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Why is a DataGridView so row-centric?

Why is there a DataGridViewRow.Cells property, but not a DataGridViewColumn.Cells property?

What's so important about rows that I'll never want to iterate down a column? I'm not saying that it makes it particularly difficult to do or anything, it just strikes me as oddly asymmetrical.

I'm implementing a "fill down" type behaviour, and it'd be handy is all.

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I'd say it's simply a side-effect of the fact that relational databases are also row-centric.

Dean Harding  2010-03-26 00:14:42
+1 - The *row* is the entity RDBMSs write, not the columns.
DaveE  2010-03-26 00:20:19
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In general terms, DataGridView functions to display attributes (as columns) for a list of like entities (as rows). It is not meant to emulate spreadsheet functionality.

JeremyDWill  2010-03-26 00:16:45

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