DataGrid: Tailor Your DataGrid Apps Using Table Style and Custom Column Style Objects

Posted: Jul/15/2003 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: .NET - .NET Framework Views:115 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

One of the most enduring challenges in writing user interfaces is figuring out how to display large amounts of data efficiently and intuitively without bewildering the user. The problem becomes particularly thorny when the interface must reflect hierarchical relationships within the data that the user needs to modify. The Windows Forms DataGrid control gives developers a powerful and flexible tool to meet this challenge. This article explains its basic operations and shows how to extend the DataGrid to display columns of data in an application-appropriate manner.Kristy SaundersMSDN Magazine August 2003

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