Announcing the ExtendedDataGrid: Adding essential functionality to the default Windows.Forms.DataGrid.

Wednesday, December 31, 2003

The default System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid provided by the .NET Framework is a little bit limited in functionality. Therefore I've spent some time during my holidays building an extension to this default grid: the ExtendedDataGrid. At this point I've released a Beta version: 0.1 including these features:

Image DataColumn
Formatted Text DataColumn
LinkLabel DataColumn
Calculated field DataColumn
...

New features and probably bug fixes will come soon so if you have any comments, questions, remarks, ... please let me know. If you are intrested in the ExtendedDataGrid, you can monitor this RSS Feed of the latest news. I know all these features are available as sample, code snippet, article, ... on the web, but I just hated to implement some of them all of the time, for each project. Also, if you are planning to use this component, or if you are just intrested: let me know, your support will motivate me to make further improvements. :-)

Btw, happy new year to all of you!

10 Comments

It looks great, i already added your fead to bloglines :)

Curious to see future releases :p

David Cumps - Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:55:00 PM

very cool - keep it up...

chadb - Wednesday, December 31, 2003 4:33:00 PM

Looks cool! I'll certainly use it whenever possible.

Shorty - Wednesday, December 31, 2003 5:07:00 PM

Thx for the positive comments! Garibaldi, I used Paint Shop Pro 7 to capture the screens.

Jan Tielens - Thursday, January 1, 2004 4:34:00 PM

Does it warn and ask confirmation when deleting records? I've created my own extended datagrid with this functionality, but that's all. If your grid has this + those other thing, I gladly use yours :)

Geert Roete - Friday, January 2, 2004 3:50:00 PM

Geert, at this point: no. But if there is any sample coding available on the net that explains this feature, I could include it.

Jan Tielens - Friday, January 2, 2004 4:02:00 PM

I will send you a mail with my component included. How easy can life be :-)

Geert Roete - Friday, January 2, 2004 6:03:00 PM

To garibaldi: in the HTML Help Workshop (default installed with Visual Studio .NET) you will find a Image Editor. With the image editor you can capture screens (to place in your HTML help files or for other use)

Geert Roete - Saturday, January 3, 2004 2:12:00 PM

I'm very very interesting thanks

FOUAD - Monday, April 5, 2004 9:16:00 AM

Hello, excelente Job !

Why cant i map it to a dataset ? It gives an exception while mapping it to table name of the dataset. Thanks in advance.

Miguel - Thursday, July 8, 2004 9:51:00 AM

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