Looking For A .Net Table Component

Question

I'm looking for a table control (aka ListView or DataGridView) that:

• Can display a series of rows as a "child" of a row - if anyone's spent any time with Access, it does this when it works out associations between rows
• will let me insert headers into the middle of the table, so I can e.g. group by a particular row and have a header above each group.
• Ideally, let me draw more than one table at once, but I can fake this with a Panel and two table controls so I'm not so bothered.

It'd be nice if it could reach the efficiency of a DataGridView - my data tables generally have a lot of rows that tend to go in all at once, and paging is not really desired in this application.

Essentially, I'm looking for a table control where I can break the table at any row and stick something else in.

Is anyone aware of something that might be suitable?

Answer 1

I believe the obout grid can do what you're asking for. There are also other third party vendors like Telerik, Infragistics and ComponentOne that all have grid controls that should do what you want. I'd recommend downloading the trial versions of each and seeing which one works best for you.

Answer 2

I promise I am in no way affiliated with DevExpress, however, having used Telerik, Infragistics and DevExpress, if you are looking for a 3rd party control, in my experience, the DevExpress controls are by far my favourite in usability, functionality and look and feel. I have not used ComponentOne, as mentioned above, so I cannot comment on them.

Answer 3

I'm actually on the other side of that one, I've used all three in various pursuits and freelance gigs and have found the Telerik controls a bit more versatile and seem to offer a bit more with their .Net 3.5 support. What do you like about the DevExpress ones more... i.e., why should I revisit them the next time one of my jobs is looking for that type of UI control suite?

Answer 4

Hi,

You can try my Grid, it's completely and can be found at www.webgrid.com.

It should meet your requirements, and the syntax is similar to GridView.

Hope it works for you.