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Using other 3rd party grid controls

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Category: DevForce
Forum Name: DevForce Classic
Forum Discription: For .NET 2.0
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Topic: Using other 3rd party grid controls
Posted By: yongbum75
Subject: Using other 3rd party grid controls
Date Posted: 14-Aug-2008 at 10:13pm
My company uses both ComponentOne FlexGrid control and Infragistics UltraGrid control.  I understand that Professional version of DevForce supports Infragistics' controls but not C1's.  C1's FlexGrid control also exposes a DataSource property and I can bind a BindingSource object to that property.

All I want to be able to do is display a read-only listing that consists of several key columns from a few related tables (e.g. Employee, Order, Customer, etc) so that upon double clicking on a row user can be taken to a detail form to view/modify detail information.  I can do everything except I am not sure how to perform databinding still using DF business objects so that I can take advantage of all the good stuff that comes with DF.  For example, when the user changes something in the detail form, I would like those changes to be automatically reflected so that I do not have to manually refresh the listing form. 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks!


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Posted By: davidklitzke
Date Posted: 15-Aug-2008 at 9:53am
We don't support Component One, but we do allow you to build your own custom controls.  See the following post that shows you how to build a custom TextBox.
 
http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133 - http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133
 
You could use this example to build a custom Componenent One TextBox what would support binding to DevForce ibjects.
 
Writing a custom control for 3rd Party Grid, however, is a fairly formidable task and would take weeks, not hours or days to complete.


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