C# grid control

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Introduction

This is a simple C# grid control. The control provides a way to display and edit string’s collection. When your program wants to get input from user, generally, you can put EditBox control on your form. But when you need to get a set of dates, the EditBox control is not the best choice. Do we have another choice? Try this, maybe it is appropriate for you.

The control features

• In-place edit
• Insert rows and columns
• Cell copy and paste
• Line copy and paste
• Multi-line copy and paste
• Mark a line
• Display multi-line in a cell
• Changing column width with mouse at runtime
• VS.NET IDE integration

How to use?

Simply add the control to you VS.NET Toolbox, then you can drop it to your form. That’s all, no other. Once you create an instance of this control in your form, you can add columns in IDE environment or dynamically add columns at run-time.

Properties

Type	Name	Description
Cell	ActivateCell	Return or specify current active cell
ColumnCollection	Columns	Columns collection
Font	Font
Font	HeaderFont	The header font
RowCollection	Rows	Rows collection
Bool	HasGridLine	Whether display table lines
Bool	ReadOnly

Methods

Return Type	Name	Parameter	Description
Void	AppendRow		Append a black row
Void	AppendRow	String[] val	Append a row with specified value
Void	InsertRow	Int index	Insert a row at the position that is specified by index parameter
Void	InsertRow	Int index String[] val	Insert a row at the position that is specified by index parameter and fill the cell value with val parameter
Void	ClearAll		Empty all cell content
Void	Refresh		Force grid control repaint
Void	RemoveRow	Int index	Remove the row that is specified by index parameter
Void	SetCell	Int row Int col String val	Set the value of the cell which is specified by row and col parameter to val
Void	SetCell	Int row Int col String[] val	Set the value of the cell which is specified by row and col parameter to val
String	GetCell	Int row Int col	Get the value of the cell which is specified by row and col parameters
Void	MarkRow	Int index	Draw an arrow at the left of the row specified by index

Events

Name	Description
RowSelected	When a row is selected it throws this event
ActiveCellChanged	When the ActiveCell changes, it throws this event