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Having problems nesting a datagridview....is it even possible.. I am complete newbiew to winforms as I have always devloped in asp.net

Hi All,

I am building my first meaningful app and am stuck onnesting dartagridview I think I am having problems understanding the differences between developing with asp.net and winform.

I have included a screen shot of my asp.net prototype.. http://www.lizard-design.com/screen.gifmight help me explain.

Basically I have a grid (the example shows the first 3 rows).. inthe second row downI have highlighted the whole row in green and then inside that highlighted 2 appears in blue these are nested gridview, I have no idea how to achieve this in winform I think I am so stuck in my ways with asp.net I just am doing it the wrong way.. in asp.net I would just go into html drop another grid inside the parent grid and bind the inner grids on the rowdatabound (or similar).. so my questions is this..

can i put a gridview inside another gridview in winforms if so can anyone point me in the right direction, maybe an article or something

my second problem is can i drag objects into a row in the gridview.. i have marked in purple hopefully showing the functionality in my asp.net app...can I do this in winforms.. after it is dropped i save the relationship between the dragged object and the row

Thanksin advance, any help would be appreciated.

Aaron Springthorpe Friday, June 19, 2009 4:00 PM

I think it will be exceptionally difficult to do this in WinForms with the existing controls. And no, you cannot easily embed a DataGridView inside a DataGridView.

Have you looked at WPF? It is the new library for Windows forms development and it is MUCH closer to ASP.NET.

The WPF forum is here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wpf/threads/

And a "getting started" page is here:

http://windowsclient.net/default.aspx

Hope this helps.

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