MS Excel 2013 datagridview look

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Is there a way to achieve ms excel 2013 look like datagridview in visual studio ? Im interested if there is a way to use ms office libraries to use such a datagridview in my project. Because i'm building metro look like winforms appliacation and i could not achieve same effects with my datagridview, like cell sellection effect and other cool effects

Posted 9-Sep-13 3:48am

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Daniel Leykauf · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-09T04:48:00

Hi,

There is no built-in control. To achieve the Excel style you will have to override the method: OnCellPainting. In this method you can set/write the style for column and row header as well as for the datagridview cells.
Otherwise you will have to use external third-party tools.

Regards,

Daniel