Application Development Using Visual Basic® and .NET

DataGrid Control

The DataGrid control is a data-bound control that automatically displays a list of information in a series of rows and columns, as in a spreadsheet. A data-bound control is self-populating; that is, it fills itself with data when told the source of the data.

A DataGrid control must be bound to a data source using the DataSource and DataMember properties at design time or the SetDataBinding method at run time. Typically, a DataGrid control is bound to a DataTable, DataView or DataSet class (discussed in Chapter 13). However, you can also bind a DataGrid control to any class that implements the IList interface.

The ArrayList class, which we discussed in Chapter 6, implements the IList interface. In the GridDemo example, we will ...