datagrid too week?

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nick - 18 Sep 2004 05:33 GMT

It seems the datagrid in windows form is not powerful, even for format. Is
it the only way to create a rich formatting datagrid that using dynamically
created controls in a panel? sounds a lot of work.

Btw, how to capture the insert/delete/update event when using datagrid?
(because I need customized sql statement to access the database.

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ClayB [Syncfusion] - 18 Sep 2004 08:38 GMT

It does take significant coding to vary cell by cell the fonts and colors
used in the Windows Forms DataGrid. The upcoming VS2005 release has a
DataGridView class that is much easier to use.

Here is a link that shows how you can use a derived column style to vary
things now.
http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/winforms/search/927.asp

To catch the insert/delete/update, you can subscribe to the
CurrencyManager.ListChanged event.

CurrencyManager cm = (CurrencyManager)
this.dataGrid1.BindingCOntext[this.dataGrid1.DataSource,
this.dataGrid1.DataMember];
cm.ListChanged += new ListChangedEventHandler(cm_ListChanged);

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> It seems the datagrid in windows form is not powerful, even for format. Is
> it the only way to create a rich formatting datagrid that using
> dynamically created controls in a panel? sounds a lot of work.
>
> Btw, how to capture the insert/delete/update event when using datagrid?
> (because I need customized sql statement to access the database.

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nick - 18 Sep 2004 23:28 GMT

Thanks, any example? Still not clear to figure out how "insert", "delete" be
triggered by the ListChangedEventHandler....

> It does take significant coding to vary cell by cell the fonts and colors
> used in the Windows Forms DataGrid. The upcoming VS2005 release has a
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>> Btw, how to capture the insert/delete/update event when using datagrid?
>> (because I need customized sql statement to access the database.

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