DataGridViewImageColumn cells
• Showing PopUp relative to clicked cell in the DataGridView

Other references

• MSDN Windows Forms DataGridView documenation
• Various handy codesnippets for Windows Forms DataGridView